There are few movie franchises the place a easy title reveal is sufficient to excite audiences. Avengers, Star Wars and James Bond amongst them. After which there’s Avatar, which stands as a category as its personal.

Whereas the franchise doesn’t have many movies to its identify, the primary Avatar (2009) stands as the very best grossing movie of all time, and sequel Avatar: The Manner of Water (2022) holds the file for the third highest grossing film ever.

So when James Cameron introduced that his third Avatar shall be titled Avatar: Hearth and Ash, it was sufficient to spark huge applause at D23 Friday.

“There are new cultures and settings and creatures, and new biomes. You will note much more of Pandora, the planet, that you just’ve by no means seen earlier than,” mentioned Cameron of the film. “The brand new movie isn’t what you anticipate, nevertheless it’s positively what you need.”

Cameron returns to direct the brand new Avatar, which has a script from Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It as soon as once more stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, and it’s slated for Dec. 19, 2025. Disney and twentieth Century Studios have two extra Avatar movies on the docket. Avatar 4 is dated for Dec. 21, 2029, whereas Avatar 5 is slated for Dec. 19, 2031.

Cameron is ending up Avatar after the lack of longtime artistic associate and producer Jon Landau, who died in July. Wrote Cameron of his good friend: “A fantastic producer and a fantastic human being has left us. Jon Landau believed within the dream of cinema. He believed that movie is the final word human artwork type, and to make movies you need to first be human your self. He shall be remembered as a lot for his huge generosity of spirit as for the flicks themselves.”