Avatar 3 as Dr. Max Patel. Principal photography on the "Avatar 2" and "3" began simultaneously on September 25, 2017 in Manhattan Beach, California. On November 14, 2018, Cameron announced filming with the main cast had been completed. Filming on the next two sequels will begin after wrapping the post-production on first two sequels. "Avatar 3" is scheduled to be released on December 17, 2021 by 20th Century Fox, one year after the release of "Avatar 2" in December 2020. Avatar 3 Avatar 3 is an upcoming American epic science fiction film directed, produced, co-written, and co-edited by James Cameron, scheduled to
Avatar (2009 film) 80-page treatment for "Avatar", drawing inspiration from "every single science fiction book" he had read in his childhood as well as from adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. In , Cameron announced that after completing "Titanic", he would film "Avatar", which would make use of synthetic, or computer-generated, actors. The project would cost $100 million and involve at least six actors in leading roles "who appear to be real but do not exist in the physical world". Visual effects house Digital Domain, with whom Cameron has a partnership, joined the project, which was supposed to begin