New Photo From the Set of James Cameron's AVATAR Sequels Features a Ship Called The Sea Dragon
Director James Cameron has wrapped on the last day of filming the Avatar sequels in 2019, and to celebrate the occasion, a photo from the set was released. This photo gives us a look at a “massive mothership” called the Sea Dragon, which “carries an array of other sea-going craft in the sequels.”
I would love to visit the set of this film to see all of the cool stuff Cameron is doing for these sequels. Disney/Fox is investing a ton of money into these films, and it’ll be interesting to see if after all these years there is still a big market for it. I personally don’t think the films will do as well as the studio is hoping, but we’ll see. Regardless, as a fan of Cameron, I’m curious to see how these films turn out and it would be cool if they ended up exceeding expectations.
The Avatar sequels are bringing back the original cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Joel David Moore, Dileep Rao, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, and Matt Gerald. They will be joined by the new cast members that include Kate Winslet, Edie Falco, Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel, Jemaine Clement, 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.”
Avatar 2 will hit theaters on December 17, 2021, followed by Avatar 3 on December 22, 2023; then Avatar 4 on December 19, 2025; and finally Avatar 5 on December 17, 2027.