The filmmaker justifies the decision to throw away a preliminary Avatar 2 script because it didn’t meet the three requirements he needed for the sequel.
After writing, directing and producing two of the biggest global hits of the last 25 years with titanica Y Avatar, the Oscar-winning director james cameron he does not hesitate to impose his creative decisions on his current and future films. Therefore, it should not surprise anyone that Cameron got away with crafting his story for the long-awaited Avatar 2 (subtitled the sense of water), although the filmmaker has taken much longer to achieve it.
The first film in the franchise was released in 2009, becoming a box office monster with more than $2.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales against a budget of $245 million after its initial run in the United States. theaters and subsequent re-releases. The current number is set to increase with the special re-release of Avatar in theaters this weekend, a move no doubt planned to get movie fans excited for the sequel’s December release.
As the title of the film suggests, Avatar: The Water Sense will take the action from the surface to the aquatic environment, and Cameron went to unusually extreme measures to ensure the sequel’s narrative lived up to the story of the 2009 film. He even went as far as tossing out a script after all. a year of work, as the filmmaker confessed to The Times UK
“When I sat down with my writers to start ‘Avatar 2,’ I told them we couldn’t do the next one until we understood why the first one did so well,” Cameron said. “We have to crack the code of what the hell happened.”
“All movies work on different levels. The first is the superficial, which is the character, the problem and the resolution. The second is the theme. What is the movie trying to say? But Avatar also works on a third level, the subconscious.. I wrote a complete script for the sequel, read it and I realized that I did not reach the third level. Boom. Start again. That took me a year.”
During an appearance on The Marianne Williamson Podcast Last year, Cameron elaborated more on this third level, which, according to him, allowed Avatar to become the highest grossing film of all time worldwide.
“There was a tertiary level as well… it was a dreamlike sense of a longing to be there, to be in that space, to be somewhere that is safe and where you wanted to be,” Cameron said. “Whether it’s flying, that feeling of freedom and exhilaration, or whether it’s being in the woods where you can smell the earth. It was a sensory thing that communicated on such a deep level. That was the spirituality of the first film.”
Cameron revealed in the same interview that he came close to firing the writers of the Avatar sequel because they were initially bent on creating new stories instead of figuring out the DNA that made the first film break records.
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