In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, the acclaimed director JamesCameron reveals what happened between him and an executive Fox during a preview of ‘avatar’even before the film hit theaters in 2009.
The director said the executive approached him with an “expression that he’d been diagnosed with cancer” and asked him to shorten the film’s screen time. In response, Cameron cursed the executive, saying:
“I think this movie will make all the damn money. And when you do, it will be too late for you to love him. The time to love him is now. I’m not asking you to feel what you’re not feeling, I’m asking you to understand […] no matter how much you flatter the movie in the future after earning all the money. […] You can’t go back and praise the film and say, “Look what we did together.” You won’t be able to.”
Cameron continues: “By this point the executive was in shock. And I told him to get the hell out of my office. And that’s what happened.”
In another interview, this time with SlashFilm, Cameron said he already has a plan for the longawaited sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” fail at the box office.
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“The market can tell us that we’re done or half done in three months, like, ‘okay, let’s finish the story in the third movie, and it won’t take forever’ if it’s not profitable… We’ We’re in a different world than we were when I wrote the story. It’s a doubleedged sword the pandemic and streaming. Or on the contrary, maybe we remind people what it means to go to the theater,” he said.
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It is worth remembering that we have already seen 15 minutes of the film, it arrives in national cinemas December 15 of this year13 years after the release of the original.
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The final cut of the sequence has 3 hours and 10 minutes28 minutes longer than the first film.
The first chapter of ‘avatar’ had nothing less than 162 minutes long (so almost two hours and forty minutes) and the filmmaker has already said he wants to go further in the sequence.
“I don’t want anyone to complain about the duration, especially since they sit down and run a marathon [de séries] for eight hours,” he commented. “I can already see that part in the reviews: ‘The haunting threehour film…’. It’s like leave me alone. I watched fivehour episodes with my kids. That’s the societal paradigm that needs to change: it’s okay to get up and go to the bathroom.”
Set over a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water‘ begins the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their children), telling the troubles that accompany them, the struggles they make to stay safe, the struggles they face to survive, and the tragedies that they endure.
Directed by JamesCameronthe filmstar Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni Ribisi and Kate Winslet🇧🇷
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