Avatar 2 doesn’t have a post-credits scene or a longer streaming cut

If you’re seeing this, chances are good that you’re either sitting in a theater or headed for one. You just want to know whether you can finally run to the bathroom, grab a snack, or register your opinion on social media immediately after spending more than 180 minutes in James Cameron’s world of Pandora, watching big blue alien cat-people go ham on greedy-ass humans. Here’s your answer: No, The Way of Water: Avatar does not include a scene in the post credits. This last sentence about family was teased in Part 1. Avatar 2 trailer, is all you’re going to get. Fly! Fly! You don’t have to sit and watch the names of motion-capture experts, marine biologists, CGI designers who contributed to the film roll by for the next seven minute.

It might not be rude to look at. This movie has been in production since 2011, and some of the people involved have worked on it for years. Surely you don’t want to miss their big moment?

The Way of Water: AvatarIt also misses a few other things. Yes, there are space whales, stories about coming of age, creepy resurrections, and many visual references from past James Cameron movies. But just for a moment, let’s focus on a few things it’s missing.

Avatar 2 doesn’t have a post-credits scene

Cameron’s sequel ends, instead, much like Catching Fire in the Hunger Games, with a key character mentally coming up for air after trauma and loss, finding their emotional footing again, and informing the audience, via voice-over, that it’s time to take the fight to the enemy — and then looking directly into the camera to signal just how determined they are. This is a good formula for what’s effectively more a chapter ending than a movie ending — it signals that there’s more to come, and it leaves a character making meaningful eye contact with the audience, letting them feel like even if they weren’t included in the fight they just watched, they’re still invited to the fight to come.

That’s assuming you’re OK with loose ends, but those are pretty much guaranteed from the middle installment of a trilogy. “Wait,” you say, “a trilogy? You are wrong, haha! There are going to be Five Avatar movies. James Cameron said so.”

Well, yes and no…

Avatar 2 isn’t guaranteed to have three more sequels

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Cameron has been saying for years now that he has a road map for five Avatar movies in total, and he’s laid out release dates for those movies through 2028. Movie No. Movie No. The Avatar for the Seed BearerThe movie, ‘, is due to be released December 20,24. It was shot backwards with Water’s Way. Cameron claims that the movie’s first act is No. 4 – possibly named Avatar of The Tulkun RiderThe film also features. (The space whales, the tulkun play a major role in this film. Water’s Way.)

But that doesn’t mean we’re guaranteed five Avatar movies. Total Film November, Cameron suggested that Cameron could not finish the fifth and sixth movies. Water’s Way and its sequel don’t make the immense piles of money they need to be profitable. “[W]e might be semi-done, meaning: ‘Okay, let’s complete the story within movie three, and not go on endlessly,’ if it’s just not profitable,” Cameron said.

That doesn’t seem likely, though. In 2022, the theatrical release AvatarIn total, the movie brought in $75 millions. Even though blockbusters were notoriously hard times, there was no shortage of hits and flops. But audiences still poured into theaters in droves to see Pandora. So it feels improbable that they’ll utterly reject Water’s WayThis is true, even though it may not be enough. Avatar’s record financial success. Early box-office track suggests that the sequel may open for more than $500,000,000 in its first weekend.

“Look, I believe people are gonna love the movie, right?” Avatar When asked by Polygon if he thinks the series can reach its natural conclusion, Jon Landau, producer of the film, said that he does not believe so. “I don’t think we can predict world events. I don’t think anybody could have predicted the pandemic. I don’t think anybody knows what’s going to be happening tomorrow.”

Regardless, producers think that Avatar 3 will bring the story to a satisfying close, if it comes to that: “I think that none of these movies create a cliffhanger on your emotional conclusion,” he said.

Avatar 2 doesn’t have a longer Disney Plus streaming cut

Cameron also said another interesting thing in the build-up. Water’s Way’s release: He’d like to make movies with different cuts for their streaming releases, possibly stretching up to six hours on streaming. “I want to do a movie that’s six hours long AndThe movie was approximately two-and-a-half hours in length. Same movie,” he told Dune director Denis Villeneuve in one of Variety’s “Directors on Directors” interviews.

“You can stream it for six hours, or you can go and have a more condensed, roller coaster, immersive version of that experience in a movie theater,” Cameron said. “Same movie. Just, one’s the novel, and one’s the movie. Why not? Let’s just use these platforms in ways that haven’t been done before.”

If there’s any franchise that seems like it’d justify that treatment, it’s the Avatar movies, given the decade-plus planning and preproduction phase they went through. There’s so much joyous Pandora tourism in Water’s WayAnd so many more characters, each with its own small stories. that it’s easy to imagine a more TV-oriented version of the film with extra episodic footage, drawing out some of these stories at length.

Landau confirmed that Cameron was only blue-skying over technology and the future for now. There are no plans to stream any longer. The Way of Water: Avatar.

“I think Jim is seizing on opportunities for other stories with two different cuts — the idea would be that you build a larger, epic narrative that can last six hours, and you pull a two-and-a-half-hour movie out of it.” But definitely not with either Avatar 2 Or the one that is already taken Avatar 3, he says: “We don’t have the amount of content to do that.”

The Way of Water: AvatarThis film is currently in cinemas.