Avatar 2 is an upcoming 2020 American epic science fiction film directed, produced, co-written, and co-edited by James Cameron, and the first of four planned sequels to his film Avatar (2009). Cameron is producing the film with Jon Landau, with Josh Friedman originally announced as sole writer; it was later announced that Cameron, Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno took a part in the writing process of all sequels before being attributed separate scripts, making the eventual writing credits unclear.[2][3][4][5][6] Cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, C. C. H. Pounder, and Matt Gerald are all expected to return.