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(With all its variations, The Way of Water is reportedly releasing in more formats than any film before it.) But while the tech is complex, the pitch is very simple. This is their chance to have that feeling again, and there’s no way they can have it at home. In the trailer, Avatar: The Way of Water looks for all the world like an immersive natural-history documentary about an alien world. Despite the fact that the movie as been in development for eons — and that Cameron assembled a writer’s room to draft the storylines for this and no less than three additional Avatar sequels — The Way of Water still has an extremely vague logline. [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/13/21257520/avatar-2-cast-water-tank-image-behind-the-scenes). Although it premiered on Good Morning America and online on Wednesday, this is a trailer that has been built to be seen in theaters — which pretty much the entire moviegoing public will soon be doing as they sit down to watch Black Panther: Wakanda Forever next week.

New footage from the sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time has been released on YouTube.

Cameron is also working on a fourth and fifth film, for projected release in 2026 and 2028 respectively. [remains the highest-grossing film of all time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_films). Cameron has spent years developing and shooting Avatar’s sequels, with photography for The Way of Water starting in 2017, simultaneously with a third film in the series which is due for release in 2024.

Director James Cameron has spent more than a decade making the first of a planned four sequels to his 2009 blockbuster film Avatar.

Jake decided to meld with his avatar permanently at the end of the first film so he could be with Neytiri and start a family on Pandora. Per the official synopsis: "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." We got our first peek at the first of those sequels, Avatar: The Way of Water, [in May](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/return-to-pandora-with-the-first-teaser-for-avatar-the-way-of-water/) with a brief, visually stunning teaser that showcased Cameron's undisputed skill at world-building. The first would feature Pandora's ocean and involve shooting footage at the bottom of the Mariana Trench with a deepwater submersible. [Avengers: Endgame](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/avengers-endgame-is-three-of-marvels-best-films-rolled-into-one/) briefly took the top spot in 2019. [James Cameron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron) has spent more than a decade making the first of a planned four sequels to his 2009 blockbuster film Avatar.

Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Bailey Bass, and Britain Dalton take the spotlight on the new poster for James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water.

Avatar: The Way of Water will debut exclusively in theaters on December 16. As specific details from the film continue to remain a mystery, with very little revealed from the film's marketing so far, there's still plenty of room for speculation from fans. Besides revealing some of the film's characters, the poster also features a closer look at a new creature in the franchise, also showcased in the film's trailer.

Today, 20th Century Studios released a new trailer and poster for Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron's highly anticipated first follow-up to his ...

Avatar: The Way of Water opens in theaters on Friday, December 16. The film is also produced by Jon Landau. The screenplay is by Cameron, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver from a story by Cameron, Jaffa, Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno.

A new trailer for James Cameron's sci-fi sequel from 20th Century Studios and Disney shows off its stunning effects, the performance of Sigourney Weaver as ...

Avatar: The Way of the Water also sees the return of Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, and Giovanni Ribisi, while Kate Winslet (yet another Titanic callback), Edie Falco, Cliff Curtis, and Jemaine Clement round out the new cast. Set more than 10 years after the events of 2009’s Avatar, James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of the Water finds a fully Navi-ified Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their since-born kids sticking it out on Pandora. Besides reintroducing viewers to Jake and Neytiri, the trailer has a particular focus on Kiri, their adoptive teenage daughter, brought to life by 72-year-old Sigourney Weaver through the power of performance capture — a startling casting choice that only Cameron would attempt, and that seems from this trailer to have come off, against the odds.

Arriving in theaters Dec. 16, “Avatar: The Way of Water” picks up with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) as parents raising their children ...

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Director James Cameron brings back his cast from the original, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Stephen Lang as Colonel Quaritch who met his gruesome ...

Her character Grace died in the first Avatar but Weaver returns to Pandora to play Jake and Neytiri’s teenage daughter Kiri. Joining them are new faces (at least to Pandora) Kate Winslet and Michelle Yeoh. The new trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water features more impressive water CGI and new creatures on Pandora.

The new trailer shows more of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), who are trying to lead a peaceful life on Pandora with their children. The ...

Avatar 3, 4 and 5 will be released with a gap of around two years between the films. The entire trailer is set in and around the seas and oceans of Pandora, depicting its rich marine life. The trailer comes just over a month before the release of the film, which is scheduled to hit the screens on 16 December 2022.

In celebration of the trailer launch for "Avatar: The Way of Water," a light show featuring highlights from the film was projected over Niagara Falls.

Franchise newcomers include Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, Edie Falco and Jemaine Clement. The trailer has no shortage of visually ...

Just like 2009’s ‘Avatar’, Cameron is writing, producing, and editing ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’, in addition to directing. Set over a decade after the original film, which took place in 2154, the newly released trailer shows glimpses of Jake and Neytiri cozying up as a family. Jon Landau and Peter M.