Avatar 3 Is Now Officially Avatar: Fire and Ash

Are you acceptable to spell backmost to Pandora? The 3rd movie successful James Cameron’s epic sci-fi franchise has revealed its afloat rubric astatine last. It’s Avatar: Fire and Ash . It hits theaters astir precisely 3 years aft 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water, opening December 19, 2025.

Sorry to anyone who was holding retired anticipation that a definite antecedently dismissed rubric (The Seed Bearer) would extremity up making the cut. But Fire and Ash makes much consciousness for the 3rd Avatar film, fixed what we cognize astir it truthful far.

Just announced astatine #D23, our rubric for the adjacent Avatar film:

Avatar: Fire and Ash. Get acceptable to travel backmost to Pandora, successful theaters December 19, 2025. pic.twitter.com/gZkCCsTl9x

— Avatar (@officialavatar) August 10, 2024

In 2023, Cameron said that aft portion two’s aquatic adventures, a antithetic constituent would beryllium getting a focal constituent successful portion three: “Fire has a symbolic intent successful the movie and there’s a civilization that is specifically astir that conception … You’re going to conscionable 2 wholly caller [Na’vi] cultures successful the adjacent film. We met the Omaticaya, we met the Metkayina, and you’re going to conscionable 2 caller cultures successful the adjacent film, and it benignant of roves a small much freely astir the satellite of Pandora to antithetic places.”

Another item we learned backmost successful 2023 is that Game of Thrones alum Oona Chaplin volition beryllium playing a quality named “Varang,” the person of a Na’vi occurrence clan known arsenic the “Ash People,” who dwell successful Pandora’s volcanic region.

After Avatar 3, determination are at slightest 2 much installments coming successful 2029 and 2031, and possibly adjacent beyond.

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