Avatar producer confirms Oona Chaplin will be the leader of those scary “Ash” Na’vi we’ve been hearing about
Jon Landau also confirmed that Avatar 4 will feature a major time jump before Avatar 5 sends the Na'vi to Earth
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Now that Avatar: The Way Of Water has cemented the franchise’s status as a certified cinematic steamroller, with two separate movies currently sitting at the top of the all-time box office charts, the movie’s producers have started talking in a slightly more concrete way about their plans for the third, fourth, and fifth films in James Cameron’s space-faring odyssey. (There’s nothing like getting all the money to boost your confidence, it turns out.) Specially, producer Jon Landau—whose collaborations with Cameron, dating back to 1997 and Titanic, have now made him one of the single most successful movie producers in human history—has revealed a few more details about each film, including confirming that Oona Chaplin will star in the third movie as one of its primary antagonists, Varang, the leader of the “aggressive” Ash People.
As opposed to the first two Avatar movies, where the worst you could say about most Na’vi was that they could get kind of judge-y, re: trees and whales and flying lizards and stuff, Varang and her people will be more openly, well… bad. “There are good humans and there are bad humans,” Landau said in a recent interview with Empire. “It’s the same thing on the Na’vi side. Oftentimes, people don’t see themselves as bad. What is the root cause of how they evolve into what we perceive as bad? Maybe there are other factors there that we aren’t aware of.” (We are guessing that “other factors” will also somehow be humans’ fault.)
Chaplin is probably still best known for Game Of Thrones, where she played Talisa Maegry (and, uh, briefly Talisa Stark). She’s set to appear in both Avatar 3 and Avatar 4, the latter of which, per Landau, will apparently have a big time jump. Meanwhile, we know from comments the producer gave to our colleagues at Gizmodo that the fifth film will take the Na’vi to Earth, keeping alive our dream of Avatars Take Manhattan.
Avatar 3 is currently scheduled for a Christmas 2024 release.
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More like ‘Ass’ People, amirite?
I’m sure Cameron will be great at navigating the political minefield of “Actually, there were bad Native Americans too.”
Try watching the movie and learning about Native American history before you regurgitate something you read on the internet idiot. The Avatar movies are not “white savior” movies despite what you copied from some idiot on the internet. Idiot.
He’s putting the N’avi in Na’vigate!
Don’t be silly: “N’avigate is the political scandal that turned the “Ash N’avi” evil.
This is a movie about aliens. Aliens in space.
“Specially”? Was this written by one of the Family Circus kids?
Not me!
Ida Know!
I also would have accepted “Fuck you”.
I feel like the Family Circus kids had a better grasp on spelling and grammar than your average current AV Club writer.
Her grandfather was the biggest movie star in the world a full century ago, so . . . ultimate nepo baby?
“-’Ash’ na’vi we’ve been hearing about”
It would be such a badass move if James Cameron just stopped talking about the next Avatar film and let people see a trailer. I really just need to see a quick shot of Ash people to understand the concept I dont need to keep hearing him talk about it in interviews so far out from the release of the film.
I’m sure James Cameron, master filmmaker, really appreciates advice from a fucking idiot like you who likes the shittiest Nicolas Cage movie.
Doesn’t seem to be his style, does it?
I don’t know how they’ll connect it to lava, but I do like the idea that a group of Navi are basically folks who thrive on land that’s recently been burned by lava – or that they set fire to sections of forest on Pandora and then cultivate animals and plants in the burned areas (like indigenous folk in America did IRL).
I could also see that putting them at odds with other Navi groups, such that they’re considered evil even if the fires are healthy for the Pandoran ecosystem.
Hey, sorry to plant this spoiler comment here, but did Charlie Cox really have to die? What was the point of that gut punch?
To clear the way for his much more charismatic cousin Chubby Cox!
I mean, one of them was gonna. Was it really such a surprise?
Ashy N’a’v’i. meet Ashy Larry…