Everything to Know Avatar: Fire and Ash (2024)

Before Avatar: The Way of Water hit theaters in December 2022, director James Cameron was already mostly done with the third film in the franchise.Cameron explained to Entertainment Weekly that he shot parts of the franchise’s third and fourth installments to avoid “the Stranger Things effect,” a.k.a., child actors drastically growing in between films.“They’re all supposed to still be in high school [but] they look like they’re 27,” the director said in December 2022 of the Netflix series. “You know, I love the show. It's OK, we'll suspend disbelief. We like the characters, but, you know.”Cameron went on to describe The Way of The Water star Jack Champion — who plays human teen Spider — as a “growing weed.” He added: “We shot with Jack when he was 14 and 15, almost up to 16. So we were shooting him over an 18-month period.”In August 2024, Cameron told D23 Expo attendees that that the threequel is officially titled Avatar: Fire and Ash. “You’ll see a lot more Pandora that you never saw before ... It’s an insane adventure and a feast for the eyes, but it’s also got very high emotional stakes, more than ever before,” Cameron said during the presentation. “We’re going into really challenging territory for all the characters you know and love.”Keep scrolling for everything to know about Avatar 3:

Before Avatar: The Way of Water hit theaters in December 2022, director James Cameron was already mostly done with the third film in the franchise.Cameron explained to Entertainment Weekly that he shot parts of the franchise’s third and fourth installments to avoid “the Stranger Things effect,” a.k.a., child actors drastically growing in between films.“They’re all supposed to still be in high school [but] they look like they’re 27,” the director said in December 2022 of the Netflix series. “You know, I love the show. It's OK, we'll suspend disbelief. We like the characters, but, you know.”Cameron went on to describe The Way of The Water star Jack Champion — who plays human teen Spider — as a “growing weed.” He added: “We shot with Jack when he was 14 and 15, almost up to 16. So we were shooting him over an 18-month period.”In August 2024, Cameron told D23 Expo attendees that that the threequel is officially titled Avatar: Fire and Ash. “You’ll see a lot more Pandora that you never saw before ... It’s an insane adventure and a feast for the eyes, but it’s also got very high emotional stakes, more than ever before,” Cameron said during the presentation. “We’re going into really challenging territory for all the characters you know and love.”Keep scrolling for everything to know about Avatar 3:

Although the third Avatar movie was set to hit theaters in December 2024, Cameron announced in November 2023 that the film’s release date had been pushed back.

“We're into a very hectic two-year post-production right now,” he said at the 2023 Screen Production and Development Association conference in New Zealand. "So, it'll be Christmas '25."

Disney confirmed that the Avatar: Fire and Ash will hit theaters on December 19, 2025.

Worthington, Saldana, Lang, Weaver and Champion will all reprise their roles from The Way of Water. Cliff Curtis, CCH Pounder, Jack Champion, Britain Dalton, Trinity Bliss, Bailey Bass and Kate Winslet will return as the Na'vi they played in Avatar 2, while Oona Chaplin, David Thewlis and Michelle Yeoh will debut in new roles.

Cameron has kept the plot of Avatar 3 under wraps, but he's said that one possible title for the film is Avatar: The Seed Bearer. While Jake and his family have settled in with the Metkayina, Pandora is still under threat from Quaritch and the humans. There's also the mystery of Kiri's parentage to uncover, which was left deliberately vague in The Way of Water.

Principal filming for Avatar 3 was finished in December 2020, but the film's visual effects and editing are not complete. In December 2022, rumors surfaced that the first cut of the threequel is over nine hours long.

According to Cameron, there will be at least two more sequels after Avatar 3 — if not more. Parts of Avatar 4 were filmed at the same time as The Way of Water and Avatar 3, and the movie is tentatively scheduled for release in 2026. Avatar 5, meanwhile, will arrive in 2028, and producer Jon Landau has said that it will follow Neytiri as she visits Earth. If those movies succeed, Cameron revealed that he has plans for sixth and seventh films as well.

Cameron revealed that the Avatar universe is so vast that there are infinite possibilities within the world to keep creating more tales. As he told Empire magazine in December 2022, "The world of Avatar is so sprawling that I can tell most of the stories I want to tell within it and try many of the stylistic techniques that I hope to explore."

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