James Cameron has shared another early reaction to Avatar 3 – and it's yet more evidence Fire and Ash will be the most emotional movie in the franchise yet. Speaking in a new interview, the director says he showed his wife Suzy Amis Cameron a version of the movie from late 2024 and she could not stop crying.

While some thought the Avatar franchise was already past its prime, the box office success of Avatar: The Way of Water certainly showed that people would turn out. And by all indications, they’re going to get one hell of a movie when they do.

James Cameron is beginning to tease Avatar fans about the lengthy — and emotional — Avatar: Fire and Ash. In multiple new pieces published by Empire in recent days, filmmaker Cameron, 70, noted that the third Avatar installment "will actually be a little bit longer than movie 2,