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

Plot

What's the story about?

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.

Action Fantasy 3D Shot-In-3D Sequel

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Avatar: The Way of Water.

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  Sam Worthington

  ... Jake Sully

  Hacksaw Ridge, Avatar: Fire and Ash

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  Zoe Saldana

  ... Neytiri

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar

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  Sigourney Weaver

  ... Grace Augustine

  The Gorge, Avatar: Fire and Ash

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  Stephen Lang

  ... Colonel Quaritch

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar

• C
  Cliff Curtis

  ... Tonowari

  Meg 2: The Trench, Avatar: Fire and Ash

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  Oona Chaplin

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar 5

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  Matt Gerald

  ... Corporal Lyle Wainfleet

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar

• C
  CCH Pounder

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Naked Gun

• J
  Joel David Moore

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar 5

• B
  Britain Dalton

  ... Lo’ak Sully

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar 5

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  Filip Geljo

  ... Aonung Metkayina

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar 5

• J
  Jamie Flatters

  ... Neteyam Sully

  Avatar: Fire and Ash, Avatar 5

Crew Behind the Film

The Avatar: The Way of Water behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director James Cameron last directed The Abyss and Avatar. The film's writer James Cameron last wrote Alita: Battle Angel and Sanctum.

Director

James Cameron

Screenwriters

James Cameron
Josh Friedman
Rick Jaffa

Producers

James Cameron
Jon Landau

Additional Information

All Trailers

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Production Details

What we know about the Avatar: The Way of Water movie production.

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).

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