Sigourney Weaver is confirmed to return for Avatar: The Way of the Water, the sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar. The famed Aliens actress will play a new character, Kiri Sully.
In the first Avatar FILM, Weaver played Dr. Grace Augustine, the head of the Avatar Program and Jake’s mentor. She advocated peaceful relations with the Na’vi, the inhabitants of Pandora. However, Augustine died of a gunshot wound inflicted by Colonel Miles Quaritch during his attack on Hometree. Although she died before her consciousness could be transferred into her avatar form, she became part of Eywa.
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The sequel is set a decade after the events of the first film, focusing on the Sully family and the struggles they endure to survive. At the end of the first film, Jake became a permanent member of the Na’vi as his consciousness was transferred into his avatar form, leaving his human one behind. Although Quaritch was killed, he is revived as a Na’vi and reorganizes the RDA (Resources Development Administration)
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James Cameron is the director and co-writer for the sequel, with Sam Worthington (Jake Sully), Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), Stephen Lang (Mike Quaritch), Giovanni Ribisi (Parker Selfridge), and Matt Gerald (Lyle Wainfleet) reprising their roles from the first film. Among the new cast members are Kate Winslet, Edie Falco, Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel, Jemaine Clement, and Oona Chaplin.
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Although Augustine died in the first film, Weaver returns for the sequel. Unlike Lang and his role of Quaritch, Weaver is confirmed to be the new character Kiri, the adoptive daughter of Jake Sully and Neytiri. As the sequel heavily features underwater scenes, Weaver and most of the cast took free-diving lessons to prepare for their roles.
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Although underwater filming and motion capture is not new to film productions, combining the two is a feat that has never been done before. Cameron and the crew spent a year and a half developing a new system for accomplishing the new technique. For the cast and crew working on this film and its sequels, the production is a self-imposed challenge to go where no others have gone before.
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The Way of the Water is set for release on December 16, 2022. Initially scheduled for release in December 2014, the extensive production and visual effects process, along with story rewrites and the COVID-19 pandemic, resulted in numerous delays. Three more Avatar sequels are on the way, with the third one tentatively scheduled for December 20, 2024, and the fourth and fifth films are scheduled for December 18, 2026, and December 22, 2028, respectively.
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Source: Empire via Coming Soon
