Sigourney Weaver Will Play a Teenager in Avatar 2

Sigourney Weaver is tackling a new performing problem: she shall be enjoying a teenager in “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the actor instructed Empire magazine in a new interview. On July 1, the 72-year-old actor, whose character Dr. Grace Augustine died in the unique 2009 “Avatar” movie, revealed that she shall be enjoying a teenage Na’vi who’s the adopted daughter of Sam Worthington’s character, Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana’s Neytiri. “I believe all of us just about keep in mind what we have been feeling as adolescents,” Weaver instructed the journal, revealing that her character shall be named Kiri. “I definitely do. I used to be 5′ 10″ or 5′ 11″ after I was 11. I felt strongly that Kiri would really feel awkward a lot of the time. She’s looking for who she is. I used to be thrilled to be on condition that problem.”

The revelation is the most recent element to shed a bit of sunshine on what followers can count on from the “Avatar” sequel. It’s been a very long time for the reason that authentic “Avatar” landed in theaters — over a decade, in truth, because it got here out in 2009. The film takes place in a future when people, who’ve utterly depleted Earth’s pure sources, journey to the fictional moon of Pandora to mine for sources, kicking off a conflict with the Na’vi, the moon’s inhabitants, a species of 10-foot-tall humanoid aliens. The film went on to develop into the highest-grossing film of all time. While James Cameron’s movie was supposed to get a sequel many years ago, manufacturing was delayed on the big-budget function. The time has lastly come, although, for “Avatar 2” to be seen by the world, and new particulars have continued to emerge over time.

Though the sequel’s plot remains to be fairly obscure to audiences, we’ll definitely study extra in the approaching months earlier than the film is formally launched. Here’s the whole lot we all know thus far about this long-awaited sequel, together with some of the new talent joining the cast.