James Cameron’s New Horror Movie Announcement Has Us Asking One Question

If there is one lesson we have learned in the last 40 odd films, you will never invest against James Cameron. There was a bet against him when the Maverick filmmaker took “Titanic”, and when he demanded “avatar” an imaginative and lush foreign world a decade later. In both cases, Cameron’s attempts not only succeeded, but made him the King of Hollywood.

“Avatar” is currently two films in a deep -designed five -movie saga, but now it looks like Cameron will be the detour “Avatar: Fire and Ash”. As the filmmaker himself stated in a press release via his Facebook page todayCameron’s company, Lightstorm Entertainment, has acquired the rights for the latest novel “The Devils” for author Joe Abercrombie. This novel was literally published just 13 May, but it has already been built quite a bit, even leaving Cameron’s interest aside. Abercrombie is one of the most popular fantasy writers working today, and his “first law” and “Madness” novels are bestsellers. Cameron describes “The Devils” with his own words “sharply witty horror adventure” and “epic battle between good and evil except for most of the time you can’t tell what is” claiming that the novel is in Abercrombie “Absolute Peak.”

It is clear that both Abercrombie fans and Cameron are very enthusiastic about the “The Devils” event that sounds like a horror-fantasy-mashup story “Constantine”, Clive Barker or in this year’s “lost countries”. Cameron, for his part, states that he writes the film’s version of the script with Abercrombie, and of course this film is produced by Lightstorm. Of course, the question now is the same one whose press release goes out of the way to not answer: Cameron directs the adaptation of “Devils”, and if so, what does it mean to “Avatar 4”?

Let us be clear and it is said that we can only speculate on who may direct or do not direct what future films come from Lightstorm Entertainment. We only know that Cameron will be “The Devils” with Abercrombie. As he explains in a press release:

“I look forward to the writing process with him, even though I am sure that this adaptation will write practically himself because Joe writes very visually, almost in scenes and in a very cinematic structure. I can’t wait to dig this when I turn” Avatar: Fire and Ash “. It is a happy new challenge to bring these unrestrained characters to life.”

According to that statement alone, it would be easy to conclude that Cameron is a writer of “Devils”, who works in the same way as the 2019 “Alita: Battle Angel” movie he wrote together and directed Robert Rodriguez. This default becomes more difficult when you take into account During the Empire’s interview in 2022, Cameron made a statement, Where he states that he may not feel forced to help the remaining “Avatar” adventures:

“Avatar” movies are kind of consuming. I also have some other things that are being developed that are exciting. In the end, I think over time- I know if it is three or four after I want to move Baton to the director I trust so I can go to do other things I am also interested in. Or maybe not. I don’t know. “

At that time, Cameron was still uncertain that he left behind Pandora and passed the flashlight to another filmmaker. Perhaps his obvious enthusiasm with “Devils” has finally forced him to decide to end his time after “Avatar” “Fire and ashes.” The fourth “Avatar” is scheduled to be released in 2029, which will be full four years in the future (the better to give to VFX teams Time to develop the technology you need) what may give him time to squeeze the “devils”. (What about “Hiroshima’s ghosts?”In

So although both “The Devils” and the last two Avatar “films are quite a bit, they currently have a case of Schrödinger’s chair. It seems very unlikely that Cameron will guide them all, but then again … we have to remind ourselves without investing against Big Jim.