As Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame continues to dominate cinemas for the time being, there are naturally other movies eyeing up the gap in the market that’ll be left when it’s gone. James Cameron’s Avatar 2 has been pushed to December 2021, and the subsequent three sequels will be released every other year after. The long-awaited sequel was originally set to release in 2020.
Released in 2009, Avatar was James Cameron’s epic return to directing feature films, over a decade after the massive success of Titanic. Cameron redirected his focus to underwater documentaries, like Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep, before making a record-breaking return to Hollywood, with Avatar becoming the first film to cross the $2 billion dollar mark (a feat Avengers: Endgame just achieved as well). Now, Cameron is returning to the Avatar franchise with four sequels in development, with the first film’s original cast set to return, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lange, Sigourney Weaver, and Giovanni Ribisi. However, fans will have to wait a bit longer for the first sequel, which was originally slated to release in 2020.
The followup to James Cameron’s Avatar has been highly anticipated pretty much since the first one came out way back in 2009. And while we may have already waited a decade to see those blue-skinned boyos again, it seems we’ve only got two years to wait now, as the sequel is set to hit cinemas on December 17, 2021.
If you think 12 years is a long time to wait for a sequel, it was originally going to be 13, but luckily for us they’ve pulled it forward. Like buses, it seems you wait ages for Cameron to release a sequel and suddenly four come at once, as not only is Avatar 2 coming in 2021, but we’ll also see Avatar 3 in 2023, Avatar 4 in 2025, and Avatar 5 in 2027.
Jedi fans will be happy too, as – after the already announced Rise of Skywalker – there’ll be three, as-yet-untitled Star Wars films released on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year, starting in 2022.
This means the studio is planning to alternate Star Wars and Avatar films every year from 2021 to 2027.
There’s also an upcoming adaptation of West Side Story from Steven Spielberg in 2020, while an origin story of Cruella de Vil, called Cruella, and starring Emma Stone, will launch the same year.
Get ready for Disney!
