Avatar 3, 4 and 5 are going to be “crazy”, teases Zoe Saldaña

“We thought Titanic would be his legacy, but it turns out it’s going to be Avatar,” says Neytiri’s interpreter about James Cameron.

At the very beginning of the year, Sam Worthington teased his return imminent on the set of the sequelsAvatar by stating about the three upcoming blockbusters: “It’s bigger than you imagine.”

This week is Stephen Lang which confirms the information: the interpreter of the villainous Quaritch found his performance capture suit on the New Zealand set. He doesn’t comment on his photo, but his Instagram post confirms that James Cameron is on time to be released as planned Avatar 3 in December 2025, then number 4 at the end of 2029 and finally the final opus in 2031.

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Interviewed by Collider on the occasion of the broadcast of Special Ops: Lionessby Taylor Sheridan, Zoe Saldana adds his stone to the building.

“It’s going to be amazing, affirms the interpreter of Neytiri. Avatar 3 is going to be awesome, then with 4 and 5 it will get even crazier. It’s true. (James Cameron) will turn your brain upside down. This is his legacy. We thought it would be Titanicbut it turns out that it will ultimately be Avatar, and to be part of such an innovative and creative work, that somehow makes it our legacy too. I’m very excited to come back. We’re going back to work next week, I can’t wait to see everyone again.”

For now, this is what we know about the aftermath ofAvatar and of The Way of Water : n°3 will be narrated by Lo’ak (Britain Dalton) and no longer by Jake Sully, and he will once again feature Na’Vis, the “People of Ashes”. We should find all the key characters from the second film there, and we know that there will be a jump in time in the middle of the fourth part, which explains why certain scenes from the last opuses have already been shot: thus the young actors were able to complete their crucial sequences to the plot before growing up, and changing too much physically.

“My model was what Peter Jackson did with The Lord of the Rings, detailed James Cameron about all its sequels at the time of the release of The Way of Water. It was a crazy bet in its time. And really congratulations to him. They seized the chance offered to them to launch on these three films at the same time. But he had the books as reference points, to show the actors what they needed to know about their character’s arc, for example. So I felt I had to do the same thing. It seems necessary to me to think Avatar as if the books already existed. So the only way to do it was to write all the scripts and let the actors read all the scripts. So they could see where their characters were going and what it all meant. Nothing that they couldn’t actually play in the moment, but I think it was something that the actors had to incorporate into their preparation for their characters.”

“The actors knew we were going to film little bits of the sequels here and there, he continued. Not necessarily in order. We once shot parts ofAvatar 2one day parts ofAvatar 3another part ofAvatar 4. It was a challenge, but it’s no different than when you’re working on a limited series for example, which spans 6 hours or 8 hours. It was the right way to approach it with my actors, and also so that they saw the purpose of the thing, so that they were motivated and enthusiastic. Because the story is amazing. By the time we arrive at Avatar 4 And 5 – if we are lucky enough to get that far – it will have to work !”

He too was already teasing sequels “crazy”as Zoe Saldaña now says: “When I submitted the script for Avatar 2, the studio returned three pages of notes to me. Then when I gave them the script for Avatar 3, they only gave me back a page of notes. I think I was improving. And finally I submitted the scriptAvatar 4, and there was no note! The head of the studio, the creative director of the films, just wrote me an email that said: ‘Holy shit!’ Those are my grades! Because it’s getting crazy in a good way, right?”

Since the release of the second part, Cameron has also hinted that he could leave the controls ofAvatar 4 Or 5 has “a trusted director”, but for the moment, it is he who leads number 3.

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