Avatar will have four stand-alone sequels set on Pandora

Ariba Bhuvad

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Back in 2009, Avatar took us to the exotic planet of Pandora and blew our minds with spectacular visual effects that felt way ahead of their time. It’s been a decade since the original film came out, and we’re finally getting some concrete information about its forthcoming sequels, four in all. Only as it ends up, they won’t exactly be sequels. We’ll let producer Jon Landau, speaking at a recent screening of Alita: Battle Angel, explain:

"Each movie is a standalone movie that we would wanna go see. You don’t need to have seen the first Avatar to see Avatar 2. It sits there and we’re gonna take people on a visual and an emotional journey that comes to its own conclusion. Okay, step back. Is that a movie we would wanna make just as a standalone story? Yes. Now we do the same thing on Movie 3, Movie 4, and Movie 5. What we have the luxury of on Avatar is the world of Pandora. We get to keep it there but everything can be new, we’re not treading new ground."

All thanks to Collider for the quote.

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So Fox isn’t going to tell one big story with its Avatar sequels, but rather set up Pandora as a world where lots of different stories can take place. Although we don’t have firm plot details on any of these films, the second is rumored take place in the deep blue oceans of Pandora. The rumored title is Avatar: The Way of Water. (You know you just took a second to think about how spectacular that’s going to look; I know I did). Rumored titles for the other movies include Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.

We know that filming has wrapped on the second film, which will land at a theatre near you in December 2020. That’ll be 11 years after the original movie. Will it be worth the wait?

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Ariba Bhuvad

Ariba has been working for FanSided Entertainment for the last six years and started off as a contributor for a variety of their sites, including Show Snob, NetflixLife, Westworld Beyond, and Winter Is Coming. Over the last three years, she has transitioned into the role of Site Expert for FanSided's reality TV-based website, Accept This Rose. Her work can be found on FanSided Entertainment's websites, including previous work across other entertainment websites, including her own. Ariba loves reality television and has watched every episode of Love Is Blind (including, most recently, the UK version) and is also a huge fan of Bridgerton (amongst all other period dramas out there). When she isn't writing, Ariba loves to travel with her husband, hang out with her two kittens (Hermione and Winky), and listen to Taylor Swift all day long.