‘Avatar’ Sequels Planned for Release in December 2014 and 2015

James Cameron directed the two highest-grossing films of all-time -- 2009’s Avatar and 1997’s Titanic. Titanic isn’t getting a sequel despite its rumored re-release in 3-D, but Avatar is getting one.

According to MTV News, Cameron is in the process of writing the sequels to the film and plans to have them released in December 2014 and 2015.

"I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now," Cameron said. "We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart."

Though the first Avatar took four years to film, Cameron plans to find a way to film the sequels easier and quicker.

"My next goal is to refine the technique, make it easier so it doesn't take as long," Cameron said in 2009. "From the time we capture and finish the capture, it's literally nine to 10 months to get the CG characters working, to get their facial musculature working.

“So now we have Jake, we have Neytiri. Sam can step right back into it, the characters will fit them like a glove, and we'll just go on. So a lot of the start-up torque that had to be done for one movie really makes more sense if you play it out across several films."

Cameron hinted that the sequels will take place in Pandora’s ocean and confirmed that the main characters from the first film will return.

"Basically, if you survived the first film, you get to be in the second film, at least in some form," Cameron said, confirming the appearances of Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana, and Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, to name a few. Cameron says the next two films’ profits will go to good causes.

"Fox has partnered with me to donate a chunk of the profits to environmental causes that are at the heart of the Avatar world," he told Entertainment Weekly. "I didn't want to make more Avatar movies without a grander plan in place."