Sam Worthington, IAmStephenLang & producer Jon Landau talk AvatarTheWayOfWater, IMAX, 3D, and future sequels. Watch or read our conversation here.
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker, James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water returns audiences to the lush moon of Pandora, where the Na’vi people reside. Now thirteen years since the events of Avatar, Jake Sully and Neytiri are the proud parents of four children, including their adopted daughter, Kiri, played by Sigourney Weaver. In the time that’s passed, they’ve worked on rebuilding and turned their focus on their family, but when the “sky people” return, the Sullys are forced to relocate.
JON LANDAU: Well, what we did, we started out with plans for the spaceship and they bought into it. No. I think that's the best compliment we could have. And I think, first of all, it starts with the performances that the cast gave us. That people have just believed those performances. And then we challenged Wētā FX.
STEPHEN LANG: I agree with that. It's the total experience. It's just completely immersive. I don't think I can improve on that word. But that's the reason. There's no experience like the IMAX experience when it comes to really encompassing the world of Pandora. So it's the way to see it. Jim views 3D as a tool to help guide the audience on where to look. Just like in 2D a filmmaker might use focus or lighting or movement, 3D is now one of those elements that Jim uses to direct the eye on the narrative storytelling.
LANG: And it's worth noting that not every film that's made demands, or is necessary, either for the IMAX experience or for the 3D experience. Whereas when Jim conceived of this very world, he conceived of it with 3D and IMAX in mind, it seems to me. And so, it's a question of the resource completely matching the product, it seems to me. WORTHINGTON: Well look, it's an extension of the first film.
I'm curious for all three of you, which shot in either Avatar movie do you think was the toughest to pull off and why?LANDAU: Look, I think you'll see in this movie, and it's not going to be a shot that you think about, there's a scene – and this is just typical of the challenge – where Spider, a human character played by Jack Champion, is lamenting who his father is.
One of the great things we did in Hawaii was, we went on perhaps the most Pandoran experience Earth can offer. We went on a night scuba dive to the bottom, 30 feet down in darkness, except for lights shining up. And then out of the abyss came these Pandoran-like creatures, giant manta rays. And they swam over us, and they swam around us, and we were able to touch them. We had trouble getting Cliff Curtis to come to the surface from that.
WORTHINGTON: Yeah. He said, "What are you doing?" I said, "We're making a movie with James Cameron. The guy who did Titanic." And he looked at Jim with the Handycam and went, "He's gone fucking downhill from there, hasn't he?"That's a great story. So I'm curious, how much of Avatar 2, 3, 4, 5 have you guys actually filmed?
LANDAU: I'm planning on finishing four and five. There's going to be an audience, we're going to finish those movies. Those are stories I think really… [to Worthington and Lang] You've read the scripts. Each movie comes to its own emotional resolution, as I said, but movie five really drives it home.I know we're here to talk about Way of Water, but I like asking about future things.
WORTHINGTON: There's a missing gap. That's basically what it was. I'm too scared to tell you what's in it, in case arrows come out of the dark from the boss, but it did fill in a lot of stuff. It filled in what happened when all the “sky people” left.
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