James Cameron has admitted that the Avatar sequel is not going to happen straight away.
The sci-fi epic has broken through the $2 billion barrier to become the biggest grossing movie of all time and there are already calls for a second.
And while Cameron has hinted that a second movie was already in the pipeline he admits that he would like some 'breathing room' before returning to the world of Pandora.
In an interview with Collider the filmmaker said: "I think the breathing room is a given. The fastest we could imagine making another film is three to three and a half years, from the moment we start, and we’re not planning on starting tomorrow.
"It’s not about me needing breathing room. It’s that these films take time. There’s going to be a natural breathing room.
2People will have forgotten about Avatar, by the time we get a sequel done, and then they’ll go, 'Oh, Avatar. Yeah, that would be cool.'
"It’s not like Iron Man 2, coming out the year after Iron Man 1. It ain’t going to work that way."
The director is also planning on turning his hit Titanic, which was the biggest grossing movie of all time before Avatar came along, into a 3D movie.
"It’s going to be done in parallel with whatever I’m doing next, over the next year. We’re targeting for a Spring 2012 release, which is the hundred year anniversary of the sailing of the Titanic. It’s a nice marketing hook."
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