Avatar: The Way of Water
James Cameron delivered box post gold for the second time in his life sentence when he releasedAvatarin 2009 . At the time , the figure one movie of all time wasTitanic , which was the last film Cameron made beforeAvatar . ( Star war : The Force Awakenslaterovertook both of themat the domestic corner business office , butAvatarremains the all time # 1 film worldwide . ) After its liberation , Avatarchanged cinema with an raise to digital three-D filmmaking and photo - realistic CGI fictitious character and alien environments .
It was an obscenely expensive movie , but Cameron ’s cart track phonograph recording gave him the freedom to go for it . And he was justify a second time . In an historic period when a movie is made or undone purely by its gap weekend , Cameron has an amazing capacity for earn movies with staying power at the box office . calendar week after hebdomad , audiences poured into theaters to watch Cameron ’s dazzling vision of an alien world .
After eight foresightful years , Avatar 2has at long lastkicked off output . What can we await from the sequel ? What ’s the story ? Who ’s back ? And just how many subsequence are we talk about ? Here ’s every detail we know .
Avatar 2 Returning Cast Members
atomic number 82 actors Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are both back , as foreign lovebirds Jake Sully and Neytiri , severally . Their romanticism form the sand of the first film , so do n’t be surprised if they have a tike or two now after several years together .
Also back is Sigourney Weaver , despite her character ’s death in the first movie . Weaver differentiate interviewers a while back that she wasplaying a novel grapheme , but Cameron later said that her original fiber will somehow be awake again . Death seems to have footling meaning on Pandora , because she ’s not the only at peace character bring back to a major function . Stephen Lang ’s villainMiles Quaritch is back , too , and Cameron has confirmedhe’ll be the antagonistin all of theAvatarsequels . ( More on that later . ) Lang , by the manner , at 65 years previous , is still as fit and buff as ever .
CCH Pounder returnsas Neytiri ’s female parent and the clan ’s ghostly leader , Mo’at . Joel David Moore repriseshis good guy rope scientist Norm Spellman . And Matt Gerald is back as Quaritch ’s subordinate , Lyle Wainfleet . Wainfleet is yet another character that give out inAvatarbut will somehow return for the sequels .
Avatar 2 New Cast Members
Cliff Curtis , best known for his workplace onFear the Walking Dead , hassigned on for a major role . Curtis will toy Tonowari , another motion - capture Na’vi character . Tonowari is the leader of the Metkayina Clan , a federation of tribes of Na’vi Rand inhabitant .
Oona Chaplin is remembered best as Robb Stark ’s doom , pregnant St. Bride Talisa onGame of Thrones , though like Curtis , she ’s had many other role . Shejoins the castinAvatar 2as a mystery story character named Varang . Nothing has yet been let on about Varang , leading to hypothesis that she could be Jake and Neytiri ’s girl . Especially since the Sully kids and grandkids may play a major part in the saga . ( Keep reading for more on the Sully family . )
Avatar 2’s Plot
All that ’s recognize aboutAvatar 2is that its focus will be largely on Pandora ’s ocean . ( This is why Cliff Curtis ' new character is so important , as leader of a " reef clan " doubtlessly based around water . ) This is also part of the reason it ’s taken so long to get the sequel off the background : Cameron and the visual effects artist atWeta Digitalhad to create new technology forunderwater movement gaining control . Volcanic environments are also expected to appear .
Cameron has even voiced a desire to get some footage at the bottom of the Mariana Trench — the deep open on Earth — using a submersible . This was an early theme , however , and could have change by now . Then again , you never cognize ; Cameronreallyloves deep sea diving .
How many Avatar sequels?
primitively the design was for two subsequence . Then it became three that would all be filmed at the same time , a laThe Lord of the Rings . That has since expanded tofoursequels , for a aggregate of five films in what is now becoming theAvatarsaga . But or else of take them simultaneously , Cameron will film them back - to - back .
Avatar 2is ( presently ) set for a release on December 18 , 2020 . That date has already been deepen something like six or seven times , so it may not stay . If it does , it ’s possible it could go up against some hefty contention ; it falls on the exact same weekend that Disney has used for releasing its last three Star Wars movies . No Star Wars movie for 2020 has been annunciate yet — it would be a standalone , possibly the rumored Obi - Wan movie — but you’re able to expect Lucasfilm to bet on its 2020 claim sooner than later .
Avatar 2 Production Has Started
Afterendless delays , product has finally begun on theAvatarsequels . They ’re gestate to be filmed inJames Cameron ’s favorite format : 3D. Cameron has also mentioned a desire to mayhap film at ahigher shape rate , like what Peter Jackson did withThe Hobbitfilms . Filming is look to take home in the first place in New Zealand , although Manhattan Beach in California has also been mentioned very recently as where principle photography is taking station . Perhaps SoCal is being used for locating shooting ?
The first sequel was co - compose by Cameron andJosh Friedman , best bonk as the creator and showrunner onTerminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles . Many other crew member from the first film are take back , as well . One notable exception is composer James Horner , who knead for Cameron on bothAvatarandTitanic . Horner died tragically in a plane crash in 2015 .
Having just gotten started filming , and necessitate an enormous amount of computer deliver for fairly much the intact movie , do n’t expect anAvatar 2teaser trailer untilat least2019 . former 2018 could be a possibility , but do n’t hold your breath .
