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With work on his Avatar epic now finished and less than a week to go from the movie's release, the question has arisen whether James Cameron has other ideas for returning to the alien jungles of Pandora.

"We're going to be spending a lot money and time developing the not only the process but the assets and all the models of every rock and tree and plant and creature and the muscle rigs for all the creatures and the facial rigging for the main characters…this is millions of dollars," Cameron was quoted as saying by Collider. "So it really makes sense to think of it as the potential start of a franchise or a saga that plays out over several acts with each movie being an act of that saga.  And I have it mapped out but I haven't written the scripts yet.  It all depends whether we do well with the first film.  But that was certainly the intention from the beginning, was to create the foundation for a persistent world."

So he has ideas for sequel stories but no official go-ahead to begin work on fleshing the ideas out...sounds like we're in the pitch stage of development.