It takes place on another frontier, another area of the moon of Pandora. That’s why it’s called Frontiers of Pandora. It’s an all new open world, new characters.

The whole idea is to have it be part of the storyline of that giant franchise on Pandora, but it’s not a “play the movie” game. This is a brand new story with new characters. What James Cameron and Jon Landau created is an amazing science fiction world. They want to interact with their favorite characters and worlds, but they want to play new stories and do new things with those characters and worlds. That was popular at the time, but gamers expect more now. Things like the classic Aladdin game on Sega Genesis. You bought the game and played the movie. Sean can get into our general strategy, but on licensing games like this these days - there was a time 15 or 20 years ago where playing the movie was something. Priore: Yeah, the next one is holiday 2022. GamesBeat: How does that relate to the movie releases, the next Avatar movies? Are they slated for particular dates yet? Shoptaw: Yeah, after the trailer, people are finding out that it’s very cinematic. GamesBeat: The animation almost feels like it is the movie. They announced Massive was working on it a while ago, but this is the name announcement and the first glimpse of what that game is going to be.

The great thing moving forward is we’ve been lucky enough to be able to work with Ubisoft and the team at Massive with Lightstorm, James Cameron’s production company, and Jon Landau, who worked on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. That started well before the acquisition. Priore: That predates us, obviously, because Disney didn’t acquire the 20th Century Fox properties until a couple of years ago. GamesBeat: How long has Avatar been in the making now? Shoptaw: The Avatar title and the Sea of Thieves integration were the two big ones so far. GamesBeat: What was announced altogether this week? We’re very excited about the status of games at Disney. We’re super excited about the products we’ve announced, and a lot of the products we have in the market already as well. It’s been a great week at E3 with some of the announcements you’ve seen. Sean Shoptaw: I guess that’s a pretty loaded question.

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