'It’s bigger than you can imagine': Sam Worthington says 'Avatar 3' shooting will begin in a month's time
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Sam Worthington has given an update on ‘Avatar 3’ after James Cameron said that the movie is “right on track.”
The Australian actor during the premiere of his Netflix heist thriller ‘Lift’, said, “We go back to work on it in a month and it’s big. It’s bigger than you can imagine.”
Timeline of 'Avatar' and its sequels
The movie is scheduled for a December 2025 release. “We did the [motion capture] capture on three and the live-action photography on three as an intermingled production with [‘Avatar: The Way of Water’], and we even did part of movie four because our young characters are all going to have a big time jump in movie four,” Cameron said earlier.
“We see them and then we go away for six years and we come back. And so the part where we come back is the part we haven’t shot yet. So we’ll start on that after three is released," Cameron added.
The celebrated filmmaker shot ‘Avatar 3’ and ‘Avatar 4’ simultaneously which was aimed to show age continuity among its cast members, reports Variety.
It is reported that the third edition was set to hit theatres in 2024, but Disney delayed the franchise and scheduled ‘Avatar 3’ for a December 19, 2025, opening.
‘Avatar 4’ is set for December 21, 2029, which is followed by ‘Avatar 5’ on December 19, 2031. The original 'Avatar' flick came in 2009.
James Cameron spoke about technology advancement and building characters
Cameron told People, “Three is actually much more straightforward than two. Two, we got hit with the pandemic in the middle of it and we were interrupted, and then we had to reboot and reboot the production and all that sort of thing. And it was a scramble to get it done.”
‘The Terminator’ director in an interview with GQ said, “The big [creative] advance in [‘Avatar 3’] is just going to be greater character depth,” Cameron said referring to expansion of the story and birth of the franchise.
“We’re seeing new cultures, new creatures — all the same stuff you’d expect from an ‘Avatar’ movie, but the whole idea of this cycle of films is to live with these people and go on this epic journey with them. So I think it’s not about, ‘We’re going to show you the best water [VFX] ever done’ — but you get more into the heart and soul of the characters. And there’s some very interesting new characters that come in as well. This is a journey over time. It will play out through movie three, into movie four and movie five. There’s an epic cycle to the whole thing,” he added.
