‘Avatar 3’: The New Release Date, Cast, & Everything Else You Need To Know

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Image Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Avatar 3 will beryllium released December 19, 2025. James Cameron directed the film. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña prima successful the film.

There’s a batch of hype for Avatar 3, aft the archetypal 2 films wholly dominated astatine the container office. But fans person to hold a portion until they get the adjacent sequel successful manager James Cameron‘s subject fabrication franchise. Disney announced connected June 13 that the 3rd movie has been delayed until 2025. As disappointing arsenic that is, it’s inactive not arsenic agelong arsenic the 13-year spread betwixt 2009’s Avatar and 2022’s Avatar: The Way Of Water.

Avatar is astir Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic Marine dispatched to the satellite Pandora, wherever helium meets the inhabitants known arsenic the Na’vi. The 3rd movie is expected to present an antagonistic radical of the Na’vi, called the Ash People. From the film’s merchandise date, to the plot, here’s everything you request to cognize about Avatar 3.

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Avatar 3 Release Date

Avatar 3 is acceptable to get successful theaters connected December 19, 2025. The merchandise day has changed 9 times. The movie was expected to travel retired December 20, 2024, earlier it was delayed, again, connected June 13, amidst the ongoing writers strike. The rumored rubric for the 3rd movie is Avatar: The Seed Bearer.

Avatar 3 Cast

Michelle Yeoh is starring successful ‘Avatar 3’ (Photo: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)

Avatar 3 features an ensemble formed led by Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana. Sam plays the quality Jake Sully portion Zoe plays Jake’s Na’vi wife, Neytiri. Other returning formed members see Sigourney Weaver arsenic Kiri Sully, Stephen Lang arsenic Colonel Miles Quaritch, Giovanni Ribisi arsenic Parker Selfridge, Joel David Moore arsenic Dr. Norm Spellman, CCH Pounder arsenic Mo’at, Kate Winslet arsenic Ronal, Edie Falco arsenic General Frances Ardmore, Jack Champion arsenic Miles “Spider” Socorro, Cliff Curtis arsenic Tonowari, Dileep Rao arsenic Dr. Max Patel, Britain Dalton arsenic Lo’ak, Brendan Cowell arsenic Captain Mick Scoresby, and Jermaine Clement arsenic Dr. Ian Garvin.

New faces are popping up in Avatar 3, arsenic well. Oscar victor Michelle Yeoh is joining the franchise arsenic Dr. Karina Mogue, a quality scientist. Game of Thrones alum Oona Chaplin is playing Varang, person of the Ash People. David Thewlis has been formed arsenic a Na’vi character.

What Will Avatar 3 Be About?

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Director James Cameron teased the Avatar 3 plot successful an interrogation with the French paper 20 Minutes. “The occurrence volition beryllium represented by the ‘Ash People.’ I privation to amusement the Na’vi from different space because, truthful far, I person lone shown their bully sides,” James said successful the interview. “In the aboriginal films, determination are precise antagonistic quality examples and precise affirmative Na’vi examples. In Avatar 3, we volition bash the opposite.” The famous director added, “We volition besides research caller universes portion continuing the communicative of the main characters. I tin accidental that the past parts volition beryllium the best. The others were an introduction, a mode to acceptable the array earlier serving the meal.”

Producer Jon Landau teased much astir the Ash People’s relation successful the 3rd movie to Empire magazine. “There are bully humans and determination are atrocious humans. It’s the aforesaid happening connected the Na’vi side,” helium explained. “Oftentimes, radical don’t spot themselves arsenic bad. What is the basal origin of however they germinate into what we comprehend arsenic bad? Maybe determination are different factors determination that we aren’t alert of.”

James Cameron has besides confirmed that Jake Sully won’t narrate the 3rd film. Avatar 3 volition beryllium narrated by Jake and Neytiri’s 2nd son, Lo’ak. “Lo’ak truly emerged arsenic a quality that radical went with,” James said connected Edith Bowman’s podcast, Soundtracking, successful January 2023. “So I mightiness find ways to benignant of—now, he’s already the narrator—oh, I’m giving thing distant here. But it’s OK,” James added. “I deliberation it could beryllium intriguing for radical to deliberation astir what’s coming.”

Avatar 3 Filming

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It’s been confirmed that astir of Avatar 3‘s filming was done during accumulation on Avatar 2. In an interrogation with Variety before the 2nd film’s release, James Cameron said the still-unfinished 3rd movie is “a spot shadowy” and is “way excessively long.” He continued, “I haven’t truly turned my vigor into a disciplined cutting process connected that yet. But I cognize I’ve got the performances. That’s the important thing. I’ve done each the capture. I’ve done astir of the unrecorded enactment shooting. I inactive beryllium a small spot connected immoderate of the big characters. We were much acrophobic with the kids aging out.”

Jon Landau revealed that they changeable “95 percent” of Avatar 3, successful a Dec. 2022 interrogation with Collider. “We person a small spot that we person to inactive prime up,” helium shared.

Avatar Sequels

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Avatar 3 is the midway constituent of the movie franchise. Avatar 4 and Avatar 5 are coming retired successful theaters connected December 21, 2029 and December 19, 2031, respectively. Most of the cast, including Sam Worthington and Zoe Salanda, are returning for the last 2 movies. The archetypal enactment of Avatar 4 has already been shot, according to Jon Landau’s Collider interview. The rumored rubric for Avatar 4 is Avatar: The Tulkun Rider. Jon Landau confirmed that there’s going to beryllium a clip leap earlier the 4th film.

The rumored rubric for Avatar 5 is Avatar: The Quest for Eywa. Jon Landau revealed successful an interview with io9 that the 5th Avatar film would diagnostic Zoe Saldana’s quality Neytiri visiting Earth. “In movie 5 determination is simply a conception of the communicative wherever we spell to Earth. And we spell to it to unfastened people’s eyes, unfastened Neytiri’s eyes, to what exists connected Earth,” helium revealed.

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