Avatar star Sigourney Weaver is spellbound by the scale of future films in the franchise

James Cameron's Avatar has been one of the most groundbreaking projects to have come out of Hollywood, and it's surprising how well it holds up even years after its initial release. It has always had such a massive scale and scope that it deserved to be brought back through follow-up projects to expand on the world built on Pandora.

The first film was released in 2009, and over a year later, it received a follow-up project. Unlike then, there won't be as much waiting this time, as the third film, dubbed Avatar: Fire and Ash, is set to be out in theaters in 2025. It will show Zoe Saldaña and Sam Worthington reprising their roles, alongside Sigourney Weaver, playing the Na'vi daughter of her earlier character.

Since the fourth and fifth Avatar films are also in the plans, Weaver looks at their imaginative world in awe. She spoke about them in her recent conversation with Collider. When asked whether she had read the scripts, she said,

"Yes! And they're so good because so much gets paid off in the most surprising ways."

During the interview, the actress also addressed what has always appealed to her about this sci-fi franchise, its emotional stories, and their thematic relevance to the world we live in.

Sigourney Weaver speaks about the scale of future projects in the Avatar franchise

James Cameron's film series began with a 2009 project that addressed the future of the Earth, when the depleting resources led humans to gravitate towards places in order to settle there. It explored themes of greed and exploitation through characters either driven away from their humanity or drawn towards it. So, even with its rather simplistic plotline, it reflected problems from the present-day world.

Sigourney Weaver addressed how the franchise has always been about these emotional stories at the core. That's what kept her going when she started reading the scripts of the future projects. Addressing the same, she told Collider,

"The reason, to me, that I work with him [James Cameron] is the stories. The stories and the themes, and how relevant they are to this universe. Yes, even though they look blue and the people have tails and ears, it's really about the heartbreaking stories about family and everything that keeps me going when I read it. I have to keep turning the pages, they're so good."

While speaking about the franchise's inherently ambitious nature, she said,

"I feel that way every day, though, working on this series. I can't believe we're making a movie that's this ambitious and, frankly, such an honor. People don't realize how fundamental the work is. They think that we're voicing these characters or that it's a cartoon."

She further added,

"When I get on the set of an Avatar film, I'm in a black suit, yeah, but it's like a very early theater rehearsal where you just give it all you've got. It's such fundamental acting work with huge themes and so much at stake, and it's very hard to find that anywhere else."

The actress will soon return as Kiri in Avatar: Fire and Ash, which is set to release on December 19, 2025.

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