Avatar Sequels And New Star Wars Movies Get Postponed By Disney
Disney has updated the schedule of cinematic premieres after taking over Fox's Studios. Avatar franchise gets postponed by a year and new Star Wars trilogy will arrive in 2022.
Disney's acquisition of Fox's assets (in March, 2019) means that Mickey Mouse not only acquired rights to brands such as Aliens, Simpsons and X-Men, but also to a handful of films that have been in production for some time, including The New Mutants, Artemis Fowl and Avatar's sequels. This has forced Disney to make significant reshuffles in the schedule for movie premieres over the next few years.
Avatar fans have no reason to be happy - although the main shots for the second and third installments of James Cameron's hit ended at the end of last year, Disney has no intention of rushing to release these films in movie theaters and has delayed their release. We will watch Avatar 2 not at the end of 2020, but in 2021, while the third part will debut 2 years later instead of December 2021. The next two editions of the series will also be released in movie theaters in two-year intervals.
Halfway through waiting for the next Avatars, Disney will treat us with the next Star Wars trilogy - the schedule includes three new films from this series, which, like James Cameron's titles, will be released every two years. It seems that producers have actually learned something after disappointing financial results of Han Solo and are slowing down at the rate of exploitation of this popular brand. After this year's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which according to earlier plans will debut on 20 December 2019, further films with action set long and long ago in a galaxy far far away will be released in December 2022, 2024 and 2026.
We have to say goodbye to the X-Men universe based on Marvel's comics, which Fox has been developing over the years. Planned for August 2019, The New Mutants will make their debut a year later and it looks like they will be the last project of this world. Gambit movies and two projects based on Marvel's license have been officially removed from the schedule.
A complete list of changes to the schedule of Disney and old Fox movies is presented below:
Title | Previous release date | New release date |
The Art of Racing In the Rain | 27 IX 2019 | 9 AUGUST 2019 |
Ready or Not | - | 23 AUGUST 2019 |
Ad Astra | 24 V 2019 | 20 IX 2019 |
Ford vs. Ferrari (updated title of the film previously known as "James Mangold's project") | 15 XI 2019 | - |
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (updated title of the film previously referred to as "Star Wars: Episode IX") | 20 XII 2019 | - |
Spies in Disguise | 13 IX 2019 | 25 XII 2019 |
Underwater | - | 10 I 2020 |
Call of the Wild | 25 XII 2019 | 21 II 2020 |
The New Mutants | 2 VIII 2019 | 3 IV 2020 |
Artemis Fowl | 9 AUGUST 2019 | 29 V 2020 |
The One and Only Ivan (updated title of a film previously referred to as "Disney's Unknown Action Film") | 14 II 2020 | 14 VIII 2020 |
Death on the Nile | 2 X 2020 | 9 X 2020 |
West Side Story | - | 18 XII 2020 |
Cruella (updated title of a film previously referred to as "Disney's Unknown Action Film") | 23 DECEMBER 2020 | - |
Nimon | 14 II 2020 | 5 III 2021 |
Avatar 2 | 18 XII 2020 | 17 XII 2021 |
Untitled film from the Star Wars series | 16 XII 2022 | - |
Avatar 3 | 17 XII 2021 | 22 XII 2023 |
Untitled film from the Star Wars series | - | 20 XII 2024 |
Avatar 4 | 20 XII 2024 | 19 XII 2025 |
Untitled film from the Star Wars series | - | 18 XII 2026 |
Avatar 5 | 19 XII 2025 | 17 XII 2027 |
Gambit | 13 III 2020 | Deleted from the schedule |
Marvel's untitled film by Fox... | 26 VI 2020 | Deleted from the schedule |
Marvel's untitled film by Fox... | 2 X 2020 | Deleted from the schedule |
