One night, Raina wakes up with a stomach ache. If you want to read the stories in perfect chronological order, you'd need to strictly read the flashbacks in Sisters and the one in Smile in order, then read Guts, then read about three-quarters of Smile, then read Sisters when you get to the summer before 9th Grade, and finally read the rest of Smile. It is a Prequel to both Smile and Sisters note Both Smile and Sisters feature flashbacks for Raina from her as a toddler desperate for a younger sister. “Avatar: The Way of Water” opens in theaters on December 16.Guts is a 2019 autobiographical graphic novel written by Raina Telgemeier. “Avatar: The High Ground” is set to be released on December 6. “We figured out a way to restructure the elements that we needed to distribute across the first two of the sequels, and relaunched it in a completely different way,” he said. Still, he believed the story was too good to waste, so Cameron and his team of writers opted to work the most important parts into the next two “Avatar” movies and release the rest as a graphic novel. It ticked every other box, but it didn’t tick that one.” “It also didn’t play enough by Avatar rules, which is to connect us to the dream world, that which has a spiritual component that we can’t even quite quantify in words. “But it was missing one of those critical elements about sequels, which is that it didn’t go enough into the unexpected,” he said. Michelle Rodriguez Refused to Return to ‘Avatar’ Franchise: It Would Be ‘Overkill’ to Resurrect CharacterĬameron eventually realized that certain thematic elements were missing, and it would be impossible to film the story as a true sequel to “Avatar.” It was like, ‘Man, this is a great story. So at a certain point, I said, ‘I’ll just finish it, and see if it’s a movie.’ I did. We kept trying to corral it into a box, and it never quite fit.

“I was working with a team of writers,” Cameron said. In a new interview with Total Film, the filmmaker revealed that one of his scrapped ideas for “The Way of Water” has been turned into a new graphic novel, titled “Avatar: The High Ground.” With all of that coming down the pike, you might think that Cameron had exhausted all of his ideas for future “Avatar” projects. Plus, Cameron is also hard at work on “Avatar 4” and “Avatar 5.”

“ Avatar: The Way of Water” opens in theaters this December, and Cameron has already shot an untitled third movie that is scheduled for 2024. And there’s going to be a lot of it over the next decade. It’s been 13 years since James Cameron’s “Avatar” first opened in theaters, but the wait for more Pandora-set content is finally over.

Guts a graphic novel