History repeats itself: Avatar 2: The Way of Water was released eight years after its original release date. The start was constantly delayed for various reasons. Avatar 3 now faces a similar fate: As reported by the reliable Hollywood Reporter, is coming Avatar 3 not until December 2025 to the cinemas. The plan was December 2024.
Those are all of the new start dates for Avatar 3 through 5
This brings Avatar 5, arguably the final installment in the series, into the next decade for the first time and will start more than 20 years after Avatar Pandora. Incredible dimensions.
The new Starts are:
The original Starts were:
What are the reasons for the delay of the Avatar movies?
At the moment we can only speculate about the cause. Avatar producer Jon Landau wrote on Twitter, without direct reference to the delay: It takes time to reach the level of quality that filmmakers strive for. Avatar 2 had been in development for almost 5 years, but Avatar 3 was mostly filmed in December 2022, it said. On the other hand, the work on an Avatar film only begins after shooting. Hardly any other project requires so much post-production, i.e. fine-tuning of the special effects and the like.
Another possible reason for the delay is even optimistic: Until the successful launch of Avatar 2, parts 4 and 5 were not guaranteed. If it was a failure or even an average success, Disney might have canceled the films. The financial risk is enormous, these films are expensive.
However, Avatar 2 met all expectations and even slightly exceeded them. Director James Cameron and Studio Disney now have planning security. This may have affected the entire future of the Avatar 2 series, the design of the filming schedules, the story, the characters and so on.
In other words, having Avatar 3 through 5 postponed is final confirmation that we’ll see parts 4 and 5 at all. And if we have to wait until the next decade.
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