Disney delays Avatar 2, sets dates for three more in the series - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/hollywood/disney-delays-avatar-2-sets-dates-for-three-star-wars-films/ar-AAB2meJ?li=AAggbRN LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co on Tuesday pushed back the release of science-fiction sequel "Avatar 2" by a year to December 2021 and announced it will debut new "Star Wars" films in December 2022, 2024 and 2026. Disney acquired the "Avatar" franchise and several other films through its recent purchase of film and TV assets from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. "Avatar 2," the follow-up to the 2009 blockbuster that is the highest-grossing film of all time, had originally been slated for release in 2014 but was delayed to 2017 and then to December 2020. Disney said the second installment would be followed by "Avatar 3" in December 2023, "Avatar 4" in December 2025 and "Avatar 5" in December 2027. A year ago, director James Cameron told reporters he had begun filming on the second and third "Avatar" movies and had written the fourth and fifth films in the series. Disney did not reveal details about the coming "Star Wars" movies. The company has previously announced plans for two film series - one overseen by "The Last Jedi" director Rian Johnson and another to be written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of HBO’s hit television show "Game of Thrones."

Riiiiight... I forgot that Avatar has such a deep universe that there are enough content for 4 sequels.

I've been hearing about more avatars being planned since forever, at this point I feel like it'll never come out, let alone the next three that are supposedly planned I think I'm quite content with it being delayed forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNfhOEYg80c

they should jump the shark and have xenomorphs show up in Avatar 2, make the whole series about surviving the xeno takeover of pandora

While we can laugh at Avatar 2 for many reasons, appearently it is as close to release as it's ever been. According to the last few news reports Cameron's put out, all their mocap for the Navi and other digital aliens is done, he just has to capture a handful of live-action footage. That and the latest groundbreaking CGI renderings. So yeh, it's coming. Very slowly, but... James isn't lying around anymore, from the looks of it.

Yes please.

They kicked Atermis Fowl and The New Mutants down the road too.

I can't foresee the latter sequels doing well or even coming out. People will likely see 2 to see how the visuals have improved in the years since the original's release, but 3-5 might falter if they fail to offer anything compelling.

that sucks, I think the author has been trying to get that movie made for like a decade

Disney needs to slow the hell down. I can't blame them for thinking Avatar was the next big Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, when it came out. It was massive, it got some ridiculously hardcore fans early on. People were learning the fucking conlang, which basically only happens for Tolkien and Star Trek (and I guess Game of Thrones, now). And it made a shitload of money. I can't blame them for snapping up the rights and slamming sequels into the pipeline. But it turned into a flash in the pan. It's become kind of obscure, forgotten. People care more about the Nickelodeon cartoon "Avatar" than the Cameron CGI fest. They already built the park so they might as well use that, and hey, maybe a sequel could revitalize interest in the property, if they put as much effort into plotcrafting as worldbuilding. But don't make a fucking tetralogy based on one movie. That's a big financial gamble, and they put it on a pretty weak horse. More to the point, Disney doesn't need another massive film franchise. Their schedule is getting kind of crowded, between all their tentpole movie lines. Star Wars, Marvel, a stable of Pixar series, Pirates... they're good. Their cup fucking runneth over with blockbuster franchises. Even Fox didn't really need one badly enough to push Avatar this hard. Give it the same treatment most of Fox's successful standalone films - greenlight a sequel, see if it does well before greenlighting another. They didn't look at the big success of Taken or Planet of the Apes, and immediately commission a four-film epic. If they'd gotten the Avatar cinematic universe started quickly enough, maybe that could have justified immediately booking a further trilogy. But they sat around with their dick in their hand for a decade, and now nobody gives a shit. So it's a big gamble that Avatar 2 will make people interested in the property again. At this point it's useful to see it like the sequels to much older films - like Indiana Jones 4 or the Independence Day sequel. Something worth trying to see if that flame can be rekindled, but enough time has passed that maybe it can't.

It's like the Duke Nukem of movies.

This would get me in the theater opening night. C'mon Cameron, you pussy. Give the fans what they want.

I just want another Tron movie

When's the planet nuked from orbit?

The plot twist is that the unobtainium within the floating islands was actually placed there by predators to make hunting the xenomorphs and na'vi more interesting.

Disney seems like they've either never heard or never fully understood the phrase "less is more".

people's inner furry wanted to see animal-people have weird alien sex

"We're gonna slowly fly at low altitude into their tree thing using one of our only 2 shuttles and drop this pallet of mining explosives ontop of it" "why don't we just fly into orbit and drop something from there..." "Because the company said we gotta kill a bunch of you off before we can come home!"

It certainly had quite big technological footprint tho. 3D, realtime CGI preview, various new camera and mocap technology etc. It even single-handedly responsible for every middle-high end TV made between 2011 - 2017 to have 3D functionality. Not the most useful thing but it's hard to argue that it's an impressive achievement for a movie.

Avatar 2: Geriatric Adventures

Getting a Duke Nukem Forever vibe from this but the only difference is no one cares

Sound Color 3d None of these firsts are particularly memorable as artistic endeavors. Mocap and realtime cgi were already coming from sources that don't have to pay cameron and his brother royalties, which is why Avatar exists at all. It's a royalty enforcing tech demo, and history is treating it as such. People with PC stopped oogling the latest 3dmark quite a long time ago.

You joke, but Cameron went hard on the backstory for everything from the flora & fauna to the language of the Na'vi. It's not Tolkien-level depth but still.

All i can say about the first Avatar film. Is that it was good. But that's pretty much it. It's shot well, the art design on everything is on point, acting is good, lot of fun action scenes. But then you get the writing. Which is very generic and kinda bland. Which might've been more of an issue given the time period where this movie came out. Where the Iraq war was going on, and the film had a very anti-interventionist theme running through it. That isn't to say that is the reason why the writing was bland, but its due to the fact that they made the plot very one sided. What could've saved the film and made it more memorable. Is if both sides, the Natives and the Corporation's Military were both held in a grey area. Something like, the Natives are defending their homeland, but at the same time they're fighting against one another in smaller conflicts. They would be more of an alien version of humanity when we were living in hunter-gather societies. Instead of the " "Noble Savage" treamtnet. Meanwhile the Corporation wants to harvest resources, but they have to cause currently Earth is going through a resource crisis.Which it is in the movie, but they paint that as more of a "Humanity fucked up their planet, now they're gonna fuck this planet up". The focus should've been more of desperation in why they're harvesting the resources on the planet.

I wonder if the sequels will be all about pandora and the navi or be the same avatar technology used in different ways.

It's influenced a TON behind the scenes. Performance capture is the norm now. Avatar laid the groundwork for the kind of performance capture you see today (Thanos, Detective Pikachu, etc). Without Avatar proving the viability, things may have gone very differently.

Can we have an Avatar movie when the aliens get totally destroyed I'll pay to see that