Turns out Avatar wasn't always going to be the family-friendly movie it ended up as.

While James Cameron's blockbuster has its fair share of action scenes, fellow director Robert Rodriguez has revealed that it was originally envisioned as an R-rated film.

Speaking about their new collaboration Alita: Battle Angel and the fact that one character eats brains in its original source material, Rodriguez brought up Cameron's 2009 movie.

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"Because it's a graphic novel they can go really out there and part of what Jim [Cameron] did on Avatar originally, he wrote that to be an R-rated movie," he told ScreenRant.

"He knew he needed to pull some stuff back so it could be for all audiences, PG-13. And so we certainly keep a good balance I think, especially because with cyborg action you can do a lot more, but I think we keep the right tone."

Meanwhile, things are gearing-up for Avatar's upcoming sequels, and it sounds like we may finally have their titles.

The four (yes four) movies will reportedly be called Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.

As for Alita, we were recently given a fresh new look at the action movie with a new trailer.

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Avatar 2 will be released on December 18, 2020. Avatar 3 is then due on December 17, 2021 with Avatar 4 arriving on December 20, 2024, and Avatar 5 on December 19, 2025.

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