We chat with AvatarTheWayofWater producer JonLandau explains the long wait for the sequel and shares behind-the-scenes secrets that enhance the movie:
Avatar: The Way of Water throws the Sully family into a new adventure. Taking place over ten years after the events of the first movie, Avatar: The Way of Water sees Jake Sully and Neytiri as the leaders of their clan, with a family of four children. When humans return to Pandora, Jake and Neytiri must decide how to best protect their family from this dangerous threat.
And we defined our story, and then we challenged our designers to look at real world things that could be inspirations for creating a world that most audiences couldn't even imagine, and then we challenged Weta Effects to deliver that at a photo real level where people will question, "Well what oceans did they go to do this? What did they do to do that?" And create something that I believe is a must-see on the big screen experience.
Jon Landau: Look, people say, "What took so long?" The first thing that took time was writing four scripts. We couldn't just write one and go, "Okay, we're satisfied." We had to write all four. Why was that important? Several reasons. One, we wanted our actors to know where their characters go because the decisions they make early on are going to impact later decisions.
Also, they're in a mixed race family. All of those dynamics, and how does that impact their kids? But it's not just told I think from the parents' perspective. We have characters that we've spent time developing their stories that are teenagers. Struggling to find their own place in this world.
But what Jim also does, he never rests on the laurels of his past. He challenges himself, and he challenges the others around him to progress things to raise the bar, and that's one of the really exciting and daunting things about working with Jim. But what happens is the people around us, they find that they can do things they never knew they can do, and it makes our movies better.
But when he looks around the stage, he doesn't see the stage, he sees the world of Pandora. And all the time we take the initial performance, the reference cameras that we shot of the actors and carry that all the way through the pipeline to make sure that when you see it on the big screen, it's Kate's performance. It's Zoe's performance. It's Sigourney's performance.
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