{"id":108255,"date":"2019-05-16T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=108255"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:16:35","slug":"avatar-2-casts-jemaine-clement-as-a-marine-biologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/avatar-2-casts-jemaine-clement-as-a-marine-biologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar 2 casts Jemaine Clement as a marine biologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a good day when the brilliant Jemaine Clement is cast in something, so here&#8217;s some fun news: the\u00a0<em><strong>Flight Of The Concords<\/strong><\/em> star has officially joined the cast of James Cameron&#8217;s upcoming\u00a0<em><strong>Avatar<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0sequels.<\/p>\n<p>Clement will play a Pandora marine biologist named Dr Garvin, as announced on the films&#8217; Twitter account:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">???? Casting announcement!<\/p>\n<p>Jemaine Clement has been cast in the Avatar sequels as Dr. Garvin, a marine biologist on Pandora.<\/p>\n<p>Glad to have you aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJemaineClement?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AJemaineClement<\/a>! It&#8217;s Business Time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AvatarFamily?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AvatarFamily<\/a> ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B0EYbtErdo\">pic.twitter.com\/B0EYbtErdo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Avatar (@officialavatar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialavatar\/status\/1128691582633480194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Casting announcement! Jemaine Clement has been cast in the Avatar sequels as Dr. Garvin, a marine biologist on Pandora,&#8221; the tweet reads. &#8220;Glad to have you aboard <span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">AJemaineClement<\/span>! It&#8217;s Business Time. <span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">#<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">AvatarFamily&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clement joins a cast currently made up of the likes of Zoe Saldana, Kate Winslet, Oona Chaplin, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi and David Thewlis.<\/p>\n<p>As well as <em><strong>Flight Of The Concords<\/strong><\/em>, the\u00a0actor is also known for his work in\u00a0<em><strong>Men In Black 3<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Eagle Vs Shark<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>What We Do In The Shadows<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Moana<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Legion<\/strong><\/em> and more.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Avatar 2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is the first of four scheduled\u00a0<em><strong>Avatar\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>sequels currently slated for release. The film is being directed by James Cameron from a script by Cameron, Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Avatar 2<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0is in cinemas from 17 December 2021. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jemaine Clement has joined the cast of the Avatar sequels as a marine biologist <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":108256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[240],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jemaine-clement-conde-nast-traveller-28nov14-pa_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}