There are now four planned sequels to James Cameron's 。 Avatar。in the works, with the first of those slated to arrive on Dec. 18, 2020. 。
A new post on the official 。 Avatar 。Facebook page confirms the release-date news, noting that production is underway. It also offers up a schedule for each of the subsequent planned releases, the last of which will be out in 2025. 。
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's progress toward a sequel over the years, it's easy to see this latest news as yet another empty promise. There have been so many, after all. 。SEE ALSO:Jeff Bezos suits up in giant robot armor as Amazon prepares to take over the world。
The 2009 blockbuster -- which starred Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang -- was a huge success, picking up close to $3 billion in ticket sales worldwide. Predictably, it didn't take long for sequel talk to spring up.。 First -- going all the way back to 2010 -- there were going to be two sequels, arriving in 2014 and 2015. Then three. 。First -- going all the way back to 2010 -- there were going to be two sequels, arriving in 2014 and 2015. Then three.。
Avatar 2 。 eventually slipped to a vague 2015 release. The more time that passed, the less specific Fox's sequel plans seemed to get. 。The studio publicly hit reset on 。 Avatar 。's future in 2014 when it announced three follow-ups, to arrive in 2016, 2017, and 2018. One year later, more delays; now,
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That's just the broad timeline. And now we have this latest announcement, from a Facebook post on April 22. The question any 。 Avatar 。fan is right to ask at this point: why should we believe any of this?
It's a fair thing to wonder. Delays aren't exactly uncommon in Hollywood, but 。 Avatar 。has been shuffled around to a comical extent since 2009. Especially for a movie with $2.8 billion in ticket sales. 。
If you're looking for any shred of evidence to hang your hopes on, there's at least some good news. Fox has been slowly, quietly ramping up efforts to resurrect interest in 。 Avatar 。Avatar 。
over the past couple years. 。
While Cameron himself has never stopped talking about the movies -- probably because no one will stop asking -- Fox mobilized a multi-platform social media launch in 2015. The apparent hope was to remind people of 。 Avatar 。Avatar 。
's existence and introduce them to its alien world of Pandora. 。 A similar project is underway at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom. A new, Pandora-inspired section of the theme park was revealed in late 2016 and is expected to open this summer. 。Also new for 2017: a comic book from Dark Horse and the announcement of an upcoming video game -- no release date -- from the same Ubisoft team that made 。 The Division 。The Division 。
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It's still hard to trust this new production timeline, given all the false starts. But Fox -- likely emboldened by Disney's successes with Marvel and 。
Star Wars 。
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