Avatar 5 Plot Includes Some Earth Scenes, Says Producer

If James Cameron is fortunate sufficient to make a fifth Avatar movie, not all of it would happen on Pandora. At a latest press day for Avatar: The Way of Water, io9 requested Cameron’s producer Jon Landau if the Earthlings who had been defeated and left Pandora on the finish of the unique movie will return to carry conflict to the Na’vi. He wouldn’t say however he did say that Avatar 5 will go to Earth.

“Well, it’s funny,” Landau stated over video chat. “I wasn’t going to talk about it, but I’ve now subsequently heard that Jim has talked about it a little bit. In movie five there is a section of the story where we go to Earth. And we go to it to open people’s eyes, open Neytiri’s eyes, to what exists on Earth.” (And whereas that looks as if an enormous spoiler to disclose Neytiri remains to be alive going into the fifth and closing Avatar, Landau is smarter than that. He wouldn’t casually drop that data until it was extremely apparent or unimportant to the general story.)

Landau continued to clarify why Neytiri will ultimately should be clued into what’s taking place on Earth. It’s as a result of she doesn’t perceive that Earth isn’t simply stuffed with evil individuals who wish to pillage Pandora. “Earth is not just represented by the RDA [the evil organization in the film; the abbreviation stands for Resources Development Administration],” he stated. “Just like you’re defined by the choices you make in life, not all humans are bad. Not all Na’vi are good. And that’s the case here on Earth. And we want to expose Neytiri to that.”

But will audiences even get to see 2028’s Avatar 5? It’s the one movie of the collection that has not been no less than partially filmed but (2024’s half three has been accomplished, as has the primary act of 2026’s half 4, in response to Landau); to take a position a whole lot of tens of millions extra to finish the saga would solely occur if audiences preserve turning out for all the opposite motion pictures, the primary of which opens subsequent week. If by probability it doesn’t occur although, Landau says he, Cameron, and the workforce have ready for that. All the movies hyperlink, however are additionally very particularly designed to be standalone tales.

“I think right now we want each movie to do exactly what the first movie did,” Landau stated. “We want [audiences] to go, ‘Wow. Where else could they go? They just showed us everything on Pandora.’ Then you go, ‘Holy cow. They’re going to the oceans. Wow. The oceans are amazing.’ Okay, that’s over. Where can it go? Same thing from an emotional story. We end the [first] movie with Jake and this transformation. But we’ve suffered the loss of [Sigourney Weaver’s character] Grace, and we’ve suffered other things. We want people to come out of this movie with an emotional resolution that both calls for a yearning to go back to those characters and to the world.”

And whereas just a few years in the past a number of titles for the Avatar sequels reportedly leaked, which included the correct title “The Way of Water,” Landau says to not anticipate Avatar 5, or any of the remainder, to line up. “We have decided on titles, but I would not go by those other three titles that were out there,” he stated. “You know, if you roll the dice one in six times, you’ll pick the right number.”

For Jon Landau, James Cameron, and everybody concerned with Avatar: The Way of Water, they hope it hits the appropriate numbers too. It opens December 16.

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