When you see this, chances are you’re either sitting in a theater or heading towards one. You just want to know if you can finally run to the bathroom, grab a snack, or share your thoughts on social media after spending more than 180 minutes in James Cameron’s world of Pandora watching big blue alien- Cat people get greedy – ass people. Here is your answer: No, Avatar: The Way of Water has no post-credits scene. That last line about the family being teased right off the bat avatar 2 Trailer is all you will get. To fly! Be free! Unless you want to spend the next seven minutes looking at the names of every motion capture expert, marine biologist, and CGI designer who worked on the film.
But it might be polite to watch. After all, some of these people have been working on this film since it was first announced in 2011. Surely you don’t want to miss your big moment?
Avatar: The Way of Water a few things are still missing. Sure, it’s got space whales, coming-of-age stories, a spooky resurrection, and loads of visual references to past James Cameron films. But let’s focus on a few things he’s missing for a moment.
Avatar 2 does not have a post-credits scene
Cameron’s sequel instead ends similar to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, with a key character mentally gasping after trauma and loss, regaining her emotional footing, and notifying the audience via voice-over that it’s time to take the fight to the enemy — and then looking directly into the camera to signal how determined they are. This is a good formula for what is effectively a chapter ending rather than a movie ending – it signals that there is more to come, and it leaves a character making meaningful eye contact with the audience, making them feel like they are not included in the fight you just watched, you are still invited to the upcoming fight.
That assumes you’re okay with loose ends, but those are pretty much guaranteed from the middle part of a trilogy onwards. “Wait,” you say, “a trilogy? Ha ha, no, you are misinformed, there will be five Avatar Movies. James Cameron said so.”
Well yes and no…
Avatar 2 is not guaranteed to have three more sequels
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Cameron has said for years that he has a roadmap for a total of five Avatar films, and he has set release dates for those films through 2028. Currently film #3 supposedly titled Avatar: The Seed Beareris scheduled for release in December 2024 and was filmed consecutively The way of the water. Cameron says the first act of film #4, possibly titled Avatar: The Tulkun Rider, was also shot. (The Tulkun are the space whales that have such a prominent role in The way of the water.)
But that doesn’t mean we’re guaranteed five Avatar movies. In conversation with Total Film in November, Cameron signaled that the fourth and fifth films may never be completed, though The way of the water
But that doesn’t seem likely. The cinema release 2022 from avatar alone grossed $75 million. Also in a notoriously difficult time for blockbusters, with more $100 million flops as record-breaking hits, viewers flocked to theaters to relive the world of Pandora. Therefore, it seems unlikely that they will reject it entirely The way of the watereven if it’s tight avatar‘s financial record success. but early checkout tracking suggests the sequel could start with more than $500 million in its first weekend.
“Look, I think people are going to love the movie, right?” avatar Producer Jon Landau recently told Polygon when asked if he thinks the series could find a natural conclusion with the third film. “I don’t think we can predict world events. I don’t think anyone could have predicted the pandemic. I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.”
That is, thinks the producer avatar 3 will bring the story to a satisfying ending when it comes to it: “I don’t think any of these films creates an emotional exit with a cliffhanger,” he said.
Avatar 2 does not have a longer Disney Plus streaming cut
Cameron said something else interesting beforehand The way of the water‘s Release: He would love to make films with different cuts for their streaming releases, potentially stretching up to six hours in streaming. “I want to make a film that’s six hours long and two and a half hours at a time. The same movie,” he said dune Director Denis Villeneuve in one of Variety’s Directors on Directors interviews.
“You can stream it for six hours, or you can have a more condensed, more immersive version of that experience in a theater,” Cameron said. “The same movie. Only, one is the novel and one is the film. Why not? Let’s just use these platforms in a way that’s never been done before.”
If there’s one franchise that seems to warrant this treatment, it’s the Avatar films, given the more than ten years of planning and pre-production that they went through. There is so much happy Pandora tourism out there The way of the waterand so many new characters with their own little bows, that it’s easy to imagine a more TV-oriented version of the film with additional episodic footage detailing some of these stories.
But Landau confirms that Cameron is only talking about technology and the future, at least for now, and there are no plans for a prolonged streaming cut Avatar: The Way of Water.
“I think Jim takes opportunities to do other stories with two different cuts – the idea would be that you build a bigger, epic narrative that can be six hours and pull it out into a two-and-a-half hour movie.” But definitely not both avatar 2 or those already shot avatar 3he says, “We don’t have the amount of content to do that.”
Avatar: The Way of Water is now in cinemas.
