‘Avatar: Sense of Water’: James Cameron spent over a year writing a script that he threw away

Next December 16th ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ will arrive in Spanish cinemas. The long-awaited sequel to “Avatar” will come back to the big screen hand in hand, how could it be otherwise, James Cameron. The “Titanic” director gave an interview for The Times UK where he claimed it he spent over a year writing an entire script for the film which he threw away.

Due to the historical success of the original film, that managed to regain its position as the highest-grossing film in historyIt’s normal that Cameron wanted to put all possible effort and effort into the sequel to, at least, somehow get close to his level.

“All films work on different levels. The first is superficial, which is the character, the problem and the resolution. The second is thematic. What is the film trying to say? But ‘Avatar’ also works on a third level, the subconscious. . I wrote a full script for the sequel, read it, and realized it just didn’t go to the third level. Boom. Restart. that it took me a year”explains the manager.

Why was the original film successful?

This is the question that worried Cameron the most, discovering that the DNA that made ‘Avatar’ marked a before and after in the history of cinema: “When I sat down with my writers to start “Avatar: Sense of Water”, I told them we couldn’t do the next one until we figured out why the first one worked so well.. We need to crack the code of what the hell happened. “.

It is not the first time that the creator of “Terminator 2: The Last Judgment” talks about the importance of understanding the success of the first installment of the world of Pandora. During a speech on The Marianne Williamson Podcast, Cameron revealed that he came close to firing the sequel’s writers for trying to create the film’s story instead of discovering initial success: “When I sat down to write the sequels, I knew by then it was going to be three and eventually it became four, and I gathered a group of writers and told them: “I don’t want to hear anyone’s new ideas or proposals until we’ve spent some time figuring out what worked in the first film, what’s connected and why it worked.”. They still wanted to talk about the new stories. I told them, “We won’t do it again.” Eventually I had to threaten to fire them all because they were doing what writers do, which is trying to create new stories.. I said, ‘We have to figure out what the connection was and protect it, protect that ember and that flame.’ “.

We can remember the first ‘Avatar’ in theaters from September 30th, with a remastered version which will be accompanied by an exclusive preview of the sequel. Tickets are on sale now.