James Cameron confirmed at the moment that he and Kate Winslet are working collectively once more on Avatar 3, the third movie within the director’s $5 billion-and-counting franchise. Cameron not too long ago stated the undertaking’s publish manufacturing schedule was “hectic,” however the movie is due out “Christmas of ’25.”
Cameron stated in an interview with Folks that Winslet will as soon as once more play Ronal. Whereas Winslet’s involvement in Avatar: The Approach of Water was comparatively minimal, it feels like she may have extra to do within the third movie.
The director stated Winslet “went to high school” with a real-life shaman to study extra about she is going to make use of within the 2025 launch.
“If you see her doing that purification ritual to attempt to revive Kitty within the movie and a number of the stuff that she’s going to do in film three, that’s primarily based on precise observe,” he stated.
It is smart that we’d see extra of Ronal, given Cameron advised GQ at the moment that “the large [creative] advance on this film is simply going to be higher character depth.”
Right here’s a fuller quote from him on that:
“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 stay 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 center and soul of the characters. And there’s some very fascinating new characters that are available as nicely. This can be a journey over time. It’ll play out via film three, into film 4 and film 5. There’s an epic cycle to the entire thing.”
