Before the Oscars Everything, everywhere, at onceAt the time, we were in the middle of the Michelle Yoboom, which fortunately doesn’t look like it’s going to end anytime soon. Wicked It will be released in theaters this fall. Star Trek: Section 31 It will be available on Paramount+ early next year and on Prime Video. Blade Runner 2099 Yeoh’s other notable project, a James Cameron blockbuster, is currently in production. Avatar Franchising is further away than we thought.
That’s because Yoh’s character won’t actually appear in the third film, the title of which was recently revealed to be Avatar: Fire and AshesShe’ll instead make her debut in the fourth film, due for release in 2029 – a full decade after it was announced in 2019 that she’d been cast as a scientist named Dr. Karina Moog.
This information was confirmed by James Cameron himself, who told Entertainment Weekly at the D23 convention that Yeoh would not appear in Part 3 (“that was a bit of a misreport”), but would be appearing in Parts 4 and 5.
“She’s coming in very soon and she’s going to have an interesting, fun role,” Cameron said. “I mean, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. This has been planned for years. The script was all written years ago, all the way through to the end of the fifth movie. So we’ve been working on parts of it as we’ve been making the fourth movie. And that’s mainly because we have a young cast. We had to film it while they were still young.”
According to an EW article, a widely circulated photo of Yeoh on set with Cameron was Avatar The reason for shooting the second, third and first half of the fourth film consecutively was the rapid aging of the young stars. Fire and AshesCameron knows it’ll be worth the wait to see her. AvatarThe World: “We love Michelle … She’s always been a movie star, but she’s exploded into a huge phenomenon.”
Avatar: Fire and Ashes It will open on December 19, 2025.
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