Now set to hit theaters in December 2025, 2029, and 2031 are the “Avatar” sequels.
The wait to return to Pandora is now lengthier for Avatar enthusiasts.
The third Avatar film and the impending Avengers: The Kang Dynasty sequel will now both be released one year later than originally planned, according to a number of sites on Tuesday.
According to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Avatar 3 will now be released in theaters on December 19, 2025, followed by Avatar 4 on December 21, 2029, and Avatar 5 on December 19, 2031.
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars will now both be released by Marvel Studios on May 1 and May 7, respectively.
“Each Avatar film 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,” producer Jon Landau posted on Twitter on Tuesday. The staff is working diligently and is eager to welcome visitors back to Pandora in December 2025.
The original Avatar film, directed by James Cameron, appeared in theaters in 2009, while Avatar: The Way of Water, the eagerly anticipated sequel, debuted 13 years later in December 2022. Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, and Avatar: The Way of Water are the top 3 highest box office earnings of all time.
Although the 68-year-old Cameron has stated that he is committed to carrying on the Avatar series by himself, he did admit to Collider in December that he would be open to handing the baton to another director in the future.
“I believe there are many competent filmmakers out there, including many who are adept at using computer graphics, animation, world-building, and other similar techniques. What I would be looking for, in my opinion, is someone who is prepared to show humility in the face of the particular craft involved in producing one of these movies, the actor remarked.
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“Because we’ve been learning new things every day and it’s taken us, at this point, 16 years to figure it out. So, Cameron continued, “Transferring that information would take time.
The Titanic filmmaker went on to say, “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.”
Nobody “lives forever,” according to Cameron, and he “might have to step back at some point.”
I definitely want to do all five of them myself, therefore I don’t want that to be the case,” he remarked. “I believe that having a plan in place would be beneficial in order to be able to hand over the reins.”
