Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is still quite some distance from release, but now we have confirmation that it’s canon and taking place during the events of The Way of Water.
It shouldn’t come as much surprise that the game is canon – after all, everything from 2009’s Avatar: The Game to Cirque du Soleil’s Toruk: The First Flight are still part of the story – but a new interview with producer Jon Landau sheds some light on how the filmmakers are treating adaptations in other media. Mostly, they don’t want them to be adaptations at all. They want new stories that take place in unexplored parts of the fictional universe.
To that end, “Frontiers of Pandora takes place in the western frontier of Pandora,” Landau tells Polygon (opens in new tab). “That’s not somewhere we’ve gone before. It takes place in the timeframe after Avatar: The Way of Water opens, but before the…
