Sam Worthington Talks About AVATAR Sequels and Says "It's Bigger Than You Can Imagine"
Sam Worthington recently offered a brief update on James Cameron’s Avatar sequels. He shares when the sequels start production and what we can expect from the scale of the sequels. He told People Magazine:
“We go back to work on it in a month and it’s big. It’s bigger than you can imagine.”
The first two films are already really big and have an awesome and epic scale to them. It’s going to be interesting to see how much bigger Cameron is going to take this thing! The director is currently deep into post-production on Avatar 3, which Disney will release in 2025.
Cameron has also also shot all of the live-action scenes for Avatar 4 which takes place before a time jump in the story. The remainder of the fourth film still has yet to be filmed, which is what they are going to start with when the team gets back to work.
Cameron previously said in an interview that Avatar 3 is “right on track” for its December 2025 release date. He added:
“We did the [motion capture] capture on three and the live-action photography on three as an intermingled production with [‘Avatar: The Way of Water’], and we even did part of movie four because our young characters are all going to have a big time jump in movie four. We see them and then we go away for six years and we come back. And so the part where we come back is the part we haven’t shot yet. So we’ll start on that after three is released.”
While Cameron said that filming the rest of Avatar 4 won’t happen until Avatar 3 opens, according to Worthington plans have changed and they will get back to work sooner rather than later.
Cameron previously offered some insight into Avatar 3 and who the film will focus on, saying: “Lo’ak really emerged as a character that people went with. So I might find ways to…he’s already the narrator. I’m giving away something here, but this is OK. I think it could be intriguing for people to think about what’s coming. Jake was our voiceover narrator for movie one and for movie two, and we have a different narrator for each of the subsequent films. We see it through the eyes of a different character. Movie three is through Lo’ak’s eyes.”
Cameron also teased the fire element of the third film and revealed that two new cultures would be introduced, saying: “Fire has a symbolic purpose in the film and there’s a culture that is specifically around that concept. That’s probably saying too much as we speak.”
Cameron previously talked a little bit about the representation of fire in Avatar 3, saying: “To show cultures different from those I have already shown. The fire will be represented by the ‘Ash People.’ I want to reveal the Na’vi from another angle because, for the moment, I have only shown their good sides. In the early films, there are very negative human examples and very positive Na’vi examples. In Avatar 3, we’ll have the opposite.”
The filmmaker went on to reveal that two other new cultures will be introduced in the next movie, saying: “You’re going to meet two completely new cultures in the next film. We met the Omaticaya, we met the Metkayina, and you’re going to meet two new cultures in the next film, and it kind of rove a little more freely around the world of Pandora to different places.”
The movie stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Kate Winslet.