Avatar: Means of the Water (to not be confused with Avatar: The Final Airbender) will characteristic a three-hour, 10-minute runtime. Director James Cameron says it is as a result of there’s extra emotion, in line with his new interview with Whole Movie (through Selection).
“The aim is to inform a particularly compelling story on an emotional foundation,” Cameron stated. “I might say the emphasis within the new movie is extra on character, extra on story, extra on relationships, extra on emotion. We did not spend as a lot time on relationship and emotion within the first movie as we do within the second movie, and it’s an extended movie, as a result of there’s extra characters to service. There’s extra story to service.”
“Folks say, ‘Oh my god, a household story from Disney? Simply what we wish,'” Cameron continued. “This is not that sort of household story. It is a household like Sopranos is a household story.”
Cameron has been on a tear this yr with feedback about his and different movies. Along with evaluating his movie to Sopranos, he additionally in contrast it to Lord of the Rings. He additionally stated that Marvel characters must have children for the movies to be mature (along with calling Aquaman unrealistic in 2019), and reminded us that his films are “hideously costly,” which is why the deliberate Avatar movies 4 and 5 won’t occur. He additionally stated that should you noticed his movie at dwelling, you “actually have not seen it.”
Avatar: The Means of Water hits theaters on December 16, 2022.
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