11 years for a sequel?!?!?!

I agree. As brilliant as it’ll probably be with Cameron at the helm it’s taken far too long. People have lost interest now. Shame.

Sequels are not always made because of the studios wanting to capture the audience of the first film, but because there is a confidence for the sequel to stand on its own, there's many examples of that happening before in the franchises. There is a confidence in this case, because I believe the studios know of what Cameron is capable of, so no matter what, the film is going to be popular and would gain new audience easily, even despite the first film still retaining a massive cult following, the gap of 10 years is nothing, even 50 years would not hurt if the project is good, in that case this being a sequel becomes irrelevant. When Cameron made Aliens, it was not exactly the same kind of film like the first one, and neither Terminator 2, managing to almost change the entire genres and tone of the films.

It's 12 years now , they pushed back all the movies

16 years twixt The Godfather Part II and Part III. The Wall Street films were like 23 years apart. I doubt that's the record for an official sequel (and I won't include Disney animated sequels. )