For the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, see Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3).

Avatar 3 is an upcoming American epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron

Avatar 3 is an upcoming American epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.[2] Distributed by 20th Century Studios, it is the third film in Cameron’s Avatar franchise, and a sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). Cameron is producing the film with Jon Landau. Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno were involved in the writing process. Cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, Matt Gerald, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Jemaine Clement, Britain Dalton, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass and Filip Geljo reprise their roles from previous films, with Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, and Oona Chaplin portraying new characters. Cameron stated that Avatar: The Seed Bearer is being considered as a possible title for the film,[3][4] but Landau debunked the rumor in December 2023.

Filming

Principal photography on Avatar: The Way of Water and 3 began simultaneously on September 25, 2017, in Manhattan Beach, California.[80] On November 14, 2018, Cameron announced filming with the principal performance capture cast had been completed.[81] Most filming on the next two sequels will begin after wrapping the post-production on first two sequels.[82][83] According to producer Jon Landau, live-action filming for Avatar 3 and its predecessor commenced in New Zealand in early 2019.[84] On March 17, 2020, Landau announced that the filming of the Avatar sequel films in New Zealand had been postponed indefinitely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He also confirmed that production would remain in Los Angeles.[85] However, work on visual effects continued at Weta Digital in Wellington