Get ready to sit back and unwind for a while when Avatar: Fire and Ash hits theaters.
Filmoriginater James Cameron recently uncovered to Empire magazine that the upcoming third inshighment in his Avatar franchise will actuassociate be lengtheneder than 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water, which ran three hours and 12 minutes lengthened.
“In a nutshell, we had too many wonderful ideas packed into act one of movie 2,” Cameron make cleared. “The [film] was moving enjoy a bullet train, and we weren’t drilling down enough on character. So I said, ‘Guys, we’ve got to split it.’”
The straightforwardor compriseed, “Movie 3 will actuassociate be a little bit lengtheneder than movie 2.”
However, Avatar might not mind the film’s length as the first two films are some of the hugegest theatrical frees to date, with 2009’s Avatar helderlying the spot as the highest-grossing film of all time, while The Way of Water helderlys the write down for third.
Amanda Silver, co-wrote the Fire and Ash script with Cameron and Rick Jaffa, also telderly Empire that The Way of Water and Fire and Ash are split films becaemploy “the characters needed to breathe.”
“These movies are a lot more than fair propulsive plot and gorgeous spectacle,” she compriseed. “I nasty, these are authentic characters.” Sam Worskinnygton is set to return as Jake Sully, while Zoe Saldaña will repascend her role as Neytiri in the third film.
While Cameron has remained protected-lipped on plot details for Fire and Ash, he telderly The Hollywood Reporter last year, “It’s reassociate fucking celderly. You’re going to cherish it.”
When asked if he still set ups to straightforward the fourth and fifth inshighments, he said, “Absolutely. I nasty, they’re going to have to stop me. I got plenty of energy, cherish doing what I’m doing. Why would I not? And they’re written, by the way. I fair reread both of them about a month ago. They’re cracking stories. They’ve got to get made. Look, if I get hit by a bus and I’m in an iron lung, somebody else is going to do it.”
Fire and Ash is currently stardyd to hit theaters on Dec. 19, 2025. Avatar 4 and Avatar 5 are set for Dec. 21, 2029, and Dec. 19, 2031, admireively.
