Even before she won an Oscar everything happens at the same timewe are in the midst of Michelle Yeoh’s boom. Luckily for us, this isn’t going to end anytime soon. Although the first evil Will be released this fall, Star Wars: Episode 31 will be available on Paramount+ early next year, while Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 Michelle Yeoh’s other high-profile project is now in production – she’s in James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar Franchise – further away than we thought.
That’s because Michelle Yeoh’s character won’t actually appear in the third film, whose title was recently confirmed as Avatar: Fire and Ashes. Instead, she will make her debut in the fourth film, which will be released in 2029 – a full decade after she was announced in 2019 as a scientist named Dr. Karina Mogg.
The news was confirmed by James Cameron himself, who told Entertainment Weekly at the D23 convention that Michelle Yeoh won’t star in the third installment – “that’s a bit of a misinformation” – although she will indeed appear in the fourth. and Part Five.
“She’s coming in very quickly and playing her part, and it’s a fun character,” Cameron said. “I mean, we’re a little bit ahead of ourselves right now. This whole thing has been planned for years. The script It was all written years ago, right up to the end of the fifth film, so we were working on part of the tetralogy, mainly because we had a young cast and we had to shoot them all while they were still young. kill.
The Entertainment Weekly article noted that a widely circulated photo of Michelle Yeoh and Cameron on set was taken during filming. Avatar Parts 2 and 3 are being filmed back-to-back, as well as the first part of Part 4, precisely because of the rapidly aging young stars. But although fans won’t see Michelle Yeoh live fire and ashesCameron knew that it was worth the wait to see her. AvatarThe World: “We love Michelle… She’s always been a movie star, but she’s become a huge phenomenon.”
Avatar: Fire and Ashes Opening December 19, 2025.
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