Avatar: Fire and Ash reveals the wild making of its biggest action scene

On the press tour behind the December 2025 release of Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third movie in the Avatar saga, writer-director-producer James Cameron often seemed frustrated or exhausted. His interviews focused on the assumption that he’d used generative AI to make his movie, and whether the series could or should continue. It seemed clear that he was proud of the movie he’d made, but also vividly aware that he’d spent some 20 years of his career in the jungles of Pandora. He sounded ready to move on and make non-Avatar movies.