Sigourney Weaver Will Play a Teenager in Avatar 2

Sigourney Weaver is tackling a brand new appearing problem: she will probably be taking part in a teen in “Avatar: The Approach of Water,” the actor informed Empire journal in a brand new interview. On July 1, the 72-year-old actor, whose character Dr. Grace Augustine died within the authentic 2009 “Avatar” movie, revealed that she will probably be taking part in a teenage Na’vi who’s the adopted daughter of Sam Worthington’s character, Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana’s Neytiri. “I feel all of us just about keep in mind what we have been feeling as adolescents,” Weaver informed the journal, revealing that her character will probably be named Kiri. “I actually do. I used to be 5′ 10″ or 5′ 11″ after I was 11. I felt strongly that Kiri would really feel awkward quite a lot of the time. She’s trying to find who she is. I used to be thrilled to be provided 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 has been a very long time because the 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 struggle with the Na’vi, the moon’s inhabitants, a species of 10-foot-tall humanoid aliens. The film went on to turn into the highest-grossing film of all time. Whereas James Cameron’s movie was imagined to get a sequel a few years in the past, 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 through the years.

Although the sequel’s plot remains to be fairly obscure to audiences, we’ll actually study extra within the coming months earlier than the film is formally launched. This is all the things we all know to date about this long-awaited sequel, together with among the new expertise becoming a member of the forged.