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Release Date:
Friday, December 16, 2022 Nationwide
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Disney+
sequences of strong violence and intense action, partial nudity and some strong language
Plot: What's the story about?
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
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Who stars in Avatar: The Way of Water: Cast List
Sam Worthington ... Jake Sully
Breathe, Horizon: An American Saga
Zoe Saldana ... Neytiri
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Absence of Eden
Sigourney Weaver ... Grace Augustine
Avatar 3, Red Lights
Stephen Lang ... Colonel Quaritch
Avatar 3, Avatar
Cliff Curtis ... Tonowari
The Meg, Avatar 3
Avatar 3, Avatar 4
Matt Gerald ... Corporal Lyle Wainfleet
Avatar 3, Rampage
Avatar 3, Avatar 4
The Baker, Some Other Woman
Britain Dalton ... Lo’ak Sully
Avatar 3, Avatar 4
Filip Geljo ... Aonung Metkayina
Avatar 3, Avatar 4
Jamie Flatters ... Neteyam Sully
Avatar 3, Avatar 4
Who's making Avatar: The Way of Water: Crew List
A look at the Avatar: The Way of Water behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director James Cameron last directed The Abyss and Avatar. The film's writer James Cameron last wrote Alita: Battle Angel and Sanctum.
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James CameronJon Landau
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Production: What we know about Avatar: The Way of Water?
Key Facts
- As Lightstorm Entertainment’s Jon Landau explains, "One of the strengths of great scripts are always the universal and relatable themes… There’s no more relatable theme than family. At the center of each of our four movies will be the Sully family. Each sequel will play as a stand-alone movie. Each movie’s story will come to its own conclusion… However, when looked at as a whole, the journey across all four movies will create an even larger connected epic saga for audiences around the world (CineEurope, 6/20/17).”
- Avatar future installments will take place underwater (Deadline.com, 5/8/17).
- Fear the Walking Dead‘s Cliff Curtis will play Tonowari, who is the leader of the Metkayina, the reef people clan (Deadline.com, 5/8/17).
- Originally pegged for Christmas 2018, the film has been delayed further (Hollywood Reporter, 3/10/17). As James Cameron explained, "Well, 2018 is not happening. We haven’t announced a firm release date. What people have to understand is that this is a cadence of releases. So, we’re not making Avatar 2, we’re making Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5. It’s an epic undertaking. It’s not unlike building the Three Gorges dam."
- The Wrap (1/22/15) says Avatar 2 has been delayed "indefinitely." Meaning the original December 2017 release date is off the table.
- Chatting with Entertainment Weekly, James Cameron has given a new update on the state of Avatar 2, Avatar 3 and Avatar 4: "I'm in the process of doing another pass through all three scripts right now. Just refining. That's in parallel with the design process. The design processors very mature at this point. We've been designing for about a year and a half. All the characters, settings and creatures are all pretty much [set] (EW, 12/2015)."
- Lightstorm Entertainment will work once again with Joe Letteri and his team at WETA Digital on the three films.
- 20th Century Fox will make three Avatar sequels. The three pictures will be filmed simultaneously with production beginning in 2013. The release of the first sequel will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later (Deadline.com, 8/1/13).
Filming Timeline
- 2022 - October: The film was set to Completed status.
- 2019 - April: The film was set to Post-Production status.
- 2017 - April: The film was set to Production status.
Shooting commenced April 2017 on four concurrent Avatar sequels.
- 2017 - March: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5 will all be filmed together.
- 2015 - December: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
James Cameron has plans to make three sequels back to back - lots of pre-production work needed.
- 2013 - October: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
- 2013 - August: The film was set to Development status.
War Of The Worlds scribe Josh Friedman has been hired to work on the screenplay.
- 2011 - April: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
- 2010 - October: The film was set to Development status.
- 2010 - October: The film was set to Announced status.
- 2009 - December: The film was set to Concept status.
Avatar: The Way of Water Release Date: When was the film released?
Avatar: The Way of Water was a Nationwide release in 2022 on Friday, December 16, 2022. There were 19 other movies released on the same date, including Spoiler Alert, As Good as Dead and Black Adam.
Avatar: The Way of Water DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
Avatar: The Way of Water was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 .
