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Michelle Yeoh’s journey to Pandora is going on later than anticipated.
“Avatar” filmmaker James Cameron has revealed that Yeoh’s character, scientist Dr. Karina Mogue, is not going to seem within the upcoming third installment, formally titled “Avatar: Hearth and Ash.”
“Michelle Yeoh will not be in 3. She’s in 4 and 5,” Cameron instructed Leisure Weekly at Disney’s D23 conference. “In order that bought a bit bit misreported.”
In 2021, the late producer Jon Landau posted a photograph of Yeoh on the set of the third “Avatar” movie, suggesting that Yeoh would seem in that entry. (Cameron shot “Hearth and Ash” and components of “Avatar 4” concurrently with 2022’s “Avatar: The Means of Water.”)
“She shall be coming in quickly to do her half, which is an fascinating, enjoyable character,” Cameron defined to EW. “I imply, we’re getting forward of ourselves now. This complete factor has been deliberate for years and years. The scripts have been all written years in the past, by way of the top of film 5. So we have been engaged on components of 4 at the same time as we go alongside, principally as a result of we have got this younger solid. We needed to shoot all of them whereas they have been nonetheless younger.”
“We love Michelle,” the director added. “She was all the time a film star, however she’s blown up into an enormous, enormous phenomenon. I sit up for working there.”
On the D23 expo on Aug. 9, Cameron and “Avatar” stars Zoe Saldaña and Sam Worthington revealed the official title for the third “Avatar” installment, in addition to showcased some idea artwork from the movie.
“You will see much more Pandora that you simply by no means noticed earlier than,” Cameron instructed the viewers. “It is an insane journey and a feast for the eyes, however it’s additionally bought very excessive emotional stakes, greater than ever earlier than.”
The third entry is at present set to open in theaters on Dec. 19, 2025, adopted by “Avatar 4” on Dec. 21, 2029, and “Avatar 5” on Dec. 19, 2031.
