"Avatar: The Way of Water" Is Only the Second of 5 Planned Avatar Movies

The first movie in the franchise premiered in 2009. It grossed $2.9 billion at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing film ever, per Axios. Its plot centers around paraplegic Marine veteran Jake Sully, who joins a mission to extract resources from the lush extrasolar moon Pandora, only to switch over to the side of its inhabitants, the Na'vi.