Peter Jackson's decision to shoot The Hobbit at 48 frames per second has been a point of some controversy since it was first announced and continued to garner buzz after the film's CinemaCon preview back in April.

While the verdict's still out on the finished product, filmmaker James Cameron had his own thoughts on the shooting process following The Hobbit's premiere in Wellington on Wednesday. In fact, if all goes well for Jackson's trilogy, he may even end up using a similar technique for his own Avatar sequels."If there is acceptance of 48, then that will pave the way for Avatar [sequels] to take advantage of it," said Cameron (via West Business ). "We charged out ahead on 3D with Avatar, now Peter's doing it with The Hobbit. It takes that kind of bold move to make change."As for the current state of Avatar 2 and 3, Cameron said he's still plugging away on the screenplays. "I want to get these scripts nailed down," he said. "I don't want to be writing the movie in post production. We kind of did that on the first picture, I ended up cutting out a lot of scenes and so on and I don't want to do that again."

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters on December 14 in 2D, 3D, IMAX and in both 24 and 48 FPS formats.

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