From Entertainment Weekly.
Hoping this franchise won't become too kid-centric.
Eat my eyes for jujubes if old.
The first of four sequels to James Camerons game-changing blockbuster wont hit theaters until 2020. But EW has the exclusive intel on the troupe of young actors who will join stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana on Pandora (first photo below).
The forest-dwelling offspring of Avatars humanturnedNavi hero (Sam Worthington) and his fiery love interest, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), will play a crucial role in the long-long-long-awaited follow-ups to the 2009 blockbuster, the first of which began filming on Sept. 25 (and are called the Avatar Sequels, by the way).
The young actors playing Sullys family are revealed here for the first time, along with the children from another Navi clan, called the Metkayina, who dwell on giant oceanic atoll reefs under the rule of a leader named Tonowari (Cliff Curtis of Fear the Walking Dead).
Of course, in the above photo, youll have to use your imagination a bit to picture the cast in CG character as lanky blue cat-eyed Navi. That is, with one exception Javier Spider Socorro (played by 12-year-old Jack Champion, whos standing on the right in a blue shirt in the above photo). Spider is a human teenager born at the Hells Gate military complex, a crucial location in the first film.
According to producer Jon Landau, the kids of Avatar 2 represent the biggest focus shift from the original movie. We never had this youthful element before, and that brings a different kind of energy to the film, he says. They represent the future generation of Pandora and play a very significant role not just in this movie but throughout all the movies.
Hoping this franchise won't become too kid-centric.
Eat my eyes for jujubes if old.