James Cameron slams Avengers franchise, reveals hope for a decline in superhero films
View(s):With no fewer than four additional Avatar films in the pipeline, one could be forgiven for thinking James Cameron is an advocate for effects laden, plot-driven cinema.
The celebrated director has surprisingly condemned their easy escapism by targeting the increasingly popular superhero franchise, a genre currently dominated by Marvel and their rapidly developing universe of comic-book to big-screen characters.
Speaking to Indie Wire as Marvel’s latest offering, Avengers: Infinity War, prepares for release in the United States, Cameron, 63, admitted he’s keen to see a declining appetite for such films.
“I’m hoping we’ll start getting Avenger fatigue here pretty soon,’ he said. ‘Not that I don’t love the movies. It’s just, come on guys, there are other stories to tell besides hypergonadal males without families doing death-defying things for two hours and wrecking cities in the process.”
Cameron plans to release the first of four Avatar sequels in 2020, 11-years after his groundbreaking science-fiction saga entertained cinema-goers. But he is quick to assert that the film and its likely follow-ups, set in the 22nd century on fictional planet Pandora, has more in common with classic American cinema.
He said: ‘I’ve found myself as a father of five starting to think about what would an Avatar story be like if it was a family drama. What if it was The Godfather?
‘It’s a continuation of the same characters… but what happens when warriors who are willing to go on suicide charges and leap off cliffs, what happens when they grow up and have their own kids?’
Despite his perceived criticism of Marvel films, studio head Kevin Feige expressed his delight that Cameron – whose canon of films also includes The Abyss, Terminator and Titanic – also said he loved them.
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