When James Cameron was making a movie revolving around an indigenous planet in Pandora after the giant success of Titanic in 1997, anyone would laugh at the thought of the movie becoming one of the greatest ever to be made. And they would laugh even harder if you were to tell them that this Sci-Fi movie would leave behind the budget of Titani,c a movie consisting of stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet with a production of a whopping 200 million dollars, considered to be then, the most expensive movie ever made. But James Cameron believed in his vision.

He kept postponing the release of his science fiction masterpiece from 1999 until technology was suitable enough for it to be made. And in 2009, when this animated movie with a budget estimated to be somewhere between $280 million to $310 million became the second highest-grossing movie and remained so for a decade, it all paid off. But will this also prove true in the case of Avatar: The Way of Water is a tricky question, but it already seems to surpass the budget of Henry Cavill’s Justice League.

Avatar: The Way of Water not only has larger-than-life production but an even larger budget than Justice League

We have established the fact that James Cameron is a visionary. Thus, we all have very high hopes attached to the sequel of the iconic Avatar movie, but there is also no denying the ‘sequel curse.’ There has been a repeated pattern of movie sequels that have blockbuster prequels not living up to expectations.

However, if the massive budget of Avatar: The Way of Water is anything to go by, James Cameron is not afraid of this curse.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the science fiction flick has a budget of around 350 to 400 million dollars. Now that beats even DC’s Justice League starring stars such as Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, and more.

For the unversed, the DC movie is one of the most expensive movies to ever have been made, and Avatar: The Way of Water has just surpassed it. To make a profit, the movie will have to earn at least a billion at the box office, and every time ‘at least’ and ‘billion’ are put together, it is never a good combo. While making billions at the box office was an attainable task before the pandemic, but is very difficult post-pandemic. However, considering how Avatar managed to turn the tide in the past, there is no saying for sure that its sequel won’t be doing the same.

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