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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.

A surprising revelation regarding Avatar's director James Cameron surfaced years after the film's debut, and he even acknowledged it.

On the Cameron responded to the rumor by asking: Would he use a nail gun to attach a cellphone to the wall? The actor revealed this in this throwback story and stated that if a cell phone went off, Cameron would fasten it to the wall using a nail gun.

For the underwater sequences and many other scenes during the film, The Way of Water utilises high frame rate technology — running footage at 48 frames per ...

Avatar: The Way of Water comes to theaters on December 16, with a third Avatar film--which has already been filmed--penciled in for 2024.

2009's Avatar is the highest-grossing movie in history, so The Way of Water has very big shoes to fill. The Way of Water is Even if they are, Cameron has said [he might step back and let someone else direct the planned Avatar 4 and Avatar 5.](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/avatar-4-is-a-motherfker-james-cameron-says-but-he-might-not-direct-it-if-it-even-gets-made/1100-6505086/) And when I turned in the script for 3, they gave me a page of notes, so I was getting better. "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. A studio executive who read Cameron's script for Avatar told him in an email, "Holy f**k."

How will "Avatar 2" from director James Cameron do with the Oscars?

LONDON — Filmmaker James Cameron is taking audiences back to his visually mesmerizing world of Pandora, releasing the sequel to his 2009 epic Avatar, ...

The safety has to obviously be in place because you are performing underwater 20 feet down and you have to be very respectful and calm so that everything works in a clockwork manner.” but I think that the enormity of the task, of the world-building… that was difficult,” producer Jon Landau said, adding most of the third movie had been filmed. … We’ll know in a few weeks, I guess.” Sully, Neytiri and their children flee to a far-flung territory, seeking refuge with the oceanic Metkayina clan. “It’s a relief.

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. –

Cameron also explains how Peter Jackson inspired his 'Avatar' writing process and discusses his hopes to direct all five films. Avatar-The-Way-of-Water ...

CAMERON: I think there are a lot of good filmmakers out there and a lot of good filmmakers that understand how to do CG and animation and world-building and all that sort of thing. But I think it would be good to have some kind of a plan in place to be able to turn the reins over. But, I think, in respect to the studio that’s writing these massive checks to create this world, this persistent world, I think it’s good for us to have at least some kind of a plan to hand that over. CAMERON: 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, and when I turned in the script for 3, they gave me a page of notes, so I was getting better. I think that what I would look for was somebody that is willing to be humble before the specific craft of how you make one of these films. So the only way for us to do that was to write all the scripts and let the actors read all of the scripts and see where their characters were going and what it all meant. When I turned in the script for 4, the studio executive, creative executive over the films wrote me an email that said, 'Holy fuck.' And I said, 'Well, where are the notes?' And she said, 'Those are the notes.' Because it kind of goes nuts in a good way, right? I've got a lot of faith that a lot of people are going to prioritize seeing this in the next couple of weeks! 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. Why was that important, and do you think that all film series would benefit from that development process or is that specific to Avatar? 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, you know? When Avatar was made, the ambitious production called for technology that would go on to revolutionize a number of filmmaking techniques, including performance capture.

James Cameron has told returning Disney CEO Bob Iger how elements of the 'Avatar' sequel, 'The Way of Water,' out December 16, could be integrated into the ...

“When [Bob Iger came back](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/bob-iger-replacing-bob-chapek-as-ceo-of-walt-disney-company.html) a couple weeks ago, I did send him an email and say, ‘You know, we can do [Avatar 2 and 3](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/avatar-sequel-announcements-timeline-james-cameron.html) motifs and put them into the physical hardware of Avatar Flight of Passage,” Cameron said. In an interview with [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/global/james-cameron-avatar-2-flopping-1235450255/) about the upcoming blockbuster sequel [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/avatar-2-trailer-release-date-cast.html), the director said he reached out to Disney about potentially adding his sequels to Walt Disney World’s Avatar-themed land in Animal Kingdom called Pandora — The World of Avatar. 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.” Yet another exciting development in the [James Cameron](https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/avatar-day-the-gambit-that-set-up-avatars-success.html) has set his sights as deep as the Mariana trench and as far away as the fictional planet of Pandora, but much as all roads lead to Rome, all entertainments lead to Orlando. But, you know, we would like to carry that along and update it from time to time with things that flow back out of the new movies. [Iger 2.0 era](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/bob-iger-disney-plus-streaming-future.html).

Never one to shy away from a technical challenge, James Cameron wants Avatar viewers to fall in love with 3D and high frame rate.

Both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Cameron's “Avatar” franchise utilize extensive motion capture technology so that real-world actors can play otherworldly ...

The things that really ground us and give us power, love and a purpose? [James Cameron](https://variety.com/t/james-cameron/) told ComicBook.com in a recent video interview that when it comes to motion capture and building emotive faces from VFX, [Marvel](https://variety.com/t/marvel/) villain Thanos doesn’t hold a candle to the Na’vi. “In the first movie, Sam’s character leaps off his flying creature and essentially changes the course of history as a result of this crazy, almost suicidal leap of faith. “Our team at WETA Digital is constantly having new hires, and it’s coming out of that pool,” Cameron continued. But when you’re a parent, you don’t think that way. That said, WETA Effects, as it’s called now, is the best.

The Oscar winner said it's “not even close” between how the Na'vi creatures of “Avatar” look side by side with “Avengers: Endgame” villain Thanos, played by ...

They’re a horrible client, and I’ve seen way too many colleagues break down after being overworked, while Marvel tightens the purse strings.” The things that really ground us and give us power, love, and a purpose? Those characters don’t experience it, and I think that’s not the way to make movies.” “When I look at these big, spectacular films — I’m looking at you, Marvel and DC — it doesn’t matter how old the characters are, they all act like they’re in college. “Obviously the big comic book films have been driving the sheer volume of the industry,” Cameron continued. That said, WETA Effects, as it’s called now, is the best.

Let's be clear, though: the director of Avatar: The Way of Water insists that he "loves" Marvel and DC movies.

But in [a new interview](https://gizmodo.com/avatar-the-way-of-water-sigourney-weaver-teen-character-1849859936) for [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://gizmodo.com/avatar-2-release-date-delay-james-cameron-pandora-water-1849854621), he weighed in on the VFX used to create Marvel villain [Thanos](https://gizmodo.com/yes-thanos-is-hot-1825931804), versus the VFX that brings his Avatar characters [to life](https://gizmodo.com/avatar-the-way-of-water-reactions-review-james-cameron-1849860929). However, the director who once declared himself “king of the world” is confident he’s king of digital characters, too. And then, as we’re putting our team together, and as [Weta FX] is constantly having to have new hires and so on, it’s coming from that pool, it improves everything together.” “Obviously the big comic book superhero films have been driving the sheer volume of the [visual effects] industry, and the rising tide of technique raises everybody together. And while he may indeed enjoy the plot and characters, that’s not what he focused on as he continued to explain what he most appreciates about the superhero movie genre. Love those movies, let’s just get that off the table,” he said in a video interview