December 16, 2022. This is the date chosen to bring us back to Pandora with “Avatar: The Sense of Water”, the long-awaited sequel to “Avatar”, the highest-grossing film of all time. Released in 2009, the James Cameron-directed film revolutionized cinema technically and took the world by storm. Cameron finalized his plans to expand it as a saga a long time ago, but he took his time to make them happen. Finally, 13 years later, we’re about to see what he has prepared for us in that sequel.
Six months after the premiere of “Avatar: The Sense of Water”, Cameron wanted to go back and revealed how he presented Fox with his plan to develop the Pandora story as a saga, years before Disney bought 20th Century and assume the rights to its creation. It was in an interview with Empire magazine, in which the director explains the plan he has been developing for more than a decade and which was largely based on one of the most famous and influential fantasy sagas: “The Lord of the Rings. “. .
“What I said to the Fox bosses at the time was, ‘I’ll do it, but we have to play the long game with this. I don’t want to just do one movie, then another, and then another. I want to tell a bigger story. ‘”Cameron explains. “I told them, ‘Imagine there was a series of novels like’ The Lord of the Rings’ and we had to adapt them’. And well, in theory it sounded good, but then I had to start making those damn novels to adapt them. “.
Following this model of a fictional adaptation of a literary saga in the style of JRR Tolkien, Cameron began to conceive the continuations of ‘Avatar’. While it remains to be seen how the first will go and nothing is 100% guaranteed in this uncertain cinematic landscape, “Avatar 3” is already underway, with a premiere scheduled for 2024, so it’s pretty much assured. And from there, Cameron’s plan is to make “Avatar 4” and “Avatar 5”, as he announced years ago, before Disney acquired Fox. “I really had to think if I wanted to make another ‘Avatar’ movie, because there was so much to lose”he tells Empire. “When you’ve done something that’s been so successful, do you really want to try again? There is a lot of pressure. I thought about it for two years before signing a contract”.
Quaritch returns
If a few days ago we learned the identity of Kate Winslet’s character in ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’, where the ‘Titanic’ actress plays a Na’vi warrior, and we found out that Sigourney Weaver will play the adopted teenage daughter by Jake and Neytiri, now we also have new details on the return of Stephen Lang as Miles Quaritch.
Empire magazine has also been tasked with showing us the first look at the sequel’s character, who after succumbing to the original at the hands of Neytiri, returns as Na’vi, that is, with his consciousness within an avatar body. About this “new” Quaritch, Lang says it now “he’s bigger, bluer and pissed off”. And he adds, “But there may be an aspect of humility to it. When two Na’vi arrows are thrust into your chest, it is normal for it to have some effect on you.”. “He was always a character who moved in line and at right angles, but now he’s more agile than ever. Now he can move with the same cunning and wild quality as any Na’vi.”.
“Avatar: Sense of Water” will be released in theaters on December 16.
Source: E Cartelera
