"Avatar 2" Wraps Filming, "Avatar 3" is 95% Complete

James Cameron has finished filming the sci-fi blockbuster movie “Avatar 2” while completed about 95% of “Avatar 3”.

The “Avatar” sequels had to halt production in March due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The movie's producer Jon Landau announced on May 21 that he and the “Avatar” cast and crew would return to New Zealand to resume production, which resumed filming in New Zealand on June 15, after the country ended its coronavirus outbreak.

Cameron made the big reveal in a video chat with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who starred in Cameron’s “The Terminator,” as part of the 2020 Austrian World Summit.

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The famed director noted that the pandemic had hit the production like everybody else, revealing that they lost about four and a half months of production, which released into pushing the movie's release date to December 2022.

"Now that doesn’t mean I have an extra year to finish the film because the day we deliver “Avatar 2” we will just start working on finishing “Avatar 3”, so, where we are right now, I am down in New Zealand shooting, we are shooting the remainder of the live-action. We have got about 10% left to go,” he told Schwarzenegger.

Cameron continued: "We are 100% complete on “Avatar 2”, and we are sort of 95% complete with “Avatar 3”,".

“We are very lucky in that we chose this as our production site years ago. We made the first film here in New Zealand and it turns out to be ranking first or second-best country in the world for its COVID response,” he noted.

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Disney announced in July that it had pushed the Avatar sequels back a year with “Avatar 2” slated for Dec. 16, 2022; “Avatar 3” set for Dec. 20, 2024; “Avatar 4” to debut on Dec. 18, 2026; and “Avatar 5” on Dec. 22, 2028.

The second “Avatar” installment, which was originally set to be released in 2014, will debut 13 years after the original “Avatar.”

The first part of Avatar was produced in 2009. It was directed, written, produced, and co-edited by Cameron, and was often referred to as “James Cameron’s Avatar” as it was first developed in 1994 when Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment for the movie.