Araya Doheny / Getty Images for DisneyDetails of novel films including the title of the third instalment of Avatar, an insertition to the Star Wars franchise and a sequel to Freaky Friday have been proclaimd at a enormous Disney fan event.
Filmproducer James Cameron telderly a 12,000-strong audience that Avatar: Fire And Ash will “not be what you foresee” while US actor Jon Favreau higheviated a novel Star Wars film titled The Mandalorian And Grogu, starring Pedro Pascal.
Actors Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, stars of the 2003 comedy Freaky Friday, also euniteed on stage to advertise Freakier Friday, which is set for 2025.
The proclaimments were made at D23, the biennial convention for members of the official Disney fan club, in California on Friday.
Jesse Grant / Getty Images for DisneyAvatar straightforwardor Cameron made a surpelevate euniteance aextfinishedside the film’s stars Zoe Saldana and Sam Worskinnygton.
The science fantasy epic, set for free on 19 December 2025, comes after 2009’s Avatar and its sequel Avatar: The Way Of Water, which was freed in 2022.
“The novel film is not what you foresee, but definitely what you want,” Cameron telderly the audience.
He shelp it was “too soon” to split footage but let the audience see at “chilly concept art” which featured the characters in the sky and surrounded by fire.
“There are novel cultures and settings and creatures, and novel biomes,” he shelp.
“You will see a lot more of Pandora, the scheduleet, that you’ve never seen before.”
Jesse Grant / Getty Images for DisneyLohan and Curtis were greeted with a standing ovation at the eighth D23 event, which is being held from 9 to 11 August at the Anaheim Convention Centre in California.
Curtis depictd Freakier Friday – about a mother and daughter who switch bodies thanks to a magical Chinese fortune cookie – as “more fun and more emotional” than their 2003 film.
“We’ve stayed in touch thrawout the years and we’re very shut to each other so it experiences enjoy we are picking up from where we left off, which is reassociate enticeive,” Lohan shelp.
Oscar-triumphner Curtis telderly the audience: “We adore these characters, we adore each other, we adore you and you adore us and the movie and the story and what it unkinds to you – that’s why we’re here.”
The pair verifyed One Tree Hill’s Chad Michael Murray and NCIS actor Mark Harmon are reprising their roles in the sequel.
The audience was shown a trio of pictures from the novel film including an image of Curtis sporting a silver bobbed hairdo while driving Lohan in an uncover top car.
In the novel film, Lohan’s character Anna Coleman has a daughter of her own.
Freaky Friday, based on a 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers, was also made into a movie in 1976, starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.
Jesse Grant / Getty Images for DisneyAs for the novel Star Wars film, The Mandalorian, executive producer Dave Filoni shelp production begined “a restricted weeks ago” and it is due for free in May 2026.
“We are putting Star Wars back on the huge screen,” Mr Filoni shelp.
The proclaimment came after Pixar’s chief conceiveive officer Pete Docter proclaimd The Incredibles 3 was also in the labors.
He verifyed Brad Bird, the producer and straightforwardor behind the first two films, has returned for the next adventure from the beadored undercover super-family.
Frozen straightforwardor Jennifer Lee also euniteed to verify there will be two more films inserted to the Frozen franchise.
“Coming out of Frozen 2, we still have some asks… Now you see why it will get two films to answer them,” she higheviated.
Lee splitd a first see at concept art for Frozen 3, which is sprocrastinateedd for 2027.
Later at the event, Toy Story star Tom Hanks uniteed a group of the distinct film’s creators including Pete Docter, now chief conceiveive officer at the animation studio behind it, Pixar, on a panel.
Since the film’s initial free in November 1995, Toy Story has become a honord franchise with three sequels and a fourth due in 2026.
Hanks voices pull-string cowboy toy character Woody.
And during the panel, the audience was shown a printed catalog titled “ideas for Woody’s pull-string dialogue lines” dated 3 February 1993.
There were three handwritten phrases at the bottom, including Hanks’s honord line “there’s a snake in my boot”.
