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And when the universe wanted him maximum, he returned to us. Payakan, the delicate, misunderstood unhealthy boy of Tulkun society first offered in Avatar: The Approach of Water,will go back “on the very best stage” for the 3rd movie within the franchise, Avatar: Hearth and Ash, which debuted a primary have a look at photos at CinemaCon 2025. We have now the colourful Payakan fandom to thank for it. “He’s grew to become out to be probably the most in style characters,” VFX manager and Avatar EP Richard Baneham instructed Empirein a tale in regards to the making of the 3rd movie in James Cameron’s franchise. “The response emboldened us to move ahead and play Payakan on the very best stage.” And OME (Oh my Eywa), he’s getting a female friend. Sorry, girls, he’s taken!
Within the 2022 movie, Payakan is an outcast, exiled from his advanced space-whale society for in search of vengeance in opposition to the barbaric people who killed his mom, famously telling his Na’vi buddy Lo’ak that the reminiscence of the incident was once “too painful.” Whilst his violent movements went in opposition to the pacifist Tulkun Approach, the ones maverick, go-getter qualities are precisely what permit him to avoid wasting his fellow Tulkun from evil whalers towards the tip of the movie. He’s form of a Luigi determine however a whale. In Hearth and Ash, audiences will meet Payakan’s new better half, a feminine Tulkun named Ta’nok. Baneham says she’s “some other outcast” and that “There’s a actually nice dynamic between them.” Seems like Pandora’s new “It” couple.
Audiences can even meet the leaders of this Tulkun extended family, named Matriarch and Patriarch. Those exciting new insights into the Tulkun way of living will hit theaters on December 19, 2025. Handiest 258 sleeps till Payakan!
