Avatar: The Way of Water: Where The Third Film Could Go

As James Cameron's long-awaited sci-fi fantasy sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, becomes a global blockbuster, having just passed $900 million at the box office, speculation about what's in store in the third installment, due on December 20, 2024, has begun. What is known so far about the next film in the Avatar franchise is that Cameron began filming it in 2017 alongside the second entry, and it was written by Cameron with Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno. The movie is re-uniting the series' leading players including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, and Sigourney Weaver, as well as the supporting sideline characters played by Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, and Jemaine Clement. It was also recently announced that Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis have joined the cast, and Cameron has said that the film's title might be Avatar: The Seed Bearer. Cameron also recently revealed that he has assembled a nine-hour cut of Avatar 3, so it can be speculated that a lot is going to happen the third time around. As both Avatar films have featured a lot of world-building to immerse audiences into the culture and environment of the Na'vi through the land and sea of Pandora, it would seem that scenarios involving the skies and a storyline involving the humans on Earth may be in store for the next film. A New Route Narratively for the Na'vi Could Arise in Avatar 3 Walt Disney Co As the second film was dominated by our blue protagonists with humans taking a back seat, with less than a third of the film's running time getting their focus, a greater balance in the narrative that could generate a crucial conflict in the fight between the Na'vi and the Sky People is a possible thread that Cameron and crew could pull in Avatar 3. While, over the course of the first two Avatars, we've witnessed former human, Worthington's Jake Sully, join a Na'vi tribe and raise a family with his wife, Saldaña's Neytiri, we've experienced his otherworldly development. To continue Jake's journey, via the spectacle that Cameron is intent on topping on each entry, the third film must up-end the set formula of the first films and throw in some surprises in the story-telling. Otherwise, the familiarity that served the sequel well will falter as audiences will be itching for twists in Avatar 3. Movie-goers will be well aware that a fourth, and a fifth will follow the third film, in 2026 and 2028 respectively, so the third movie has its work cut out for it for setting up the arc that will carry through the epic series. That arc is heavily implied in Cameron's aforementioned tentative title, Avatar: The Seed Bearer, which plants notions of major story elements; presumably an important, Avatar-verse-shaking direction for the franchise that could mean a ginormous cliffhanger to look forward to on Christmas 2024. 20th Century Fox/Lightstorm Entertainment It's pretty certain that there will be new biomes for our characters and Cameron's lenses to explore in the spate of upcoming Avatar adventures as the franchise's producer, Landau, told Entertainment Weekly's Jessica Wang.

'Each movie is going to introduce audiences to new clans, new cultures on Pandora. Once we introduce a character, they stay a part of the ongoing evolution. We just add to it. So you can expect to see the Metkayina that you meet in this movie in subsequent movies. There are other clans that we'll introduce in movie 3 that you'll see in movie 4 and so on and so forth." Before the release of Avatar: The Way of Water, when it wasn't known if the sequel would be celebrating the global success it's currently bathing in, Cameron posited that the third film would be the final entry, the conclusion of an Avatar trilogy, if the second one flopped. Now that the sequel is currently smashing box office records, Cameron's series plans can go forward with his schedule of timed, immaculately prepared epics set to arrive at two-year intervals from here on out. Of course, if Avatar 3 underperforms, that might throw a wrench in Cameron's works, but from all the rage, response, and especially the huge receipts from Avatar: The Way of Water that is presently dominating the landscape of cinema, it can be predicted that the public's still has a great appetite for the pleasures of Pandora and will for many moons. As the eye-popping visuals of Cameron's creations in the beyond lushly lucrative sequel are still fresh in the eyes of movie-goers, we've got a lot of time to absorb the imagery, process the premises, and just simply enjoy the experience, but one can't help but want to fast-forward two years as we all know that the third time is often the real charm. Let's all just have some patience, and rest assured that Cameron has an intricately arranged game plan stuffed with otherworldly surprises that will be well worth waiting for.