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Avatarfans now have a longer wait before venturing back to Pandora.
Avatar 3will now be in theaters Dec. 19, 2025;Avatar 4on Dec. 21, 2029; andAvatar 5on Dec. 19, 2031, according toVarietyandThe Hollywood Reporter.
Meanwhile, on the Marvel Studios side,Avengers: The Kang Dynastyis now scheduled for release on May 1, 2026, andAvengers: Secret Warswill open May 7, 2027.
Producer Jon Landauwroteon Twitter Tuesday, “EachAvatarfilm is an exciting but epic undertaking that takes time to bring to the quality level we as filmmakers strive for and audiences have come to expect. The team is hard at work and can’t wait to bring audiences back to Pandora in December 2025.”
Paul Rudd as Ant-Man and Jonathan Majors as Kang inAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania(2023).Jay Maidment/MARVEL
DirectorJames Cameron’s firstAvatarmovie hit theaters in 2009, and the long-awaited second installment,Avatar: The Way of Water, debuted 13 years later in December 2022. The top 3 biggest box office hauls of all time consist ofAvatar,Avengers: EndgameandAvatar: The Way of Water.
Cameron, 68, previously said he’s committed to continuing theAvatarfranchise himself, though he toldColliderin December that he’d be open to passing the torch to another director one day.
“I think there are a lot of good filmmakers out there and a lot of good filmmakers that understand how to do CG and animation and world-building and all that sort of thing. I think that what I would look for is somebody that is willing to be humble before the specific craft of how you make one of these films,” he said.
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“Because it’s taken us, at this point, 16 years to figure it out, and we’re still learning day to day. So it would take time to transfer that knowledge,” added Cameron.
TheTitanicdirector continued, “But, I think, in respect to the studio that’s writing these massive checks to create this world, this persistent world, I think it’s good for us to have at least some kind of a plan to hand that over.”
Cameron noted that “nobody lives forever” and he one day “might have to step back.”
“I don’t want that to be the case, obviously, Iwant to do all five of them myself,” he said. “I think it would be good to have some kind of a plan in place to be able to turn the reins over.”
source: people.com
