Director James Cameron offers the first story details for Avatar, saying they'll revolve around Jake, Neytiri and their children.

It’s been six years since Avatar hit theaters in 2009, and we still won’t get the developing sequel until 2017. Ever since 20th Century Fox announced that there would be three sequels arriving in 2017, 2018 and 2019, many have assumed they would each arrive in December each year like the original film. Now director James Cameron confirms the Avatar 2 release date being eyed is Christmas 2017.

James Cameron is delaying production on his upcoming Avatar sequels, which means the next installment won't hit theaters until Christmas 2017. (That's a year later than expected.) Rumors of a delay had been swirling for months, as the filmmaker had yet to submit a shooting script to Fox. Not surprisingly, part of the problem was that Cameron had planned to shoot Avatars 2, 3 and 4 back-to-back-to-back. "There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a standalone film," Cameron told the Associated Press this week.