Sam Worthington advised Individuals journal on the premiere of his Netflix heist thriller “Carry” that the solid of James Cameron‘s “Avatar” movies are gearing as much as return to manufacturing in February. The director is at the moment deep into post-production on “Avatar 3,” which Disney has given a 2025 launch date. Cameron has additionally shot all the live-action scenes for “Avatar 4” that happen earlier than a time soar within the story. The rest of the fourth movie nonetheless must be filmed.

“We return to work on it in a month and it’s large,” Worthington mentioned of the subsequent “Avatar” movies. “It’s greater than you possibly can think about.”

Cameron lately advised People magazine that “Avatar 3″ is “proper on observe” for its December 2025 launch date. The movie has been labored on since earlier than the second “Avatar” film, “Avatar: The Manner of Water,” opened in theaters in December 2022 and have become the third-highest grossing movie in historical past with $2.3 billion worldwide. Cameron shot “Avatar 3” and chunks of “Avatar 4” concurrently with “The Manner of Water” to make sure age continuity amongst his characters.

“We did the [motion capture] seize on three and the live-action pictures on three as an intermingled manufacturing with [‘Avatar: The Way of Water’], and we even did a part of film 4 as a result of our younger characters are all going to have an enormous time soar in film 4,” Cameron mentioned. “We see them after which we go away for six years and we come again. And so the half the place we come again is the half we haven’t shot but. So we’ll begin on that after three is launched.”

Contemplating Cameron mentioned filming the rest of “Avatar 4” received’t happen till “Avatar 3” opens, it seems Worthington and the solid is perhaps returning to Cameron’s studio subsequent month for “Avatar 3” post-production wants comparable to ADR dialogue substitute. Worthington wouldn’t disclose the specifics of his return.

Cameron has the remainder of “Avatar 4” and the whole thing of “Avatar 5” left to shoot. The third film was initially going to reach in 2024, however Disney delayed the franchise and scheduled “Avatar 3” for a Dec. 19, 2025, opening. “Avatar 4” is on observe for Dec. 21, 2029, adopted by “Avatar 5” on Dec. 19, 2031. Based mostly on this timeline, the ultimate “Avatar” film will premiere 22 years after the unique 2009 blockbuster.

“Three is definitely rather more easy than two,” Cameron told People in regards to the post-production course of. “Two, we acquired hit with the pandemic in the midst of it and we had been interrupted, after which we needed to reboot and reboot the manufacturing and all that form of factor. And it was a scramble to get it executed.”

In an interview final yr with GQ journal, Cameron mentioned that by increasing the story of “Avatar” throughout quite a few movies he’s in a position to craft a franchise that prioritizes its character as a lot because it does its technological breakthroughs.

“The massive [creative] advance in [‘Avatar 3’] is simply going to be better character depth,” Cameron mentioned. “We’re seeing new cultures, new creatures — all the identical stuff you’d anticipate from an ‘Avatar’ film, however the entire thought of this cycle of movies is to reside with these individuals and go on this epic journey with them. So I feel it’s not about, ‘We’re going to point out you the very best water [VFX] ever executed’ — however you get extra into the guts and soul of the characters. And there’s some very fascinating new characters that are available as properly. It is a journey over time. It’ll play out by film three, into film 4 and film 5. There’s an epic cycle to the entire thing.”

Not a lot is thought about “Avatar 3,” together with its official title, exterior of Cameron teasing that it’s going to introduce a extra antagonistic race of Na’vi. Franchise producer Jon Landau advised Empire journal interview final yr yr that “Avatar 3” will introduce the Ash Individuals, described by the publication as “an aggressive, volcanic race” of Na’vi whose chief is Varang, performed by “Recreation of Thrones” alum and Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter Oona Chaplin.