The original Avatar was a bona fide phenomenon. With performance capture, generous CG backdrops, and 3D photography far beyond anything we've experienced before, James Cameron's epic became the most profitable film of all time when it hit theaters in 2009. Hits like this tend to spawn sequels, but they hit theaters a little faster than that...
Originally scheduled for 2014, the still untitled Avatar 2 is the first of four suites in production.. It is a return to the beautiful moon of Pandora, where the natives
Na'vi (the great blue with a tail) repelled the human invaders who destroyed their lands to extract the precious "unobtainium".
One of them, paraplegic sailor Jake Sully, ended up falling in love with Neytiri, one of the Na'vi, and he found his consciousness definitely downloaded in his body
Na'vi "avatar".
Avatar 2 will pick up the story of the couple now that they have children, introducing the new Na'vi and humans into the mix.
But what else can we expect from the movie that, until 2019 Avengers: Endgame, was the biggest success of all time?
We sent a first reconnaissance mission to Pandora to find out everything you need to know about Avatar 2's release date, title, plot, cast, and more.
Avatar 2 release date (and Avatar 3, 4, and 5 release dates)
You know that hole in the form of Star Wars that will make December release schedules pretty empty after The Rise of Skywalker? Starting in 2021, Avatar suites will be available to complete it, 12 years after James Cameron's original film broke box office records,
Avatar 2 will debut on December 17, 2021.
Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5 were written simultaneously and are also in the works, but we won't have to wait that long for this.; they are currently
scheduled for December 2023, December 2025 and December 2027 if you want to put them on your calendar early. The next three, as yet unannounced, Star Wars movies will be available to fill holes in avatar form in the December 2022, 2024, and 2026 release schedules.
Cut to the hunt
- What is it? The big budget return of Pandora, the dynamic world that James Cameron created for the original Avatar in 2009.
- Where can i see him? It's going to be an absolutely massive release, so there should be no shortage of multiplexes where you can watch it, as long as James Cameron doesn't set the technical bar so high that average theaters can't handle the screening specs. You should expect it to hit Disney Plus after it hits theaters.
- When i can see it? December 17, 2021.
Avatar 2: first images revealed
(Image credit: Disney / 20th Century Fox)
The first images of Avatar 2, concept art for the watery parts of Pandora, were unveiled at CES 2020. They show more of the oceanscape from the film. Check out some photos below:
(Image credit: Disney / 20th Century Fox)
(Image credit: Disney / 20th Century Fox)
Avatar 2 has a correct title?
Nothing official beyond Avatar 2. A 2018 BBC report claimed that all four new movies could be titled Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: The Seedbearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Horseman, and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa (Eywa is the name of the Pandoran deity worshiped by the Na'vi). Unfortunately, if you think they seem uninspiring, the bad news is that they can be real. "These titles are among the titles being considered," Cameron told ET. "A final decision has not yet been made." Alternatively, you could keep it simple by going the Alien route with Avatars, Avatar3, Avatar Resurrection, and Avatar Vs Predator, or maybe not.
The Avatar 2 Story: What We Know
Plot details are currently as elusive as the "Unobtainium" that human invaders were trying to extract from Pandora in the original Avatar. However, we do know that the story will pick up roughly a decade after the first film and that Jake Sully (whose human consciousness has been definitively downloaded into his Na'vi body) and Neytiri now have children. It has also been confirmed that much of the film will take place around the oceans of Pandora, with the Metkayina clan, who have just been introduced to the sea, playing a key role.
"We decided that the sequels would not necessarily do what other sci-fi movies do, which is, if they want water, they go to the ocean planet; and if they want snow, they go to the ice planet. " Cameron said in a long term. Jon Landau, producing partner, said in an interview with Slashfilm. "We look at all the wonders that the Earth shows us, and we realized that we could travel all our lives and not see all the real wonders from the earth. So Jim made the decision to put everything on Pandora. Our stories introduce us to different environments, and also to different cultures." Of course,
there will also be clashes with these pesky humans and Moon raiders from the Resource Development Association (RDA). "The backstory really follows Jake and Neytiri, and their children," Cameron told Variety. "It's more of a family saga about fighting with humans."
While Avatar 2 will be the second act in a five-film saga, it is expected to work as a full movie, while being part of a larger arc. In fact, Cameron's desire to create a story worth telling is one of the main reasons why Avatar 2 took so long to materialize. "We're making standalone movies that will be standalone," Landau told Slashfilm. "Instead of rushing on, because Jim doesn't rush, we have to build our foundation, and these are the scripts. Knowing that we wanted to tell a lot of stories, we didn't want to just work out one script. I wanted to work out the scripts for all the movies we wanted to. to do before we start making them. This is what took us a while."
Avatar 2 Cast: New and Old Characters
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Unsurprisingly, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana return in their performance capture suits to play the lead roles Jake and Neytiri., while Giovanni Ribisi (RDA head Parker Selfridge), Joel David Moore (friendly human Norm Spellman) and CCH Pounder (Na'vi spiritual leader and Neytiri's mother Mo'at) all reprise their roles.
There are also surprise returns for Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang, whose characters Grace Augustine and General Quaritch died in the first film. Cameron confirmed to Entertainment Weekly in 2014 that Weaver would return as
"a different character and in many ways more difficult". It seems reasonable to assume that Grace's return might have something to do with her passing consciousness to the Tree of Souls. Meanwhile,
the soldier Grizzled Quaritch appears to be a key antagonist in all four new films. "I'm not going to say exactly how we're bringing him back," Cameron told Deadline in 2013, "but it's a science fiction story after all. His character will evolve in really unexpected places across the country." "new trio arc". movie saga "It should be noted that this quote goes back nearly seven years (it's now a four movie saga), and you never know what might have changed in between.
Many rookies also join the cast, including Cameron's meeting with his Titanic star Kate Winslet, who plays a character named Ronal. There are also roles for Flight of the Conchords, Jemaine Clement (Dr. Ian Garvin), Harry Potter, David Thewlis (Peylak), Star Trek: Discovery, Michelle Yeoh (Dr. Karina Mogue), The Sopranos Edie Falco (General Ardmore), Game of Thrones Oona Chaplin (Varang) and Cliff Curtis (chef Metkayina Tonowari) from Fear the Walking Dead.
There are also seven children joining the cast.. Jake and Neytiri's children are played by Jamie Flatters (Neteyam), Britain Dalton (Lo'ak) and Trinity Bliss (Tuktirey), while there are three confirmed free-diving Metkayina children: Bailey Bass (Tsireya), Filip Geljo ( Aonung) and Duane Evans Jr (Rotxo). Finally, Jack Champion embodies a human teenager born on Pandora, named Javier "Spider" Socorro.
Avatar 2 is made with mo-cap underwater technology
From The Abyss to Terminator 2, Titanic to Avatar, a new James Cameron movie usually pushes the limits in terms of cinematic ambition.
Expect Avatar 2 to be no different, as Cameron will no doubt create visuals unlike anything we've seen on screen before.
One of the main developments will be the world's first underwater performance capture technology. "The problem with the water is not the underwater part, but the interface between the air and the water, which forms a moving mirror," said Cameron. to Collider. "This moving mirror reflects all the dots and markers, and creates a lot of fake markers. It's a bit like a fighter jet throwing up a lot of glitter to confuse a missile's radar system. It creates thousands of fake targets, so We had to find a solution to this problem, which we did. "
Cameron also wants to revolutionize the 3D experience in theaters again, and it will be particularly interesting to see how he fares here. Avatar's 3D visuals (presumably still to be improved) sparked new levels of interest in stereoscopic projection, and for several years after its release, multiplexes were dominated by blockbuster 3D screenings. Filmmakers' interest then waned, a change Cameron attributed to Hollywood's preference for converting films shot in 2D to 3D in post-production, rather than using actual stereoscopic cameras. -but during an appearance at the Vivid light festival in Sydney (reported by Movieweb), he said, the Avatar suites
"They will be, to the best of my ability, the best 3D that can be made."
Will the world still care about Avatar?
2009 was a long time ago.
It's been more than a decade since Avatar first appeared on movie screens, and 3D has passed into memory as a fad.. But people's fascination with Pandora shouldn't be overlooked: they always want to see something they've never seen in a movie theater before, and Cameron is determined to bring this experience to his audience.
We can't wait to see what it has to offer.