Avatar 2 will be coming to theaters on December 18, 2020, and will be followed by Avatar 3 on December 17, 2021.
Released in 2009, the first Avatar film remains the highest-grossing film worldwide with over $2.7 billion in box office grosses.
Rao will join others returning from the original film, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Joel David Moore, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald and Sigourney Weaver.
Director James Cameron’s initiative to bring everyone from the original cast back for the Avatar sequels just got closer to a complete set as Deadline brings word that Dileep Rao will return as scientist Dr. Max Patel.