The long wait for more Avatar films will go on a little longer.
The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday 7 May announced its release schedule for the next few years. To no one’s surprise, more Marvel and Star Wars films are on the way, but the company also laid out its plans for upcoming 20th Century Fox films. James Cameron's long-delayed Avatar 2 will now open in theaters in December 2021 instead of its most recent date of December 2020. The two subsequent Avatar sequels will move to 2023 and 2025, respectively with Avatar 5 slated for 2027. That’s right 2027!
Disney said its next batch of Star Wars films will begin arriving in theaters in 2022, and then in 2024 and 2026. The current Star Wars trilogy ends with The Rise of Skywalker in December 2019.
A number of Fox films were delayed. Ad Astra, with Brad Pitt, has been pushed to September. The New Mutants, which is the last non-MCU Marvel project Disney inherited from Fox, was pushed from this summer to April next year.
Steve Spielberg's West Side Story will open in December next year.
On the MCU front, there are two Marvel projects lined up for 2020, and three each for 2021 and 2021. Disney has not, however, announced any titles yet. Fans will have to keep guessing what we will see next after Endgame and Far From Home.
The slate also includes an untitled Indiana Jones project for 2021.
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