No matter how much we want it, it’s starting to seem like we’ll never get another James Cameron movie. The waiting is getting a little out of hand Jim.

Fans rejoiced earlier this year when they hard Cameron was finally pushing ahead on a new feature film, his first since Titanic way back in the 90s. The movie is called Avatar and it was supposed to be ready for 2008. Now, not so much. He’s pushing it back to 2009.

The great shining Cameron tells The Independent: “Avatar is a very ambitious sci-fi movie… It's a futuristic tale set on a planet 200 years hence. It's an old-fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience. It aspires to a mythic level of storytelling.”

How ambitious is it? “The film requires me to create an entirely new alien culture and language, and for that I want 'photo-real' CGI characters. Sophisticated enough 'performance-capture' animation technology is only coming on stream now. I've spent the last 14 months doing performance-capture work - the actor performs the character and then we animate it.” So it sounds like maybe it’s the technology, not his ongoing obsession with underwater photography that’s holding him up. Well, at least that’s progress.

He affirms that it’s a tough movie to put together, “I always want to find something mentally engaging. I'll spend many months completing the special effects on Avatar, and it will not be released until the summer of 2009. It's quite a challenge - and for that reason, I embrace it.”

So pack away your Terminator sheets for yet another year Cameronites, the waiting continues. With the movie this far off, who knows what will happen between now and then. Will we ever see Avatar? Unless Captain Jim gets distracted discovering a new species of fish some time in the next couple of years, signs still say yes. Just not any time soon.