Avatar Sequel Postponed Until 2017 Due To Plot Complexity

Contrary to earlier media announcements, the Avatar sequels will not be released in December 16 but will be out sometime in 2017 according to movie director James Cameron. This decision is due to his hard involvement in the movie script which is said to be complex, reports from the Hollywood Reporter said.

"There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a stand-alone film," Cameron said in an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday while he is in Wellington, New Zealand promoting the country's film industry.

According to the Rollingstone, Cameron and the Avatar moviemakers planned to release the three sequels of the Avatar movie in three consecutive years which may result in the delay of the release of the next movies. The saga is slated to be finished in 2019.

"We're writing three simultaneously. And we've done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. We're not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that. Parallel with that, we're doing all the design. So we've designed all the creatures and the environments," the Avatar director said.

Meanwhile, reports from BBC said that the award-winning director assures the audience that the writing of the movie scripts will be completed at the end of this month.

The first Avatar film won three Oscars and is said to be to have the highest earnings in the Hollywood industry to date with its amazing $2.8 billion (£1.8 billion) sales.

The next three sequels will still be filmed in New Zealand, the country where the first Avatar sci-fi movie was shot.