Avatar sequels have finally moved on from the papyrus font

Filming on the first two of the four planned sequels has officially wrapped

Avatar has finally turned its back on the Papyrus font.

The 2009 film was roundly mocked in a popular Saturday Night Live sketch last year in which guest host Ryan Gosling played a man haunted by the creative decision to use a default computer font for the film’s title.

“He just highlighted Avatar, he clicked the drop-down menu, and then just randomly selected Papyrus,” his character says of the film’s graphic designer. “Like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden, just yanking leaves along the way.”

The new Avatar logo (20th Century Fox)

Whether by pure coincidence, or as proof that Gosling’s pleas worked, the official Avatar Twitter account has now debuted a new – and Papyrus-less – logo.

Filming has officially wrapped on the first two of the four planned Avatar sequels, with director James Cameron teasing that “never before seen parts” of the fictional Pandora will be explored, adding that the films will primarily be set underwater.

Avatar 2 and 3 will be released in 2020 and 2021, while the fourth and fifth instalments are scheduled for release in 2024 and 2025.

Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, and Stephen Lang all return to the franchise, joined by newcomers Oona Chaplin, Kate Winslet, and Cliff Curtis.

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