D23 reveals Avatar 3, Toy Story 5, Star Wars The Mandalorian and Freakier Friday particulars

Details of latest movies together with the title of the third instalment of Avatar, an addition to the Star Wars franchise and a sequel to Freaky Friday have been introduced at a large Disney fan occasion.

Filmmaker James Cameron instructed a 12,000-strong viewers that Avatar: Fire And Ash will “not be what you expect” whereas US actor Jon Favreau teased a brand new Star Wars movie titled The Mandalorian And Grogu, starring Pedro Pascal.

Actors Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, stars of the 2003 comedy Freaky Friday, additionally appeared on stage to advertise Freakier Friday, which is about for 2025.

The bulletins have been made at D23, the biennial conference for members of the official Disney fan membership, in California on Friday.

Avatar director Cameron made a shock look alongside the movie’s stars Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington.

The science fiction epic, set for launch on 19 December 2025, comes after 2009’s Avatar and its sequel Avatar: The Way Of Water, which was launched in 2022.

“The new film is not what you expect, but definitely what you want,” Cameron instructed the viewers.

He stated it was “too soon” to share footage however let the viewers take a look at “cool concept art” which featured the characters within the sky and surrounded by fireplace.

“There are new cultures and settings and creatures, and new biomes,” he stated.

“You will see a lot more of Pandora, the planet, that you’ve never seen before.”

Lohan and Curtis have been greeted with a standing ovation on the eighth D23 occasion, which is being held from 9 to 11 August on the Anaheim Convention Centre in California.

Curtis described Freakier Friday – a few mom and daughter who swap our bodies because of a magical Chinese fortune cookie – as “more fun and more emotional” than their 2003 movie.

“We’ve stayed in touch throughout the years and we’re very close to each other so it feels like we are picking up from where we left off, which is really beautiful,” Lohan stated.

Oscar-winner Curtis instructed the viewers: “We love these characters, we love each other, we love you and you love us and the movie and the story and what it means to you – that’s why we’re here.”

The pair confirmed One Tree Hill’s Chad Michael Murray and NCIS actor Mark Harmon are reprising their roles within the sequel.

The viewers was proven a trio of images from the brand new movie together with a picture of Curtis sporting a silver bobbed hairdo whereas driving Lohan in an open prime automotive.

In the brand new movie, Lohan’s character Anna Coleman has a daughter of her personal.

Freaky Friday, based mostly on a 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers, was additionally made right into a film in 1976, starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.

As for the brand new Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian, government producer Dave Filoni stated manufacturing began “a few weeks ago” and it’s due for launch in May 2026.

“We are putting Star Wars back on the big screen,” Mr Filoni stated.

The announcement got here after Pixar’s chief artistic officer Pete Docter introduced The Incredibles 3 was additionally within the works.

He confirmed Brad Bird, the author and director behind the primary two movies, has returned for the subsequent journey from the beloved undercover super-family.

Frozen director Jennifer Lee additionally appeared to verify there will likely be two extra movies added to the Frozen franchise.

“Coming out of Frozen 2, we still have some questions… Now you see why it will take two films to answer them,” she teased.

Lee shared a primary take a look at idea artwork for Frozen 3, which is slated for 2027.

Later on the occasion, Toy Story star Tom Hanks joined a bunch of the unique movie’s creators together with Pete Docter, now chief artistic officer on the animation studio behind it, Pixar, on a panel.

Since the movie’s preliminary launch in November 1995, Toy Story has develop into a celebrated franchise with three sequels and a fourth due in 2026.

Hanks voices pull-string cowboy toy character Woody.

And in the course of the panel, the viewers was proven a printed listing titled “ideas for Woody’s pull-string dialogue lines” dated 3 February 1993.

There have been three handwritten phrases on the backside, together with Hanks’s well-known line “there’s a snake in my boot”.