‘Avatar 2’: The Official Trailer, The Cast & Everything Else We Know About The Epic Sequel

Avatar became a planetary improvement erstwhile it was released successful theaters connected December 18, 2009. Expectations are precocious for the sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, but the footage truthful acold has surpassed each of our wildest dreams. The authoritative trailer was released connected November 2 and takes spot much than a decennary aft the archetypal film. The Sully household faces caller obstacles ahead, but they stay united.

The first Avatar, directed by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing movie of each clip and surpassed Cameron’s different film, Titanic. Avatar held that apical spot until Avengers: Endgame successful 2019, earlier regaining the pb with a Chinese re-release successful March 2021. The 2009 movie has present earned much than $2.9 cardinal astatine the container office. Avatar’s reign is acold from over, too.

After the occurrence of Avatar, a whopping 4 sequels person been greenlit. Fans person been waiting for implicit a decennary for Avatar: The Way Of Water and the movie is conscionable wrong reach. HollywoodLife has the latest updates astir the cast, filming, the plot, and more.

The archetypal ‘Avatar’ sequel volition beryllium released successful 2022. (The Everett Collection)

The Sequel To Avatar

The archetypal Avatar follows Jake Sully, a paraplegic Marine who has been dispatched to the satellite Pandora. He soon finds himself torn betwixt pursuing orders and protecting the radical of Pandora. The movie builds to an epic decision wherever Neytiri kills Colonel Miles Quaritch and is capable to prevention Jake from dying. She besides sees his quality assemblage for the archetypal time. Jake ends up staying connected Pandora to beryllium with Neytiri, and helium is permanently transferred into his Na’vi body.

Avatar 2 Release Date: When Is It Coming Out?

Avatar: The Way Of Water volition beryllium released successful theaters connected December 16, 2022. Avatar: The Way of Water reportedly has a tally clip of astir 3 hours and 10 minutes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Avatar sequel was expected to beryllium released connected December 17, 2021. However, owed to the COVID-19 pandemic, Avatar 2 and the further sequels were pushed back. The respective merchandise dates for Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5 are December 20, 2024; December 18, 2026; and December 22, 2028. James is directing, producing, and co-writing each 4 sequels.

Titles for the Avatar sequels — Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider, and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa — were leaked by BBC News. In 2019, Avatar manager James Cameron gave clarification astir the sequel titles. “Those titles are among titles that are successful consideration. And nary last decisions person been made yet,” helium told Entertainment Tonight.

The first teaser trailer was released connected May 9, 2022, and has been watched implicit 148 cardinal times. The footage showed a blessed Jake Sully and Neytiri starting a household together. Glimpses of CCH Pounder as Mo’at, Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge, Joel David Moore arsenic Norm Spellman, and Dileep Rao arsenic Dr. Max Patel were besides seen. Kate Winslet makes her debut arsenic Ronal, a caller quality successful the sequel.

Why Has Avatar 2 Taken So Long?

Avatar 2 has taken truthful agelong chiefly due to the fact that of the COVID-pandemic. However, manager James Cameron initially intended to release Avatar 2 arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2014. Production continued to beryllium delayed until it officially got underway successful 2017. In July 2020, the manager addressed the sequel’s latest hold successful a agelong connection to fans.

A connection from James Cameron.

Irayo, Na'vi Nation. Stay safe. 💙 pic.twitter.com/Uwi2J6xF4k

— Avatar (@officialavatar) July 23, 2020

“As galore of you are aware, owed to COVID-19, we were forced into an unexpected lengthy hold successful starting the unrecorded enactment filming we are presently doing successful New Zealand. What astir of you apt bash not cognize is that the pandemic is inactive preventing america from being allowed to recommence astir of our virtual accumulation enactment connected stages successful Los Angeles. That enactment is conscionable arsenic captious to the films arsenic the unrecorded enactment work.

He continued: “Prior to the COVID-19, everything was connected way to bring you the archetypal sequel successful December of 2021. Unfortunately, owed to the interaction that the pandemic has had connected our docket it is nary longer imaginable for america to marque that date. There is nary 1 much disappointed astir this hold than me. But I americium buoyed by the unthinkable performances of our formed and the bonzer enactment that Weta Digital is doing bringing the satellite of Pandora and the characters of the movie to life.”

James Cameron is astatine the helm of each the ‘Avatar’ sequels. (The Everett Collection)

James besides explained that the underwater question seizure process takes clip and patience. What the Avatar squad is doing successful the sequels has “never been done before,” helium revealed. “It’s precise tricky due to the fact that our question seizure system, similar astir question seizure systems, is what they telephone optical base, meaning that it uses markers that are photographed with hundreds of cameras,” helium continued successful his interrogation with Collider. “The occupation with h2o is not the underwater part, but the interface betwixt the aerial and the water, which forms a moving mirror. That moving reflector reflects each the dots and markers, and it creates a clump of mendacious markers. It’s a small spot similar a combatant level dumping a clump of chaff to confuse the radar strategy of a missile. It creates thousands of mendacious targets, truthful we’ve had to fig retired however to get astir that problem, which we did. Basically, whenever you adhd h2o to immoderate problem, it conscionable gets 10 times harder. So, we’ve thrown a batch of horsepower, innovation, imagination, and caller exertion astatine the problem, and it’s taken america astir a twelvemonth and a fractional present to enactment retired however we’re going to bash it.”

Old & New Faces

Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington volition beryllium backmost arsenic Neytiri and Jake Sully. Other returning formed members see CCH Pounder volition besides beryllium returning arsenic Mo’at, Giovanni Ribisi arsenic Parker Selfridge, Joel David Moore arsenic Norm Spellman, Dileep Rao arsenic Dr. Max Patel. In a precise absorbing move, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Matt Gerald volition each beryllium backmost successful Avatar 2, contempt the information that their characters died successful the archetypal Avatar movie.

Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are returning for ‘Avatar 2.’ (The Everett Collection)

Sigourney volition not beryllium playing her archetypal quality of Dr. Grace Augustine. James explained she volition playing a antithetic quality backmost successful 2014. “Sigourney and I person a agelong originative history, dating backmost to 1985 erstwhile we made Aliens,” the manager said in a statement. “We’re bully friends who’ve ever worked good together, truthful it conscionable feels close that she’s coming backmost for the Avatar sequels. Her quality of Grace Augustine, arsenic fans know, died successful the archetypal movie, truthful she’s playing a antithetic and successful galore ways much challenging quality successful the upcoming films. We’re some looking guardant to this caller originative challenge, the latest section successful our agelong and continuing collaboration.”

James confirmed successful 2013 that Stephen would beryllium backmost arsenic Col. Miles Quaritch. “Stephen was truthful memorable successful the archetypal film, we’re privileged to person him back,” James told Deadline. “I’m not going to accidental precisely HOW we’re bringing him back, but it’s a subject fabrication story, aft all. His quality volition germinate into truly unexpected places crossed the arc of our caller three-film saga. I truly look guardant to moving with specified a talented actor, who’s besides go a bully friend.”

Michelle Yeoh has joined the formed of the ‘Avatar’ sequels. (Shutterstock)

Avatar 2 volition diagnostic a fig of caller characters. Kate Winslet, who James notably worked with connected Titanic, plays a Na’vi named Ronal. Edie Falco is acceptable to play General Ardmore of the RDA, Jermaine Clement volition play marine biologist Dr. Ian Garvin, Cliff Curtis volition play Tonowari, and Michelle Yeoh volition play idiosyncratic Dr. Karina Mogue. Oona Chaplin and Vin Diesel person besides joined the formed successful enigma roles. However, we bash cognize that Oona’s quality is named Varang.

The sequel volition besides beryllium filled with younger formed members, who were revealed successful 2017 by Entertainment Weekly. The formed members see members of Sully’s household and children from different Na’vi clan called Metkayina. They reside connected elephantine oceanic atoll reefs nether the regularisation of Tonowari. The young formed includes Britain Dalton, Filip Geljo, Jamie Flatters, Bailey Bass, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, and Duane Evans Jr. Jack volition play Javier “Spider” Socorro, a quality teen calved astatine the Hell’s Gate subject complex.

“We ne'er had this youthful constituent before, and that brings a antithetic benignant of vigor to the film,” shaper Jon Landau told EW. “They correspond the aboriginal procreation of Pandora and play a precise important relation — not conscionable successful this movie but passim each the movies.”

Avatar 2 Plot

Plot details person been fewer and acold betwixt astir the archetypal Avatar sequel, but determination is immoderate accusation retired there. Avatar 2 volition chiefly absorption connected the Sully family. “This is the communicative of the Sully household and what 1 does to support their household together,” Jon Landau told RNZ. “Jake and Neytiri person a household successful this movie, they are forced to permission their home, they spell retired and research the antithetic regions of Pandora, including spending rather a spot of clip connected the water, astir the water, successful the water. I think, wherefore bash radical crook to amusement today, much truthful than ever? I deliberation it’s to escape, to flight the satellite we’re in, to flight the different pressures they person successful their lives.”

The authoritative synopsis reads, “Set much than a decennary aft the events of the archetypal film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to archer the communicative of the Sully household (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the occupation that follows them, the lengths they spell to support each different safe, the battles they combat to enactment alive, and the tragedies they endure.”

Jon besides stressed successful an interrogation with Collider that each of the Avatar movies volition basal connected their own. “Each movie is simply a standalone movie that we would wanna spell see,” helium said. “You don’t request to person seen the archetypal Avatar to see Avatar 2. It sits determination and we’re gonna instrumentality radical connected a ocular and an affectional travel that comes to its ain conclusion. Okay, measurement back. Is that a movie we would wanna marque conscionable arsenic a standalone story? Yes. Now we bash the aforesaid happening connected Movie 3, Movie 4, and Movie 5. What we person the luxury of on Avatar is the satellite of Pandora. We get to support it determination but everything tin beryllium new, we’re not treading caller ground.”

Avatar 2 volition diagnostic a plethora of underwater scenes. Kate Winslet made headlines erstwhile she broke Tom Cruise’s grounds for the longest underwater breath-hold successful a diagnostic movie portion filming Avatar 2. Kate bushed Tom by implicit a minute. “I had to larn however to free-dive to play that relation in Avatar, and that was conscionable incredible. My longest enactment clasp was 7 minutes and 14 seconds, similar crazy, brainsick stuff,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.

“It was superb and I was precise arrogant of myself and I’ll astir apt ne'er beryllium capable to bash it again,” Kate told Entertainment Tonight. “That came astatine the extremity of 4 weeks worthy of rather aggravated grooming and it was successful the dive tank, it was successful the grooming tank. But I loved it.”

Kate Winslet is reuniting with ‘Titanic’ manager James Cameron connected the ‘Avatar’ sequels. (Shutterstock)

A photo of Kate underwater was officially released successful October 2020. “I was walking connected the bottommost of the tank,” Kate told Collider astir the scene. “That’s a large ceremonial series with those immense dense wings. That was rather scary. The happening is, erstwhile you tin clasp your enactment for 7 minutes, you go unafraid. Actually, strangely, I was capable to trust connected my ain quality to clasp my enactment for that long. Somehow I was not afraid, astatine all.”

Avatar 3

Avatar 3’s merchandise day is presently December 20, 2024. The 2nd sequel was filmed simultaneously with Avatar 2 starting successful 2017. Back successful November 2018, James revealed successful a Twitter video that the main formed of Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 — Sam [Worthington], Zoe [Saldana], Sigourney [Weaver], Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet — had wrapped.

After reports that Harry Potter alum David Thewlis would beryllium successful Avatar 2, the histrion cleared things up successful a June 2020 interrogation with Collider. “I’m going to beryllium successful Avatar 3, which was changeable astatine the aforesaid clip as Avatar 2, and the program is that I volition beryllium in Avatar 4 and 5, arsenic well. I conscionable wanted to wide that up due to the fact that idiosyncratic got that incorrect recently,” helium said.

In September 2020, James revealed that helium was “sort of 95% implicit connected Avatar 3” during the 2020 Austrian World Summit. He noted that the squad was moving connected finishing the remainder of live-action filming. The manager admitted that accumulation mislaid “about 4 and a fractional months” owed to COVID-19 and said the pandemic “hit america similar it deed everybody, it deed america hard.”

Avatar 2 is already 1 of the astir highly-anticipated upcoming movies. The movie is definite to beryllium a blockbuster deed conscionable similar its predecessor. HollywoodLife volition support you posted connected the latest Avatar sequel updates.