James Cameron wrote the first script for “Avatar 2” but discarded it for this reason

After the premiere of the first ‘Avatar’ movie, James Cameron immediately got to work on the sequel, which took many years to wait, since the director’s other projects, plus he couldn’t figure out what that meant. delayed launch. It wasn’t until 2022 that “The Way of Water” will come out, even though it had another story before.

When the first science fiction adventure film with Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña came out, James Cameron started working ‘Avatar 2However, the director of “Titanic” was not very convinced by the initial ideas for the sequel and soon began to discard some of the scripts he had planned. For this reason, among other things, it was that the second part was delayed for many years.

In this regard, in an interview for The Times UK, James Cameron revealed that he discarded the first script ‘Avatar 2’because it wasn’t perfect by their standards. The director was even so frustrated that he completely discarded the story he was going to create and started working from scratch with more effort this time around.

When I sat down with my writers to start ‘Avatar 2’ I told them we couldn’t do the next one until we figured out why the first one worked so well. We had to crack the code of what the hell happened. “

The reason for discarding the first script, he explains James Cameron, it was because the story of ‘Avatar 2’ did not meet your needs: “All films work on different levels. The first is the surface. The second is thematic. But ‘Avatar’ also works on a third level, the subconscious. I wrote a full script for the sequel, read it, and realized it wasn’t level three. Boom. Restart. It took a year. ”

What is the third level of “Avatar 2”?

Although he seems a bit confused, James Cameron previously explained the third level that the first script of “Avatar” did not reach, in an interview for The Marianne Williamson Podcast, referring to the ability to find in the history of the tape those points that they emotionally connect the audience with what their characters are going through.

It was also James Cameron himself who fired almost all of the staff of collaborators on the script, since it was just about proposing action stories, instead of thinking about how to evolve and tell new character plots that weren’t necessarily centered around. action as the director. of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ mentions.

With all this, James Cameron promises that ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ will be at the height of the first part, and may even surpass its first part in some aspects, especially technical ones. The sequel release date with Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet, among others, will be released on December 15, 2022.