We were very young when’Avatar‘ hit theaters. He was also the 3D, technology that saw in this film an opportunity to take off into what seemed like the future. However, the trends changed very quickly and the glasses were being parked.
On December 18, 2009, theaters around the world welcomed ‘Avatar‘, film directed by James Cameron. Few could have foreseen that it would become the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing Titanic at the time (now third on the list, also surpassed by ‘Avengers: Endgame’, according to IMDbPro data).
It’s been 13 years for us to see the sequel to the hit movie. ‘avatar 2‘, either ‘Avatar: The Way of Water‘, hits theaters on Friday, December 16, bringing together Jake Sully, Ney’tiri and Pandorawhich they will have to protect against the return of “an ancient threat”, according to the synopsis.
Without going into possible ‘spoilers’, the first film deals with the mission carried out in Pandora by the ex-marine in a wheelchair Jake Sully in the year 2154, who is there looking for a mineral that can put an end to the crisis that the Earth is experiencing.
A “fucking expensive” movie
After the first information that pointed to its premiere in 2015, the appointment has been delayed until 2022, accompanied by those three films that we will see on Christmas dates. Things have changed a lot in the cinema in 13 yearswhich is why the premiere of this film is a mystery.
Will we have more technology than history? Will the sequel be able to hold up to the legacy of the original film? Does the world of Pandora have much to tell yet? These are the big questions that surround a premiere with more ‘crumb’ than it may seem.
And it is that, as James Cameron himself has recognized in GQ, ‘Avatar 2’ will have to be the “third or fourth highest grossing film of all time” to be profitable. If not, it will be “the worst business in the history of cinema”, since it has been “fucking expensive” to make. “I like the difficult, it attracts me, it’s a fucking attraction for me,” she confesses.
For this film, Cameron needed cameras that could record underwater, a new motion capture system, new algorithms, and new Artificial Intelligence. He has had to change everything in order not to change anything, maintaining the essence that he left millions of people speechless when they saw ‘Avatar’ for the first time. Replicate that visual landmark is the first litmus test for Cameron.
“Something so great had been done in life”
At laSexta, we have had the opportunity to speak with one of the people involved in the ‘Avatar 2’ process. Aitor Echevestedigital composer of the film, explains that the final result that we will be able to see in the cinema is “quite spectacular” on a visual level.
“At the production level, the hardest thing is how big it is. It has 3,000 totally digital plans, something so big had been done in life. The leap in quality that has been made is brutal. We’re more used to these kinds of movies now than the first, but the detail is incredible. You’ve never seen anything like it in a movie,” he confesses.
Duration, cast…
The film will be over three hours long and will focus on the family made up of the protagonists, incarnated again by Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana. they also come back stephen lang (General Miles Quaritch) and Sigourney Weaver (Grace Augustine), in addition to having the star signings of Kate Winslet or David ThewlisProfessor Remus Lupine in the Harry Potter saga.
What has caused the delay in the arrival of this film is the technology itself, with Cameron’s obsession with capturing movement underwater, as well as the evolution of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery, or computer generated images), present in the big Marvel blockbusters, for example
What’s more, Cameron himself puffed out the effects that his new film will have, alluding to the great villain of Marvel. “Thanos? Please. It doesn’t even come close to us“He stated in an interview on ‘ComicBook’.
What comes next? Much more Avatar
After waiting 13 years, and after the premiere of ‘Avatar 2’, many more installments of the saga remain to arrive. What’s more, Sam Worthington assured on ‘The Tonight Show’ that ‘Avatar 3’ is already shot “80 or 90%”, with “some scenes” from ‘Avatar 4’ already shot.
We even already know the planned release dates for these two films and for Avatar 5, being the following:
- avatar 3: December 20, 2024.
- avatar 4: December 18, 2026.
- avatar 5: December 22, 2028.
It is striking that, when the film has not yet been released, the film already has two Golden Globe nominations: one for James Cameron (best direction) and another for best drama film.
Source: Lasexta
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