James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash Official Runtime Revealed: This Is Not What Everyone Thought

Los Angeles, November 12 - James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar: The Way of Water is among the longest films ever, with a theatrical runtime of 3 hours and 12 minutes. Well, the maverick filmmaker seems to be in no mood to make shorter films anymore, as his next is even longer.

The third Avatar instalment - Avatar: Fire And Ash was going to be longer than The Way of Water, as confirmed by the director himself in an earlier interview. While he didn't reveal the exact runtime back then, Cameron confirmed in an interview with Empire magazine that the next film will be a bit longer.

With little over a month to go before the release, the film's official runtime has been revealed, and it is 3 hours and 15 minutes (195 minutes), as listed in AMC theatre chains. The Avatar films are anyway longer than most of the Hollywood titles, as the first film of the franchise, released in 2009, was 2 hours and 58 minutes long and is the highest-grossing film in the history of the worldwide box office, while The Way of Water holds the record for the third biggest grosser ever.

One can't expect less when it comes to Avatar movies, and unsurprisingly, the expectations are high from Fire And Ash, which debuts in cinemas worldwide on December 19. Cameron had hyped the movie by calling it better than the first two films, and it would be much higher in action.

The movie stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet reprise their roles from previous films alongside Oona Chaplin, in prominent roles. There are, at least, two more films in the franchise after Fire And Ash - both scheduled to hit the screens in December 2029 and December 2031, respectively.

Stay tuned...