James Cameron confirmed at this time 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 mentioned the mission’s put up manufacturing schedule was “hectic,” however the movie is due out “Christmas of ’25.”
Cameron mentioned in an interview with Individuals that Winslet will as soon as once more play Ronal. Whereas Winslet’s involvement in Avatar: The Method of Water was comparatively minimal, it appears like she may have extra to do within the third movie.
The director mentioned 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 among the stuff that she’s going to do in film three, that’s primarily based on precise observe,” he mentioned.
It is sensible that we’d see extra of Ronal, given Cameron informed GQ at this time that “the massive [creative] advance on this film is simply going to be better 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 folks and go on this epic journey with them. So I believe it’s not about, ‘We’re going to indicate you one of the best water [VFX] ever carried out’ — however you get extra into the center and soul of the characters. And there’s some very attention-grabbing new characters that are available as nicely. This can be a journey over time. It should play out via film three, into film 4 and film 5. There’s an epic cycle to the entire thing.”
