After 13 years and quite a few delays, twentieth Century Studios has lastly launched a glimpse into James Cameron’s Avatar 2, due Dec. 16. This marks the long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time. The sequel’s official title is Avatar: The Way Of Water.
After being re-released final yr in China, the primary Avatar overtook Avengers: Endgame as essentially the most profitable movie of all time (in keeping with ticket gross sales) when its income surpassed US$2.8bil (RM12.27bil) globally. Its unique run within the United States was unprecedented, with the movie thriving in theatres for over 10 months.
The second Avatar is about to star most of the unique movie’s solid members, together with Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, Sigourney Weaver in a brand new position and Sam Worthington as Jake Sully. Joining the solid are Kate Winslet as Ronal, Michelle Yeoh as Dr. Karina Mogue and Oona Chaplin as Varang, amongst others. The new movie picks up the place the final left off, with Sully and Neytiri constructing their household on the planet of Pandora and preventing new threats to its burgeoning civilization.
Avatar 2 is scheduled for launch on December 16. Cameron initially stated he was aiming for a 2014 launch, which was pushed back seven instances till its present date later this yr. Shooting for the movie wrapped back in 2020 in tandem with Avatar 3, which is about for a 2024 launch. In his Variety Directors on Directors dialog with Denis Villeneuve back in December, Cameron stated he mixed the filming course of for the primary two sequels, plus “a little bit little bit of ‘4.’”
“We blended the schedules for ‘2’ and ‘3’ collectively, primarily based on the varieties of scenes and the environments,” Cameron stated. “I stated, let’s simply deal with it prefer it’s a six-hour miniseries and we’re solely going to go to Frankfurt as soon as. We’re going to shoot all of the scenes from ‘2’ and ‘3’ on the identical time. That was kind of the motif.” – Reuters
