The Hollywood Writers Guild strikewhich began on May 1, has caused companies such as The Walt Disney Studios have to change the planned release dates for some of their most anticipated releases.
“Avatar 3”, “Thunderbolts”, “Blade”, “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” either “Avengers: Secret Wars” These are just some of the titles that will see their arrival in theaters altered, as announced by The Walt Disney Studios on Tuesday, due to the fact that the productions have been paused or the scripts are not ready yet.
In the case of the third installment of “Avatar”, it will be officially delayed by one year and It will be released on December 19, 2025.which causes the fourth and fifth sequels in the saga will not come out until December 21, 2029 and December 19, 2031, respectively.
In fact, the producer of the franchise, Jon Landau, tweeted this Tuesday about the notorious changes: “Each ‘Avatar’ film is an exciting and epic undertaking that takes time to reach the level of quality that we filmmakers seek and that audiences expect.”
Likewise, the beginning of the filming of “Thunderbolts” and Blade remain in a waiting rhythm until the picket ends, while “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” a year late and they will be commercially distributed on May 1, 2026, in the first case, and on May 7, in the second.
On the other hand, the still untitled film of “Deadpool” will finally be released on May 3, 2024 and “Captain America: Brave New World” will be postponed to July 26 of that same year.
That’s not all because “Fantastic Four” will go from February 14, 2025 to May 2 of that year and Rami Malek’s film, “The Amateur” (20th Century Studios), will be out on November 8, 2024.
As for the universe movies Star Wars that are still being developed, it is already known that one of them will move its release date from December 19, 2025 to May 22, 2026 and that the other, still without an official name, will see the light on December 18, 2026.
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