Avatar 2 & 3 Were Filmed Back-to-Back to Avoid ‘the Stranger Things Effect’

In a latest interview with EW, Avatar: The Means of Water director James Cameron mentioned why he filmed a number of Avatar sequels back-to-back.

Cameron defined that this was accomplished to maintain the kid actors from wanting drastically older in every movie whereas their characters keep the identical age — which he dubbed “the Stranger Issues impact. The director referenced Jack Champion, who performs Spider within the Avatar sequels, as one actor who was ageing particularly quick, stating Champion was “rising like a weed.”

“We shot with Jack when he was 14 and 15, virtually as much as 16. So we had been taking pictures him over an 18-month interval,” Cameron defined. “In any other case, you get — and I like Stranger Issues — however you get the Stranger Issues impact the place they’re presupposed to nonetheless be in highschool [but] they appear like they’re 27. , I like the present. It’s okay, we’ll droop disbelief. We just like the characters, however, you understand.”

Avatar: The Means of Water is directed and co-written by James Cameron. It options the return of Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Joel David Moore, Dileep Rao, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald, and Sigourney Weaver. Further solid members embody Kate Winslet, Edie Falco, Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel, Jemaine Clement, and Oona Chaplin, alongside a slate of younger actors.

“Set greater than a decade after the occasions of the primary movie, Avatar: The Means of Water begins to inform the story of the Sully household (Jake, Neytiri, and their children), the difficulty that follows them, the lengths they go to maintain one another secure, the battles they battle to remain alive, and the tragedies they endure,” says the official synopsis.

Three further movies are deliberate, with Avatar 3 tentatively scheduled for December 20, 2024, Avatar 4 set for December 18, 2026, and Avatar 5 on December 22, 2028.