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James Cameron has likened ‘Avatar’ to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ franchise. The 67-year-old filmmaker helmed the record-breaking 2009 sci-fi movie – but James only committed to making more films after reaching a specific agreement with 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the money-spinning original. He shared: “What I said to the Fox regime at the time was, ‘I’ll do it, but we’ve got to play a larger game here. I don’t want to just do a movie and do a movie and do a movie. I want to tell a bigger story’. “I said, ‘Imagine a series of novels like ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ existed, and we’re adapting…