Coronavirus: ‘Avatar’ Sequels Suspend Filming In New Zealand
Filming on James Cameron’s long-in-the-works Avatar sequels has been suspended in New Zealand resulting from coronavirus.
Producer Jon Landau instructed the New Zealand Herald, “We’ve delayed it. We had plans to come back down Friday night time with a gaggle of individuals and begin again up and we made the choice to carry off and proceed working right here [Los Angeles], and are available down there somewhat bit later than we’d deliberate.”
“If I instructed you we’re going to know one thing in two weeks I’d be mendacity. I won’t be fallacious – even a damaged clock is true twice a day. However I might be mendacity as a result of I don’t know…We’re within the midst of a worldwide disaster and this isn’t concerning the movie business. I believe everyone must do now no matter we are able to do, as we are saying right here, to flatten the [coronavirus] curve.”
Weta will proceed to work on the visible results.
Cameron and Landau’s manufacturing firm Lightstorm Leisure have been engaged on 4 mega-budget Avatar sequels, with each Avatar 2 and three initially resulting from end filming this spring.
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Earlier this 12 months, launch dates have been introduced for every movie: Avatar 2 on December 17, 2021; Avatar 3 on December 2023, Avatar four on December 2025, and Avatar 5 on December 2027.
2009’s Avatar is the second highest-grossing movie of all time at $2.79B. We’ve reached out to Disney for remark.
As of Tuesday, New Zealand had recorded 12 confirmed coronavirus circumstances. The nation has moved swiftly, requiring all new arrivals to the nation to quarantine for 14 days.
Movie and TV manufacturing has shut down the world over in response to the outbreak. Main motion pictures are on hiatus within the U.S., UK, Europe and Asia. Main motion pictures are additionally being pushed again from their spring launch dates. AMC in the present day introduced that it could shutter its U.S. theaters for between six-12 weeks.
