Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

[ThomasNicole]

The movie is probably close to finish so 3 hour must be the final runtime or very close to final. 

 

Hopefully there won't be any more bold statements on the interview, some people was freaking out about his saying people watch 8 hour TV shows and then complain about long movies 

[Macleod]

9 hours ago, eridani said:

The way I'm reading his comment is that he'd very much like to direct number 4 himself, but as the future is not set, who knows what can happen. But, indeed, as he didn't mention number five specifically, it does sound as if he's not terribly keen to do the fifth one himself. (maybe he's not as satisfied with the script of number five?) Or maybe he's just figuring he'll be too old/exhausted by that point to do two big movies in parallel, so he'll be satisfied with directing just one, 4th one, in parallel with someone else directing number 5.

 

(don't let it be Rodriguez, though. His Alita was competent overall, alright, but there were definitely parts of it where the director could not care less as to how to stage a shot)

 

I'm wondering if JC has some minor regrets about letting go of BATTLE ANGEL ALITA (My preferred title)...it wasn't awful, but of course it would have been so much more with Cameron at the helm.  As would have been another Terminator.  

 

I think he knows that once he set things up again with the next couple of AVATARs, they can live on themselves.  Now, it will just be up to his own choices...and the market, like he says.  But these are interesting words from him, for sure.  Either way, if he gets to helm a couple of other things in his later career outside of AVATAR, it's all good news!  I'm a huge supporter of his work regardless, but I'd be so interested to see what else he has in mind...  

Edited July 5, 2022 by Macleod

[eXtacy]

3 hours in a 3D immersive world. Sounds awesome. Definitely gets me hyped more. 

Doesn't seem bad at all since first one was 2:40 and was paced fine

[Lothar]

That "Might" doesn't sound good in my poor english world.

it's just as useless as it should be

Nothing to worry about

 

We mixed the schedules for 2 and 3 together, based on the types of scenes and the environments. I said, let's just treat it like it's a six-hour miniseries and we're only going to go to Frankfurt once. We're going to shoot all the scenes from 2 and 3 at the same time. That was more or less the motif. Actor availability was an issue as well. Anything that had to be done with a specific actor, we did all the scenes for 2 and 3 together — and a little bit of 4. Because once again, I had to shoot the kids out. They're allowed to age six years in the middle of the story on page 25 of movie 4. So I needed everything before then, and then everything after, we'll do later.

 

https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/james-cameron-reveals-how-much-of-avatar-3-and-4-has-already-filmed

Edited July 6, 2022 by Lothar

[Lothar]

Bloody Hell Youtubers gave me mini heart attack with the Title "Avatar 2 new Trailer"

 

wtf man. 

[JustLurking]

40 minutes ago, Lothar said:

That "Might" doesn't sound good in my poor english world.

it's just as useless as it should be

Nothing to worry about

 

We mixed the schedules for 2 and 3 together, based on the types of scenes and the environments. I said, let's just treat it like it's a six-hour miniseries and we're only going to go to Frankfurt once. We're going to shoot all the scenes from 2 and 3 at the same time. That was more or less the motif. Actor availability was an issue as well. Anything that had to be done with a specific actor, we did all the scenes for 2 and 3 together — and a little bit of 4. Because once again, I had to shoot the kids out. They're allowed to age six years in the middle of the story on page 25 of movie 4. So I needed everything before then, and then everything after, we'll do later.

 

https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/james-cameron-reveals-how-much-of-avatar-3-and-4-has-already-filmed

Doesn't this mean avatar 4 has a major timeskip in it?

[Deep Wang]

8 hours ago, Lothar said:

Bloody Hell Youtubers gave me mini heart attack with the Title "Avatar 2 new Trailer"

 

wtf man. 

 

There are entire channels with WAY to many subs that are just fake trailers.  It's quite insane. 

[IronJimbo]

23 minutes ago, Deep Wang said:

 

There are entire channels with WAY to many subs that are just fake trailers.  It's quite insane. 

I think I saw an Avatar 2 trailer on youtube over 10 years ago

[Eric Atreides]

Just now, IronJimbo said:

I think I saw an Avatar 2 trailer on youtube over 10 years ago

I remember being 13 years old watching this Avatar 2 trailer parody, thinking it was the funniest thing of all time. I was not very bright at 13.

 

 

[TheDude391]

2 hours ago, Eric the Minion said:

I remember being 13 years old watching this Avatar 2 trailer parody, thinking it was the funniest thing of all time. I was not very bright at 13.

 

 

Wow, the Na'vi look photoreal!

Spoiler

I remember watching this "parody" as a kid too lol, so thank you for unearthing that memory 😕

 

[WittyUsername]

3 hours ago, Eric the Minion said:

I remember being 13 years old watching this Avatar 2 trailer parody, thinking it was the funniest thing of all time. I was not very bright at 13.

 

 

I have to say, even for something made in 2012, this video seems remarkably lazy.  

[Avatree]

I don't recall the first film getting much flak for being nearly 3 hours long. It's an epic, I dont think many people have an issue with an epic film being 3 hours.

[eddyxx]

4 hours ago, Eric the Minion said:

I remember being 13 years old watching this Avatar 2 trailer parody, thinking it was the funniest thing of all time. I was not very bright at 13.

 

 

You know this predates the marvel take over cause there’s not one single CBM reference in this.

[WittyUsername]

2 minutes ago, eddyxx said:

You know this predates the marvel take over cause there’s not one single CBM reference in this.

Parodies of Christian Bale’s Batman voice were still pretty big at the time. You’d think they would’ve tried to find a way to squeeze that in there, along with a Twilight joke. 

[Macleod]

21 hours ago, JustLurking said:

Doesn't this mean avatar 4 has a major timeskip in it?

 

Yes, but this is old news.  Cameron mentioned it a long while ago in interviews. 

It will be a six-year time jump, undisclosed narrative reasons.  

[Deuce66]

Spoiler

 

A VERY interesting photo from the EMPIRE magazine special.....

 

[Agafin]

$1 = €0,98, £0,83, ¥136...

 

The dollar is at a 20 year high currently. This is almost early Harry Potter/Lotr bad. Seems like Avatar won't be as lucky with exchange rates this time around. 

[EmpireCity]

I heard Avatar 2 runtime is at 3 hour 15min+

 

Whatever it ends up, it's going to be over 3 hours most likely.  

[Valonqar]

Ngl, pretty stoked for Titanic/LOTR/AWE/Endgame-size Pandora adventure. 

Edited July 7, 2022 by Valonqar

[interiorgatordecorator]

25 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

I heard Avatar 2 runtime is at 3 hour 15min+

 

Whatever it ends up, it's going to be over 3 hours most likely.  

 

thats pretty sexy

 

 

 

 

has anyone managed to scan Empire's article(s)?