James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” is about to overtake “Spider-Man: No Way Home” at the worldwide box-office and is still going strong even in its fifth weekend of release.
As the $2 billion mark draws near, Cameron has once again briefly teased the already-shot third installment, which is set to arrive on screens at the end of 2024.
A few weeks back he indicated the first hints about the third one, saying we’d meet the ‘Ash People’ – a new Na’vi culture that may be the most brutal and nastiest of the clans living in Pandora’s biosphere and are tied with ‘Fire’ which would indicate a volcanic setting of some kind.
Last night while attending the Critics Choice Awards, Cameron confirmed to Deadline that the element of fire plays a big part in the next one, and adds that two new Na’vi cultures would be introduced:
“Fire has a symbolic purpose in the film, and there’s a culture that is specifically around that concept. That’s probably saying too much as we speak.
You’re going to meet two completely new cultures in the next film. We met the Omaticaya (jungle tribe), we met the Metkayina (ocean tribe), and you’re going to meet two new cultures in the next film, and it kind of rove a little more freely around the world of Pandora to different places.”
He adds that the next film is “a rocket sled” in terms of where it goes. Actor Jack Champion, who plays Spider in the film, was also in attendance and promised his character would face “even more inner turmoil and conflict”.
The third “Avatar” film is set to arrive in cinemas on December 20th 2024.
