Avatar 2 Would be Out by December 2017

According to reports Avatar 2 has bowed out of its Christmas 2017 release window.

Speculative reports may have pegged the long-gestating sequel for a release in 2015, 2014 and even all the way back in 2013, though this is the second time that Fox has officially postponed Cameron’s return trip to Pandora and its many moons. By filming all three of the planned sequels back-to-back, the director has stressed the importance of releasing his trilogy a year apart, building toward what he describes as a meta-narrative.

Following up to the 2009 original, there’s no question that Avatar 2 has been biding its time as Cameron looks to flesh out his sprawling vision, but after another delay, we can’t help but wonder whether the sci-fi franchise will fade into relative obscurity before Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana et al. roar onto the screen once more.

In light of today’s postponement, fans of James Cameron’s Avatar franchise will have to bid their time before indulging in the director’s ambitious sci-fi universe once more. Whether it will be a straight switch to Christmas 2018 remains to be seen, but only when Avatar 2 touches down in theaters will we find out whether or not that blue-tinged box office king was really one big fluke.