10 Movies Coming Out YEARS After They Were Shot
5. Avatar: Fire & Ash
The rolling production on James Cameron's Avatar sequels is one of the most ambitious and mind-boggling undertakings in Hollywood history.
Cameron began shooting the second and third films, Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash, consecutively in September 2017. Performance capture on both films was completed by November 2018, and live-action shooting for Fire and Ash was finished in December 2020 - an entire two years before The Way of Water itself was even released.
Additional reshoots were conducted in the summer of this year, bringing Avatar 3's entire filming cycle to a mind-boggling seven years. But given that it isn't scheduled to release until December 2025, that's a full production time of well over eight years.
And considering that a few select scenes for Avatar 4 were shot at the same time as the second and third films, and it's slated for a December 2029 release no less, its own production will extend past a full decade. Wild.