With the only question remaining about the commercial performance of James Cameron's Avatar being whether it will now topple Titanic to become the biggest film of all time, the man himself has been talking about his plans for a trilogy of films.

The current box office total for the film is $1.42bn and continuing to soar, and we can't help wondering whether it'll not only topple Titanic's $1.8bn, but perhaps even have a stab at the $2bn mark. Either way, James Cameron will have no trouble getting funding for his next film.

But will that film be Avatar 2? Yes, by the sounds of it. And an Avatar 3 as well. James Cameron, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, had the following to say on the matter: "I've had a storyline in mind from the start - there are even scenes in Avatar that I kept in because they lead to the sequel."

He continued by adding,"It just makes sense to think of it as a two or three film arc, in terms of the business plan. The CG plants and trees and creatures and the musculo-skeletal rigging of the main characters - that all takes an enormous amount of time to create. It'd be a waste not to use it again."

Already signed up for the next Avatar film is Sam Worthington, incidentally, although there's no clue as yet as to when Cameron plans to push the sequel forward.

EW