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Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Last modified: Sep. 19, 2025

Avatar: The Way of Water 3D

Release Date: Friday, December 16, 2022 Theaters Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Disney+

Director: James Cameron

Starring: Sam Worthington Zoe Saldana Sigourney Weaver Stephen Lang Cliff Curtis

PG-13 Action 3 hrs, 10 m

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Plot – What's the story about?

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Plot
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
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Who stars in Avatar: The Way of Water 3D – Cast List

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Who is making Avatar: The Way of Water 3D – Crew List

A look at Avatar: The Way of Water 3D behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director James Cameron last helmed Avatar: Fire and Ash and The Abyss. The film's writer James Cameron last penned Avatar: Fire and Ash and Alita: Battle Angel.

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Production – What we know about the Avatar: The Way of Water 3D

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Key Facts

  • As Lightstorm Entertainment’s Jon Landau explains, "One of the strengths of great scripts are always the universal and relatable themes… There’s no more relatable theme than family. At the center of each of our four movies will be the Sully family. Each sequel will play as a stand-alone movie. Each movie’s story will come to its own conclusion… However, when looked at as a whole, the journey across all four movies will create an even larger connected epic saga for audiences around the world (CineEurope, 6/20/17).”
  • Avatar future installments will take place underwater (Deadline.com, 5/8/17).
  • Fear the Walking Dead‘s Cliff Curtis will play Tonowari, who is the leader of the Metkayina, the reef people clan (Deadline.com, 5/8/17).
  • Originally pegged for Christmas 2018, the film has been delayed further (Hollywood Reporter, 3/10/17). As James Cameron explained, "Well, 2018 is not happening. We haven’t announced a firm release date. What people have to understand is that this is a cadence of releases. So, we’re not making Avatar 2, we’re making Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5. It’s an epic undertaking. It’s not unlike building the Three Gorges dam."
  • The Wrap (1/22/15) says Avatar 2 has been delayed "indefinitely." Meaning the original December 2017 release date is off the table.
  • Chatting with Entertainment Weekly, James Cameron has given a new update on the state of Avatar 2, Avatar 3 and Avatar 4: "I'm in the process of doing another pass through all three scripts right now. Just refining. That's in parallel with the design process. The design processors very mature at this point. We've been designing for about a year and a half. All the characters, settings and creatures are all pretty much [set] (EW, 12/2015)."
  • Lightstorm Entertainment will work once again with Joe Letteri and his team at WETA Digital on the three films.
  • 20th Century Fox will make three Avatar sequels. The three pictures will be filmed simultaneously with production beginning in 2013. The release of the first sequel will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later (Deadline.com, 8/1/13).

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

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Production

Changed the movie production status to Production. Shooting commenced April 2017 on four concurrent Avatar sequels.

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5 will all be filmed together.

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. James Cameron has plans to make three sequels back to back - lots of pre-production work needed.

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Changed the movie production status to Development. War Of The Worlds scribe Josh Friedman has been hired to work on the screenplay.

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Additional Information

Parent Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for sequences of strong violence and intense action, partial nudity and some strong language
Runtime
3 hrs, 10 m
Tagline
Not available
Also known as
Untitled Fox / Lightstorm Film 2018, Avatar 2

Language
English
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Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Release Date: When was the film released?

Avatar: The Way of Water 3D was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, December 16 , 2022. There were 19 19 other movies released on the same date, including Spoiler Alert, As Good as Dead and The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari.

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