Avatar producer Jon Landau on Oona Chaplin’s role in Threequel, fourth film’s Time Jump and fifth film’s Move To Earth

avatar Producer Jon Landau has revealed new details about what to expect from the next three installments in the franchise – firstly about the nature of Oona Chaplin’s previously announced role Avatar 3.

The game of thrones‘s alum – aka Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter – has been cast to play Varang, the leader of the more evil, fire-themed Na’vi tribe known as the Ash People, who will be the focus of the third installment.

“There are good people and there are bad people. It’s the same on the Na’vi side,” Landau recently told Empire , echoing filmmaker James Cameron’s previous comments on the subject under investigation. Avatar 3. “People often don’t see themselves as bad. What is the root cause of how they evolve into what we consider evil? There may be other factors that we are not aware of.”

Landau said so Avatar 4 will show “a huge leap in time” before reiterating that the fifth film will make the leap from Pandora’s moon to somewhere on Earth. The earth of avatar is no different from ours, according to the producer – ruled by “overpopulation and a depletion of our natural resources that make life difficult”.

However, Landau makes it clear that the avatar Span does not want to paint a bleak picture of where our world is headed. The films are also about the idea that we can change course.”

Landau’s comments come amid the worldwide release of Cameron’s highly anticipated sequel Avatar: the way of water, which hit theaters 13 years after its original sci-fi epic. Cameron previously said The path of the water‘s release that a failure of the film at the box office would cast doubt on the future of the franchise, even though it had already wrapped production Avatar 3 and part of the fourth film.

But much to the relief of Cameron and 20th Century Studios, the sequel more than delivered, earning over $2.1 billion worldwide to date to become the fourth-highest grossing film of all time. Pic also recently received four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.