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The period between these two films is the longest gap in Cameron's filmography (the span between Titanic and Avatar comes close to twelve years), making The Way ...

But only five films have ever reached $2 billion, and two of them—the only original properties—came from Cameron, so we’ll see with The Way of Water if Cameron can continue this remarkable streak of successes. All of our priorities suddenly didn’t mean what we thought they meant, and recovering and coming out of that and getting back into production, and then working for a subsequent couple of years on a film that might not have theaters to play in. In a recent interview with Cameron, Collider’s Perri Nemiroff asked about this thirteen-year gap between Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water and asked what was the low point of this period, if he ever wondered if the film might not happen, and how he overcame that uncertainty. We just have to be better.” But as they say, you shouldn’t bet against Cameron, and with new Avatar films on the way every two years from now until 2026, it looks like Cameron is back for good. The period between these two films is the longest gap in Cameron’s filmography (the span between Titanic and Avatar comes close to twelve years), making The Way of Water highly anticipated simply for the fact that this film has taken so long to come to fruition.

The Avatar director knows exactly what kind of life Jake and Neyteri had between the first film and The Way of Water.

Cameron has been thinking about the larger Avatar universe, and the interconnected, intergenerational drama of these movies, for a very long time. [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://gizmodo.com/new-avatar-2-trailer-james-cameron-pandora-fox-disney-1849810435), James Cameron apparently knows exactly how the main characters of his first film lived their lives during that time. “Jim realized that that story was about them being warriors and taking on battles with other clans,” Worthington said.

For Avatar: The Way of Water filmmaker James Cameron, making a sequel to the world's highest-grossing movie ever was “a lot to live up to.”

Winslet had great praise for Saldana and Worthington, “It’s one thing for Jim to write it, it’s quite another to find it and give it a life and a pulse… She added, “The leap of falling in love with something outside of you that challenges you to see something that you’ve never seen before, that has always been her dilemma. Cameron noted that “major sparks” between the two alpha females played by Saldana and Winslet in Way of Water “resolve over time, not just with this film but across into movie three as well. You wanted to explore what this family has done, the natural extension of this love story, that gave us a good jumping off point to understand to fill in that gap.” was a big incentive” to come back and “do it all again.” Said Cameron, “It seems obvious to everyone, ‘Oh, you just made a bunch of money, go do a sequel.’ Well, Steven Spielberg didn’t do a sequel to ET, the highest grossing film in its time.

James Cameron reveals the notes he got from the studio on Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar 3, and Avatar 4 which allegedly goes nuts in a good way.

“I can’t tell you the details, but all I can say is that when I turned in the script for 2, the studio gave me three pages of notes. Cameron is back with a sequel for the first time in thirty-one years with [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://collider.com/tag/avatar-2/), the sequel to his 2009 blockbuster, [Avatar](https://collider.com/tag/avatar/). By the time we get down to 4 and 5, if we’re so lucky, knock wood, to get that far, which is obviously driven by market forces, we have to be successful.” And like Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films, Cameron said of his plan to write all the films before starting production on The Way of Water: So I felt I had to do the same thing.

James Cameron brought a select group of lucky junketeers, critics, and awards pundits in major cities back to Pandora on Tuesday, for the first screenings ...

As the most expensive movie ever made he puts it all on the screen. About on par with the first. The story, the spectacle, the spirituality, the beauty – this is moviemaking & storytelling at its absolute finest. streaming found dead in a ditch. or giant whales subtitled in papyrus. Yes the world is expanded and sequels teased but the characters are most important. But it is the story this time that’s the beating heart. [#AvatarTheWayOfWater]is a monumental filmmaking achievement striking a great balance between technical & emotional. But it’s also interminably, ploddingly overlong, and more impressive than truly absorbing. But British critic Christina Newland is a little less impressed. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER is how you do epic blockbuster-ing. James Cameron once again shows filmmakers how it’s done.

For most directors, the pressure of making a sequel to the highest-grossing film in history (unadjusted for inflation) might be too much to bear, ...

On the topic of family trips, Variety asks Cameron whether “Pandora – The World of Avatar” – the “Avatar”-themed land at Walt Disney World in Orlando – might be getting a water ride to tie in with the sequel. Because I think there’s a good synergy between the physical base where you can go and just kind of meditate and be on Pandora and how the movies progress the story and bring in new imagery.” “When Bob Iger came back a couple weeks ago, I did send him an email and say, ‘You know, we can do “Avatar 2” and 3 motifs and put them into the physical hardware of “Avatar Flight of Passage” [a ride in which visitors can experience flying on a banshee],’” he reveals. “I figured the best way to learn is on a reef,” he explains. “They very quickly became family,” says Champion of the adult cast. “I had to kind of pull way back and say, ‘Alright, we’ve got a story to tell about people, about family, about conflict, about conservation, obviously.’” Was there anything he wanted to do for “Avatar 2” that was simply too wacky, like maybe trying to mo-cap a real whale? As well as meeting some new tribes, audiences will also be introduced to a cornucopia of exotic new creatures in “Avatar 2,” including the whale-like tulkun and the plesiosaur-inspired ilu, which the sea people use to ride the oceans. “Avatar: The Way of Water” sees audiences return to Pandora, where human turned Na’vi Jake Sully is now married (to Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana) and looking after a gaggle of teenage children while simultaneously fighting off the invading humans attempting to colonize his new-found home. Now [for] Neytiri, the shoe’s on the other foot; she’s having to learn to be one of the one of the sea people. Which is why when it came to writing “Avatar 2,” setting it in and around the water was a “no brainer,” he says. But then most directors – actually, most humans – haven’t been down to the bottom of the Mariana trench, the world’s deepest oceanic trench where pressure is a way of life.

From 'Terminator' to 'Titanic' to 'Avatar', director James Cameron has pushed Hollywood's technical wizardry to new limits, but human emotion must always ...

all that happens first, and then all the technical work begins," he said. "We brought in machine deep learning and plugged AI into various stages of the process to assist us... But they represent the better angels of our nature. Artists create art -- that's important." "The technology doesn't create art. Not everybody can paint a picture," the Canadian director said.

Cameron sees 'Avatar' as awakening that thing in all of us, that connection to nature.

all that happens first, and then all the technical work begins," he said. But they represent the better angels of our nature. "We brought in machine deep learning and plugged AI into various stages of the process to assist us... they don't look like us, they're blue, they've got the ears and tails. Artists create art -- that's important." "The technology doesn't create art. Not everybody can paint a picture," the Canadian director said. He sees "Avatar" as "awakening that thing in all of us, that connection to nature. Cameron has always justified the vast sums he has asked of studios -- "Titanic" was both the most expensive and most profitable film of all time following its release in 1997, only to be topped by "Avatar" in 2009 -- and he feels that responsibility "every day". "I can't be whimsical or impulsive, I have to be very focused and dedicated to creating something that's both pleasing to me artistically, and that I think will be pleasing to the public and commercial enough to make some money," he said. not to take the place of the actors at all but actually to be more truthful to what they had done," he said. From "Terminator" to "Titanic" to "

"I don't think anything one does artistically in life should be determined by the trolls and the naysayers."

The Way of Water is 2009's Avatar is the highest-grossing movie in history, so The Way of Water has very big shoes to fill. People who saw the movie called it Writer-director James Cameron isn't worried about the possibility that Avatar: The Way of Water will be a flop at the box office. I don't think anything one does artistically in life should be determined by the trolls and the naysayers. "I don't worry about it.

Critics on social media say the long-awaited sequel is a visually astounding technical marvel (as expected), but also a complex, emotionally resonant story ...

You can set your browser to block these Cookies, but some parts of the site may not function properly. Click on the Cookie categories or the “Detailed Purpose Descriptions” below to learn more about these Cookies. Watching Avatar: The Way of Water reminds me of the first time I watched anything on an OLED television, but also double that. Yeah, leave it to James Cameron to crack that one. But the thing I dug most is how the technical feats always feel in service of character & world-building. Maybe too overwhelming. It’s overwhelming. At some point you remember that it’s all VFX, and your brain collapses. It is absolutely mind-boggling that none of this stuff exists. He loves this family. He is never leaving Pandora. –