Director James Cameron reveals that Avatar 3 will see the characters faced with more challenges, trials, and tribulations.
At the 2024 Saturn Awards, James Cameron reveals that some Avatar 3 details, saying that it will be a lot more challenging for the characters that we have grown to love. After an intense and high stakes Avatar 2, fans can only imagine what that means.
James Cameron Teases More Challenges In Avatar 3
Tessa Smith: Is there anything you can tease about Avatar 3?
James Cameron: It’s a continuation of the epic. You’ll see new environments, new characters, the characters that you know and love will be challenged even more and go through some trials and tribulations. I think it’s going to be a tougher ride than [Avatar 2], in a good way.
Tessa Smith: Can you talk about the advancements in technology that helped you out in making the sequels to the first Avatar?
James Cameron: We spent about eight years developing the tools. So we released the first Avatar in 2009, it played in 2010, we got busy, we didn’t start shooting the second and third film together until September of 2017. And that intervening time period was creating a whole new toolset, to do water, to do the characters with 100% accuracy to the emotion and performance of the actors. So it was quite a technical development. And then it’s just a long painstaking process. You know, the capture itself goes fairly, kind of, normally like about at the pace of a normal movie. And then after that, there’s a very long post production tail, where you make everything look 100% real.
Avatar 3 is set to release in theaters on December 19th, 2025.
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