Sci-Fi Avatar: The Way Of Water

[Schlosser85]

I almost wish the lovely Kate Winslet was playing a human instead of Na'vi, apparently, but still Kate Winslet.

Also I see she got over saying she'd never work with Cameron again after accusing him of almost drowning her during Titanic. Kudos to her on wanting to do her own underwater work, especially having her previous bad experience with a Cameron movie.

 

[Iceman]

I like the look of the crabsuit.

 

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[terry78]

Here we go.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Cameron finally gets to make his Spider-Man!

 

[Pennywise]

Cameron finally gets to make his Spider-Man!

Has the right look.

 

[Doctor Jones]

By the time this movie comes out that kid will be getting AARP magazines.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

Can’t wait for the Navi vs the Na’vi

 

[Kane52630]

 

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Avatar 3 Has Almost Finished Filming

During a one-on-one interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote the 2020 Austrian World Summit, Cameron confirms that Avatar 3 has almost finished filming. Cameron explained that because about four and a half months of production was lost due to coronavirus, Avatar 2 has been pushed back to a December 2022 release, but that Avatar 3will be wrapping up right behind it. "The day we deliver Avatar 2, we’ll just start working on finishing Avatar 3," said Cameron. "So where we are right now, I’m down in New Zealand shooting. We’re shooting the remainder of the live-action. We’ve got about ten percent left to go. We’re a hundred percent complete on Avatar 2, and we’re sort of ninety-five percent complete on Avatar 3."

 

[metaphysician]

. . .so, has he told anyone why, if Avatar 3 is nearly finished filming, he hasn't actually released Avatar *2* yet?

 

[Primal Slayer]

Didn't they shoot it at the same time? Its 90% CGI so that alone takes years.0

 

[Schlosser85]

Probably massive amounts of post-production effects work.

 

[Albright]

i bet, they‘re done filming Avatar 5&6 before Avatar is really released...

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

It will be nice to finally see these sequels start to come out. Over a decade is a long wait for a sequel to one of the most successful movies of all time.

But you doubt Cameron at your peril with these things, so I am sure he has something up his sleeve.

 

[:eek:]

Long wait? Sure, but 13 years is still less than the 16 years between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace, the 14 years between Jurassic Park 3 and Jurassic World, or the 19 years between Matrix 3 and 4.

Then again, I suppose you can't rule out more delays if this pandemic keeps going.

 

[metaphysician]

I realize, it just feels like. . . look, if 90% of the work is post-production CGI, then you shouldn't be nearly as tied to a whole expensive mountain of physical sets and shoots, in the same way that, say. . the Lord of the Rings was. So, why not actually finish the *first* sequel, release it, and find out if anyone wants to actually watch it, *before* spending billions making *four more movies*?

And I know the answer to this question, too: because James Cameron is a remarkably, almost singularly talented. . . film making megalomaniac. The idea of planning against the possibility of his own movie *not* succeeding is probably anathema. But seriously, this kind of "Full speed ahead" production is what crippled most of the DCEU.

 

[Filmfreak]

The second Avatar film will definitely be released before he starts filming the fourth and fifth, so the studio will see the how it's received first. But this very common in Hollywood in the last decade. Movies are getting shot back-to-back all the time so I don't see where the actual problem is.

What crippled the DCEU was lack of planning. They wanted another MCU and they wanted to take a big shortcut to get there. Cameron has been focusing entirely on these movies for more than a decade. Totally different situation.

 

[Kane52630]

Cameron also got Disney's marketing machine behind him now.

 

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[DarkKnight88]

I was just thinking that at one point Avatar 2 was supposed to be released this Christmas. All the delays actually ended up being a blessing in disguise.