Earlier than Avatar: The Means of Water hit theaters in December 2022, director James Cameron was already largely accomplished with the third movie within the franchise.
Cameron defined to Leisure Weekly that he shot components of the franchise’s third and fourth installments to keep away from “the Stranger Issues impact,” a.ok.a., little one actors drastically rising in between movies.
“They’re all presupposed to nonetheless be in highschool [but] they seem like they’re 27,” the director mentioned in December 2022 of the Netflix collection. “You understand, I really like the present. It’s OK, we’ll droop disbelief. We just like the characters, however, you already know.”
Cameron went on to explain The Means of The Water star Jack Champion — who performs human teen Spider — as a “rising weed.” He added: “We shot with Jack when he was 14 and 15, virtually as much as 16. So we had been taking pictures him over an 18-month interval.”
In August 2024, Cameron informed D23 Expo attendees that that the threequel is formally titled Avatar: Hearth and Ash. “You’ll see much more Pandora that you just by no means noticed earlier than … It’s an insane journey and a feast for the eyes, but it surely’s additionally obtained very excessive emotional stakes, greater than ever earlier than,” Cameron mentioned in the course of the presentation. “We’re going into actually difficult territory for all of the characters you already know and love.”
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