Shane Salerno helped write the new 'Avatar' sequels, but 'The Way of Water's' Oscar best picture nod is not the biggest thing that's happened to him this year.
A series of wildly popular anti-Trump videos are the latest milestone in Shane Salerno and Don Winslow’s unlikely but highly influential friendship.
When Landau offered him the job, Salerno says, he screamed. He thought he had hit the mute button on his phone but alas, he had not. “After I screamed I heard Jon say, ‘Shane, I’m still here.’ Very embarrassing.” But when the creators gathered, Cameron’s first directive was not about where the story would go but where it began. “We thought we’d come in and start pitching ideas. Jim said, ‘We’re going to do an autopsy on “Avatar” to figure out why it was so successful.’”T.J. Newman wrote “Falling,” a thriller set aboard a flight, during red-eyes while working as a flight attendant. Then came the book and movie deals.
Cameron was clearly more than a writer when he came in one day and announced that the three films they thought they were working on would have to be four. “I said, ‘Don’t you have to check with someone on that?’” Salerno says. “And he looked at me and said, ‘No.’”
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