Is Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora canon with James Cameron’s movies?

❘ Published: 2023-12-21T17:00:08

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The Na’vi in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

The highly anticipated Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game was released recently and you may want to know if the game’s story is canon with the movies. So, here’s everything you need to know about whether or not the Ubisoft title connects directly to James Cameron’s cinematic universe.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora gives fans of James Cameron’s massively successful Avatar film franchise to explore the world of Pandora for themselves. There’s a lot to explore in the game and plenty of skills to learn along the way.

The game, which has been developed by Tom Clancy’s The Division studio Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft, is set in the Western Frontier, a new part of Pandora that fans of the first two films have not yet seen.

Given the Avatar universe’s massive scope and immense lore, fans may be wondering if Frontiers of Pandora is canon to the franchise. Fortunately, we now have an answer to that very question.

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Is Frontiers of Pandora canon to the Avatar movies?

In short, yes, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is canon to the film series. The game’s creative director Magnus Jansén confirmed to IGN ahead of the game’s release that “The Western Frontier is no less a part of the world of Avatar than what’s in the movies,” meaning things like new plants and Na’vi clans are considered canon.

Previously, Ubisoft stated that Frontiers of Pandora offered a “stand-alone adventure” that’s set in the Avatar universe.

Content created for Frontiers of Pandora has already been included in an Avatar exhibition, and Jansén says “There is already some talk about maybe using some of the stuff that we did in the upcoming movies.”

There are even some intriguing tidbits for fans hoping for a preview of the upcoming third Avatar film, currently planned to release on December 19, 2025.

“I can say that there are going to be some future sequel elements in Frontiers of Pandora that will pay off when Avatar 3 comes out in 2025,” teased Joshua Izzo of Avatar studio Lightstorm Entertainment. Izzo also suggested fans will want to “revisit certain things” in the game following the film’s release.

However, don’t expect the game to be dealing with the characters of the first Avatar directly. The game is set in between the two Avatar films, but the events happen on another continent to the movies. That said, there will be some events that will be influenced by the happenings of the films, such as the evacuation and return of the RDA.

That’s all we know about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora’s canon status. While you wait for it to release, check out the rest of our coverage on the game and all things Avatar, including the guides below: