With a new December 2020 release date in place, and cast members likeOona Chaplinrecently coming aboard, the production start date forAvatar 2has finally been revealed. Producer Jon Landau spoke at the CineEurope conference in Barcelona, Spain today, where he stated that principal photography will begin July 22, 2025. Pre-production has already been under way in New Zealand since April, when the franchise’s Facebook page shared a photo of the immense team working with director James Cameron and producer Jon Landau. Here’s what Jon Landau had to say in a statement about these sequels, and how they will connect to the originalAvatarblockbuster.
“At the heart of any movie are the characters. One of the strengths of great scripts are always the universal and relatable themes. There’s no more relatable theme than family. At the center of each of our four movies will be the Sully family. Each sequel will play as a stand-alone movie. Each movie’s story will come to its own conclusion. However, when looked at as a whole, the journey across all four movies will create an even larger connected epic saga for audiences around the world.”
Jon Landaualso confirmed at CineEurope, viaDeadline, that the decision was made during development to set all of theAvatarsequels in the magical land ofPandora, stating that, “we always knew that Pandora was a place as diverse as Earth.” The producer also touched upon how the sequels that James Cameron makes are often better than the original, which he thinks can be achieved withAvatar 2. Here’s what the producer had to say below.
“(James Cameron) has done a couple of sequels before in his career and I would argue that those sequels have lived up to, if not exceeded, the original movies. That’s what Jim has been working on for the last several years. Finally, we have the four scripts for theAvatar filmsready.”
Avatarstars Sam Worthington (Jake Sully), Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), Stephen Lang (Colonel Miles Quatrich), Sigourney Weaver (Dr. Grace Augustine) and Joel David Moore (Norm Spellman) have signed on to reprise their roles, alongside new cast membersCliff Curtis(Tonowari) and Oona Chaplin (Varang). TheAvatarsequels have been delayed countless times over the years, but now with a concrete production start in place, it seems the release date shuffling has finally ended.Avatar 2will hit theaters August 13, 2025, followed byAvatar 3on July 11, 2025,Avatar 4on July 17, 2025 andAvatar 5on June 12, 2025. Hopefully we’ll have more casting news forAvatar 2soon, now that a production start date has finally been set.
