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) said he had been "surprised at how much it did look like ". Principal photography for "Avatar" began in in Los Angeles and Wellington, New Zealand. Cameron described the film as a hybrid with a full live-action shoot in combination with computer-generated characters and live environments. "Ideally at the end of the day the audience has no idea which they're looking at," Cameron said. The director indicated that he had already worked four months on nonprincipal scenes for the film. The live action was shot with a modified version of the proprietary digital 3-D Fusion Camera System, developed by Cameron