Edie Falco Joins James Cameron's AVATAR Sequels and She Could Be a New Villain
The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie star Edie Falco is headed to Pandora. It was announced today on Avatar’s official Twitter feed that the actress has been cast in the film and that she will take on a new character named General Ardmore. It’s explained that she is the commander in charge of RDA’s interests.
We are thrilled to share that Edie Falco is joining the #AvatarFamily as General Ardmore, the Commander in charge of the RDA's interests in the Avatar Sequels!
— Avatar (@officialavatar) February 6, 2019
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RDA stands for Resources Development Administration, and it’s “the largest single non-governmental organization in human space. Its power is such that it outmatches most of Earth governments in wealth, political influence, and military capability. The RDA has monopoly rights to all products shipped, derived, or developed from Pandora and any other off-Earth location. These rights were granted to the RDA in perpetuity by the Interplanetary Commerce Administration (ICA), with the stipulation that they abide by a treaty that prohibits weapons of mass destruction and limits military power in space.”
With that information, it’s not hard to assume that Falco will be playing a villainous character. She’s a great actress and it’s not hard to imagine her as a villain in this world. The production team is lucky to have her.
James Cameron has completed shooting Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, and the next two films have yet to start shooting. We don’t know what film that General Ardmore will show up in yet, but at this point it could be any of them.
Falco joins Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, CCH Pounder, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet and Oona Chaplin.
While we don’t have any plot details on the sequels, we know that Avatar 2 is set several years after Avatar. “At the center of each of our four movies will be the Sully family. Each sequel will play as a standalone 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.”
When previously talking about the films, Jon Landau opened up about the setting for the sequels saying:
“As we’ve moved on with the sequels to Avatar we made a very conscious decision to stage the whole four sequels on Pandora. We don’t need to go to another world if we want water, we’re going to go to the oceans of Pandora.
”It’s a continuation of the same characters, but what happen when warriors that are willing to go on suicide charges, and leap off cliffs on to the back of big orange toruks, what happens when they grow up and have their own kids? It becomes a very different story. Now the kids are the risk-takers and the change-makers. So, it’s interesting, but it makes sense to me. Everybody’s either a parent, or they had parents at the very least, and if you look at the big successful franchises now, they’re pretty much uninterested in that.”
It was also revealed that are different clans of Na’vi all over Pandora:
“We’re going to go to totally different environments, we’re going to meet different cultures. Just like our planet is as diverse culturally as we are environmentally. We want to introduce people to different cultures. In the first movie, we only met the Omaticaya clan, and they are the clan here allowing us to come to the Valley of Mo’ara. But as we venture out we’re going to different environments and different clans.”
Even though I’m not really excited about these sequels, I do hope that they turn out great and that the first sequel released generates some excitement for the future sequels.
Avatar 2 will hit theaters on December 18, 2020, followed by Avatar 3 on December 17, 2021; then Avatar 4 on December 20, 2024; and finally Avatar 5 on December 19, 2025.