Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh joined the “Avatar” sequel early on, back in 2019, but she won’t appear in the sequel until 2029’s “Avatar 4.”
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, James Cameron himself denied that the veteran actress will appear in next year’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, refuting previous reports that she had a role in the trilogy.
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“Michelle Yeoh won’t be in third grade. She’s in fourth and fifth grade…so that’s a little bit of a false alarm. She’s going to be coming in very soon and coming into her own, and it’s a fun role. I mean , we’re getting ahead of ourselves now, this whole thing has been planned for years,” he told Entertainment Weekly. While we’ve yet to meet and learn more about Young’s character, we’ve known her name for a while now – Dr. Karina Mogg. Whether she’s a good or bad guy for the RDA remains to be seen (although she appeared in a 2021 IG photo alongside Giovanni Ribisi’s evil RDA boss), but this pretty much confirms she won’t be another new Na’vi character.
“The scripts were all written years ago, right up to the end of the fifth movie. So we’ve been working on parts of the fourth movie, mainly because we have a young cast. We have to put them together while they’re filming They were all filmed. We were still young,” Cameron added. It was reported after “Aqueduct” that most of the cast would next film “Avatar 4,” but it appears that much of the tetralogy is still waiting to be filmed. Instead, Cameron and his team have recently completed the third film before moving further into post-production. That being said, given the involvement of young actors and Cameron’s confirmation that there will be a major time jump after the fourth installment begins, it makes sense that some footage of Avatar 4 would be shot alongside principal photography on Aqueduct.
Michelle Yeoh is clearly stronger than ever after her Oscar-winning performance in All the Goods , but she was already a major figure in Hollywood in the years before this fantastic film came out. Next, she played two major sci-fi roles in the Discovery spinoff “Section 31” and Prime Video’s “Blade Runner 2099.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash is currently scheduled to be released in theaters on December 19, 2025. Released on the 21st, “Avatar 5” will also be released two years later, on December 19, 2031.
