Avatar 2 (marketed as James Cameron's Avatar 2) is an upcoming American epicscience fiction film directed, produced, and co-written by James Cameron, produced by 20th Century Fox and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the second film in the Avatar franchise, following Avatar(2009). Cameron is producing the film with Jon Landau, with Josh Friedmanoriginally announced as his co-writer; it was later announced that Cameron, Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno took a part in the writing process of all sequels before being attributed separate scripts, making the eventual writing credits unclear.[2][3][4][5][6] Cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Dileep Rao, CCH Pounder, and Matt Gerald are all reprising their roles from the original film, with Sigourney Weaverreturning in a different role.[7] New cast members include Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, and Vin Diesel.
Cameron, who had stated in 2006 that he would like to make sequels to Avatarif it was successful, announced the first two in 2010 following the widespread success of the first film, with Avatar 2aiming for a 2014 release.[8][9][10]However, the subsequent addition of two more sequels, and the necessity to develop new technology in order to film performance capture scenes underwater, a feat never accomplished before in motion capture history, led to significant delays to allow the crew more time to work on the writing, pre-production, and visual effects; it is currently planned for a release on December 18, 2020, exactly eleven years after the American release of the first film, with the following sequels to be released between 2021 and 2025.[11][12][13][14][15]
Preliminary shooting for the film started in Manhattan Beach, California on August 15, 2017, followed by principal photography simultaneously with Avatar 3 in New Zealand on September 25, 2017. The performance capture part of the film wrapped filming in November 2018; the live action part will start filming in the Northern Hemisphere Spring of 2019.[16][17][18][19][20][6][21][22][23]


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