However, James Cameron's Avatar sequel was supposed to hit theaters in 2014 and then again in 2020. The reason it took so long was that James Cameron wanted to get everything exactly right. He had a new Na'vi tribe, the Metkayina, and the action moved to the water, which brought its own complications.
More specifically, Avatar 2 appears to take place 14 years later. This would explain why Neteyam - Jake & Neytiri's eldest biological child - looks like a teenager, and is played by Jamie Flatters, who was in his mid-teens when cast. Such a long Avatar timeline gap created a different dynamic for the sequel.
The post-production on the visual effects-heavy film also took a long period of time. The Avatar sequels, perhaps unsurprisingly, were incredibly expensive to make. Cameron told GQ that the movie would “have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history. That's your threshold.
Why was there such a big gap between Avatar 1 and 2?
It's been no secret that James Cameron's sequel would make heavy use of pioneering underwater filming technology. This contributed to why Avatar 2 took so long to make, a necessary endeavor since Avatar: The Way of Water introduced a new Na'vi tribe, the Metkayina, who live around and in Pandora's ocean.
Filming wrapped in December 2020. In February 2024, Cameron gave the following update on Avatar 3: It's pretty much in the can. We're shooting pick-ups on 3, which is just filling in the last 2 or 3%, and we've also got live-action pick-ups in June, that's another couple percent.
The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday pushed the release of “Avatar 3” a year, bumping it from December 2024 to December 2025. The timeline is stretched even further for the next planned installments. “Avatar 4” is now slated to hit theaters in December 2029; “Avatar 5” is set to arrive in December 2031.
In fact, the franchise's producer Jon Landau tweeted on Tuesday about the rumoured changes: "Each Avatar film is an exciting but epic undertaking that takes time to bring to the quality level we as filmmakers strive for and audiences have come to expect.
Originally, Avatar 3 was scheduled to release in December 2024, but Disney later altered its premiere lineup for a whole slew of film franchises, including Star Wars, Avengers and the Avatar sequels. Avatar 3 is now scheduled for a December 2025 release, with the later films arriving in 2029 and 2031.
However, the addition of two more sequels, for a total of five Avatar films, and the necessity to develop new technology to film performance capture scenes underwater, a feat never accomplished before, led to significant delays to allow the crew more time to work on the writing, preproduction, and visual effects.
Cameron has been working in New Zealand since 2005, when the first “Avatar” movie started development. “We're into a very hectic two years of post-production right now,” Cameron confirmed when asked about the third “Avatar” movie. “So it will be Christmas of 2025.”
According to the report, Avatar 3 was titled Avatar: The Seed Bearer, followed by Avatar: The Tulkun Rider and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa for the subsequent films.
Because it's set so far in the future, humans have improved their ability to space travel, which is fortunate, because Pandora is a reported 4.37 light years away, as the film depicts it...
Lifespan. Although lifespan data is incomplete, it is estimated Na'vi live 30% longer than the average human. Once born, Na'vi children mature more rapidly than humans.
James Cameron confirms there was never a nine-hour cut of Avatar 3, as rumors suggested. The director explains that his comments were misconstrued, and that Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5 represent nine hours of material in total, with each movie running about three hours.
So, it's fair to say that Avatar 3 won't exactly be a short film. As of December 2022, Avatar 3 was around nine hours long, but don't fret—Cameron doesn't expect moviegoers to sit in theaters for that long.
Following the release date shifts, we're now set to get Avatar 4 on December 21, 2029 and Avatar 5 on December 19, 2031. Some filming has already been done on the fourth movie with the younger cast, but there's still shooting to be done. Additionally, the fifth movie hasn't started production at all.
The short and easy answer is, No. But, it's important to note that the Avatar franchise has brought dead characters back in the past. The Way of Water brought Quaritch back as a recombinant.
The director is currently deep into post-production on “Avatar 3,” which Disney has given a 2025 release date. Cameron has also shot all of the live-action scenes for “Avatar 4” that take place before a time jump in the story. The remainder of the fourth film still needs to be filmed.
Her father is not a father, her father is another mother, Eywa, the Great Mother, the sentient life force of Pandora itself that exists in all things there, but is rarely understood. So essentially yes, Kiri was born from Eywa just like Anakin Skywalker was allegedly conceived by the Force itself and its midichlorians.
During a press event for the Avatar: The Way of Water digital release, Screen Rant attended a Q&A with producer Jon Landau. He revealed that while filming Avatar: The Way of Water, they also shot Avatar 3 and the first act of Avatar 4. Landau also explained why they needed to film these movies simultaneously.
Lo'ak and Kiri are 14 years old in Avatar: The Way of Water, while Tuk is only eight. So, it sounds as if the fourth movie will open with Lo'ak, Tuk, and Kiri at the same ages they are in the third installment, and then they will age six years following the time jump.
