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Filmmaker James Cameron made a video appearance at D23 Brazil to talk about the third of his Avatar films, Avatar: Fire and Ash, which is scheduled to debut in theaters on December 19, 2025.
Cameron, who serves as director, writer, and producer of the Avatar franchise, described Fire and Ash as an “insane adventure that also has high emotional stakes, more than ever before. We are going into challenging territories. There are new characters, and one you’ll love to hate. New cultures and settings and biomes and more of Pandora.”
Declaring that “we have a lot of anger and rage in the world we live in right now,” Cameron vowed he’ll be directing the fourth and fifth films in the series unless he’s “hit by a bus.”
Released toward the end of 2022, Avatar: The Way of Water ultimately became the sixth film in history to earn $2 billion at the global box office.
Zachary Berger, Dylan Cole and Steven Messing are among the artists are who contributing illustrations to the upcoming production. One of Cole’s illustrations shows a large crowd of Na’vi and Tulkun people gathering in the sea, resembling an image from The Way of Water,. Another, by Berger, portrays the new Ne’vi tribe of Ash People and their villages that appear to rest on powdery ashes.
Earlier this year, Cameron told Nick Romano in Entertainment Weekly that “It took a long time to come up with a title that I felt resonated with what’s in the film. I don’t think I could say too much about it until you actually see the film and you see what it means, but if you think of fire as hatred, anger, violence, that sort of thing, and ash is the aftermath — so what’s the aftermath? Grief, loss, right? And then what does that cause in the future? More violence, more anger, more hatred. It’s a vicious cycle. So that’s the thinking.”
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