Avatar: The Way of Water
Actress Zoe Saldana has finished film her scenes as the Na’vi Neytiri for James Cameron’sAvatar 2andAvatar 3 . A ten afterAvatarbecame the highest - grossing film in history worldwide , Cameron is hard at work create the first two of four planned sequels that will revisit the planet Pandora and its mystical , eco - favorable forest - dwell slipstream the Na’vi .
The sequels will fetch back many of the first film ’s cast members , include Sam Worthington as earthling Jake Sully , Stephen Lang as villain Miles Queritch , and Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine ( the latter two will come back even though their characters died in the original film ) . Kate Winslet is the handsome new cast of characters addition , playing the character Ronal , described by Cameron as a extremity of the Sea People . And of course , Zoe Saldana returns as Neytiri , the Na’vi adult female who fell in love with Worthington ’s Sully in the first film as he walked among her the great unwashed in his Na’vi avatar .
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Appearing via video at Tuesday ’s Fox presentation at CineEurope , director James Cameron provided an update on the status of the first twoAvatarsequels , right now being shot concurrently ( viaDeadline ) . Among the tidbits offered up by Cameron was the news that Zoe Saldana has already finish shooting her scenes for the celluloid . Cameron revealed that he and his crew are presently on day 130 of carrying into action capture work on the movies . It will still be over two more years before the first of the sequels hits movie screens .
Like the originalAvatar , Cameron ’s sequels will make employment of across-the-board performance capture and CGI in gild to create the Na’vi and now the Sea People . And this time , Cameronwill take his mellow - tech tv camera underwaterto create an even more alien surroundings . As Cameron revealed at CineEurope , Kate Winslet has been practicing hold up her hint for the submerged chronological succession and is now able-bodied to go seven minutes at a reach .
Cameron has draw the ongoingAvatarstoryas a " generational home saga"much likeThe Godfather . The minor of Jake and Neytiri are set to take on sport roles in the new motion-picture show , and with high-risk guys like the militaristic Miles Queritch still around , it ’s plain that they will all have to carry on fighting to protect Pandora from the military group that want to exploit its natural riches ( namely unobtanium ) . In a late interview , Stephen Lang also said the novel movieswill have parallels to real life politics .
As for Saldana , the actress has little else on her slate beyondAvatar 2,Avatar 3,Avatar 4andAvatar 5 . Her status forAvengers 4andGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3is apparently very much up in the air , for reasons that do n’t have to be explained to anyone who sawAvengers : Infinity War . The future of her Uhura part inStar Trekis also unsung , thoughStar Trek 4reportedly is still in development , now withdirector S.J. Clarkson occur aboard . Saldana does now have a very large windowpane to take on other work before James Cameron call her back to finish off his five - movie outer distance piece ( assuming audience get Cameron lie with they wish to see the second two sequel ) .
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reference : Deadline
