Disney has announced that it will be releasing the “Avatar: The Deep Dive – A Special Edition of 20/20” on Disney+ in Australia and New Zealand on Friday, 13th January 2023.
This new primetime special edition of “20/20” features exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the powerhouse film franchise through the eyes of legendary director James Cameron. In a revealing interview with ABC News contributor Chris Connelly, Cameron recounted the world’s reaction to the first-of-its-kind film “Avatar” more than a decade ago, his challenges making the highly anticipated sequel, “Avatar: Way of the Water,” and his plans for three additional instalments.
The one-hour special also includes interviews with stars Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Sam Worthington and Stephen Lang, who describe their experiences working with Cameron and the signature motion-capture technology. Weaver, who is returning as a new adolescent character, explains how it felt to play one of the youngest characters in the sequel and how she tapped into her own childhood for the role. Academy Award® winner Kate Winslet talks about her long-awaited reunion with the director and why she was eager to join the project, playing one of the leaders of an undersea Pandora clan. In rare behind-the-scenes footage, the cast is seen undergoing months of intensive free-diving training with renowned free-diving expert Kirk Krack to give full underwater performances.
The program also introduces the next generation of actors joining the “Avatar” world, including Jamie Flatters, Bailey Bass, Jack Champion and Trinity Bliss, who open up about joining the legendary franchise. Additional interviews include producer Jon Landau, casting director Margery Simkin and more.
“Avatar: The Deep Dive, A Special Edition of 20/20” has already been released on ABC and Hulu in the United States.
Avatar: The Deep Dive, A Special Edition of 20/20” is produced by ABC News. Matt Lombardi is the executive producer. Janice Johnston is the senior executive producer of 20/20.
I was just a kid back in 1990 when I first saw a James Cameron film. My mother and my 10 years older sister rented The Terminator on VHS and were watching it late night one day, and I secretly watched the film from behind them biting my fingers in terror. The fact that two adult women were watching and enjoying a science fiction film, gives you an idea how universal James Cameron's storytelling is and how it transcends any genre.
About a year later, just about every magazine for months was featuring heavy coverage on the upcoming Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and it was such an event that when we were finally able to secure a VHS copy when it came out on home video (there were lines to rent it), the entire family gathered to witness the spectacle. And this time the name James Cameron engraved in my head, from the stylish opening credits to media articles on him at the time. For me this guy was a magician. And I'm not talking about visuals here really. That was great, but his films felt somehow different than anyone else's. Somewhat miles above and so much more engaging and had that "something". To this day I'm a Terminator mythology geek and its avid fan who collects vintage items.
In my teenage years I got into the Alien mythology, and Aliens blew me away. I loved its epressionist look and the mood. It wasn't that I was a fan of a movie because it was a James Cameron film, I was a fan of James Cameroon because it just happened that all of my favorite films are his! The Alien mythology is still one of my top 3 favorite ones to this day
While the release of True Lies whizzed seemingly fast past me, I was sure not to miss my favorite storyteller's new film next time it came around. And missed it I couldn't even if I tried, because just about every person on Earth and more, talked about and saw the cinematic phenomenon, which had never been replicated since - Titanic. Every friend, their parent, their aunt, our teachers, clerks at the stores, everyone was talking about how it's unlike any movie ever made, and everyone had seen it. It was a jaw dropper for everyone aged 10-70. And everyone I knew watched the 1998 Oscars and spoke about it for weeks after. I went to the theater to see it with my Mom who also didn't want to miss it. And look, I was always and still am a science fiction guy, I love the other worlds, the designs, all that, and yet even then and to this day I find this period piece drama to be the most engaging, heart pumping and emotionally wrecking film ever made. Ever since I saw it in the very early 1998, there was no movie that ever came remotely close to Titanic. It wasn't a film, it was an experience. And it was so emotionally draining that I haven't seen it again until over a decade later. When the movie ended when I was rewatching it in my 20's , I realized I've been holding my breath for who knows how long and I was clutching the handles of my chair and was half standing. The movie again wowed me so much it reignited my passion for the movies which I had lost for a long time. It reminded it that movies can be truly magical. After that rewatch, I decided to to start JamesCameronOnline.com as a home for fans of all of Jim's films
Since Jim was doing Ocean exploration and documentaries I assumed he quit making films and became a full time explorer, and I was fine with that because hey, ending up on such a high note that Titanic was not bad to say the least
Then I started reading rumors that he was actually working on a new film called Avatar and funnily enough, I was actually not very happy with the timing of it because I didn't want people to think the JamesCameronOnline website was made to ride the waves of the film's hype, plus I was afraid that Jim won't be able to match the grandeur of Titanic.
At the time Avatar premiered, I was living on a different continent in a different country (United States) and took all the family I had here at the time, my older sister and her teenage kids to see it, so we could all witness and contribute to the history in the making. Avatar was a grand film that brought color and wonder to the films at the time when the opposite dominated it (waves of desaturated, depressing movies flood the theaters, created by the fad from The Dark Knight's success). Interestingly enough, while the internet boiled with negativity toward the film (and quite frankly I never understood its criticism - Avatar was an epic adventure story for generations, while its detractors attacked it for not being a psychological thriller), everyone I had contact with who saw the movie loved it. My coworkers at the time, neighbors. It all just tells you that its the minority that has the loudest voice on the internet - I have never met, ever, personally, anyone who either rates a film online or voices his opinion in a comment or a forum. And nowadays even I don't for few reasons.
And now, finally, a new James Cameron epic is hitting the theaters. Now I'm nearing my 40s, have wife and three terrific kids, so the timing of the movie could not be any more perfect as it's focus is a family and being a parent. I went with my wife on Thursday Dec 15th and expected nothing less than an experience I would never forget. At the same time, it was the first time ever in my life when I managed to avoid any spoilers.
Avatar: The Way of Water is what the magic of movies is all about - it takes you on a journey, and Im not talking about just visually, which everyone is gushing about, but most importantly emotionally. Without spoiling anything, the way the villain is back, a new shade to him, makes him quite an interesting what it appears to be an arch villain of the series. Man, you just hate this guy with passion. But even more so, I think more than I despised him and his cruelty, I think the worst villain of the film that I was just appalled with was the Tulkun hunter. And the scary thing is, in a way that person is real, because there are people who mercilessly murder wales for the profit and treat is as business as usual.
The cast of children are fantastic, as a father myself I thought they were nothing short of great. And kudos to Sigourney who played a teenager perfectly
While of course I'll pre-order my 3D bluray of Avatar The Way of Water as soon as it comes out, there are two scenes that I don't think I can watch again as they rip your heart apart and steal all the tears your body stores. But it was during the happy scenes, perhaps when Lo'ak is swimming with Payakan, that I thought to myself, this is what Disney used to be, this is what the magic of movies is all about, and I think only a very cynical, jaded, empty inside person could not at least appreciate the movie on the emotional level.
Avatar The Way of Water warms your heart, breaks it, pumps your adrenaline and leaves you in awe. Thank you Jim
James Cameron and his latest masterpiece Avatar:The Way of Water had been nominated for Golden Globes. Way to go! Avatar The Way of Water opens this Friday December 16
Since Avatar's release in 2009, the number of books focused on James Cameron grew. Till now, we had two biographies, one of which was authorized, best interviews compilation book, and the Art book. And there's even more around the world. Out now is a new, illustrated coffetable book showcasing Jim Cameron's films.
Now, if you thought that when you have all the aformentioned books, the new one, James Cameron: A Retrospective, wouldn't provide anything new, you're wrong. There's stuff about Jim growing up, and even about each of his films that even I didn't know about, and I think it's in great deal thanks to the new interviews conducted by the author Ian Nathan. Jim Cameron is very open and very candid nowadays, so he doesn't hold anything back. So even if you're a lifelong diehard fan of Jim's work and you think you've read it all, there are still new and interesting bits in the book that hasn't been written or said before. Also, while now it seems like a no brainer, there hasn't really been an illustrated coffetable book on James Cameron's films. It's crazy when you think about it. We're talking about the director, whose nearly every film is either a record shattering milestone, or an international pop culture icon. A track record no director has or ever had.
Sure, there has been fantastic books written about almost every one of his individual films - be it Ian Nathan's Terminator Vault, the late J.W. Rinzler's Making of Aliens, or Jodie Duncan's Making of Avatar to name just a few, but there hasn't been a book that gathered all of his films in one place in a beautiful, very well illustrated hardcover volume. And if you aren't a Cameronite who has been reading everything possible on his work for years or decades, and you don't own these books, then Retrospective is a must if you like Jim's movies and want to know more about him and each of his films
Great new illustrated book James Cameron: A Restrospective is out now. Authored by the author of Terminator Vault, it’s looking to be quite a treat. Review coming soon
After James Cameron’sAvatar came out in 2009 and made $2.7 billion, the director found the deepest point that exists in all of earth’s oceans and, in time, he dove to it. When Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a couple of hundred miles off the southwest coast of Guam, in March 2012, he became the first person in history to descend the 6.8-mile distance solo, and one of only a few people to ever go that deep. Since then, others have followed—most prominently, a private-equity titan and former Naval Reserve intelligence officer turned explorer named Victor Vescovo—but Cameron is adamant that none have surpassed him. Vescovo, Cameron told me, “claimed he went deeper, but you can’t. So he’s basically just making shit up.”
As people sometimes do in response to Cameron’s stories, Vescovo disagrees—“I have a different scientific perspective,” he told me, diplomatically—but even he is a fan of Cameron’s films. Like Cameron, Vescovo has made multiple dives to the wreck of the Titanic, and while returning from one of them, he emailed Cameron. “I said, ‘I watched Titanic at the Titanic.’ And he actually replied: ‘Yeah, but I made Titanic at the Titanic.’ ”
It is perhaps illustrative of Cameron’s gifts as a filmmaker that even his most determined rivals will admit that Cameron has written and directed some of the most successful films of all time. It would be fair to call him the father of the modern action movie, which he helped invent with his debut, The Terminator, and then reinvent with his second, Aliens; it would be accurate to add that he has directed two of the three top-grossing films in history, in Avatar (number one) and Titanic (number three). But he is also a scientist—a camera he helped design served as the model for one that is currently on Mars, attached to the Mars rover—and an adventurer, and not in the dilettante billionaire sense; when Cameron sets out to do something, it gets done. “The man was born with an explorer’s instincts and capacity,” Daniel Goldin, the former head of NASA, told me. Sometimes, Cameron seems like a man in search of a problem to solve, or a deadly experience to survive, but he is emphatic that there is a purpose to the challenges he takes on. “There’s plenty of dangerous things that I won’t go near because they’re dangerous, but they have a randomness factor to them,” Cameron said. “Whitewater rafting? Fuck that.”
In December, Disney will release Avatar: The Way of Water. It’s the first feature Cameron has directed in 13 years, and the first of four planned Avatar sequels. The movie, Cameron says, is about family: Many of the main characters from the first film are back, but older and with kids to take care of. “What do two characters who are warriors, who take chances and have no fear, do when they have children and they still have the epic struggle?” Cameron, a father of five, posited. “Their instinct is to be fearless and do crazy things. Jump off cliffs, dive-bomb into the middle of an enemy armada, but you’ve got kids. What does that look like in a family setting?” Among other things, Cameron said, The Way of Waterwould be a friendly but pointed rebuke to the comic book blockbusters that now war with Cameron’s films at the top of the box office lists: “I was consciously thinking to myself, Okay, all these superheroes, they never have kids. They never really have to deal with the real things that hold you down and give you feet of clay in the real world.” Sigourney Weaver, who starred in the first Avatar as a human scientist and returns for The Way of Water as a Na’vi teenager, told me that the parallels between the life of the director and the life of his characters were far from accidental: “Jim loves his family so much, and I feel that love in our film. It’s as personal a film as he’s ever made.”
The original Avatar — a brightly colored dream of a movie, set in the year 2154, about an ex-Marine falling in love with a blue, nine-foot-tall princess on a foreign moon, Pandora, which is being invaded and stripped of its natural resources—required the invention of dozens of new technologies, from the cameras Cameron shot with to the digital effects he used to transform human actors into animated creatures to the language those creatures spoke in the film. For The Way of Water, Cameron told me, he and his team started all over again. They needed new cameras that could shoot underwater and a motion-capture system that could collect separate shots from above and below water and integrate them into a unified virtual image; they needed new algorithms, new AI, to translate what Cameron shot into what you see.
Nothing would work the first time Cameron and the production tried it. Or the second. Or usually the third. One day in Wellington, New Zealand, where Cameron was finishing the film, he showed me a single effects shot, numbered 405. “That means there’s been 405 versions of this before it gets to me,” he said. Cameron has been working on the movie since 2013; it was due out years ago. In September, he still wasn’t done. The Way of Water was expensive to make—How expensive? “Very fucking,” according to Cameron, who told me he’d informed the studio that the film represented “the worst business case in movie history.” In order to be profitable, he’d said, “you have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history. That’s your threshold. That’s your break even.” But as Cameron worked late into the evening, day after day, solving the infinite problems that The Way of Water continued to present, he seemed to be enjoying himself. “I like difficult,” he told me. “I’m attracted by difficult. Difficult is a fucking magnet for me. I go straight to difficult. And I think it probably goes back to this idea that there are lots of smart, really gifted, really talented filmmakers out there that just can’t do the difficult stuff. So that gives me a tactical edge to do something nobody else has ever seen, because the really gifted people don’t fucking want to do it.”
Cameron and his fifth wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, live year-round in New Zealand, where they have owned a 5,000-acre farm east of Wellington since 2011—ocean on one side, lake on the other, mountains in the distance. They grow hemp and organic vegetables. “I’ve never really checked this out,” Cameron said, “but I’m told we’re the biggest supplier of organic brassicas”—a category of plant that includes broccoli, kale, cauliflower—“in New Zealand, which is a niche of a niche, granted.” For a while, Cameron attempted an experimental agricultural project, taking 25 acres of trees and intercropping between them, producing “143 different species of fruit, different apples, and pears, and berries.” But that proved to not be viable, commercially. So he thought: maybe he’d just open the land to the public. Civilians could just wander in and eat, like Eden. “We could probably feed a thousand people out of that forest,” he told me. But then he realized there was also a flaw in that plan; his food forest, far from the nearest city, was nowhere close to the people it was meant to feed. “You learn as you go,” he said, shrugging.
“Avatar: The Way of Water” is set to run approximately three hours and 10 minutes, nearly 30 minutes longer than the already-long original “Avatar” in 2009.James CamerontoldTotal Film magazinethat his “Avatar” sequel runs so much longer because there is an increased focus on “relationship and emotion” compared to the first movie.
“The goal is to tell an extremely compelling story on an emotional basis,” Cameron said. “I would say the emphasis in the new film is more on character, more on story, more on relationships, more on emotion. We didn’t spend as much time on relationship and emotion in the first film as we do in the second film, and it’s a longer film, because there’s more characters to service. There’s more story to service.”
Not only are protagonists Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) returning in the sequel, but the two characters also now have children (one of which is played by Sigourney Weaver) that are main characters.
“People say, ‘Oh my God, a family story from Disney? Just what we want…’ This isn’t that kind of family story,” Cameron added. “This is a family story like how ‘The Sopranos’ is a family story.”
In an interview with Empire magazine over the summer, Cameron confirmed “Avatar: The Way of Water” was “currently coming in at around three hours” and told moviegoers he was not interested in hearing their complaints.
“I don’t want anybody whining about length when they sit and binge-watch [television] for eight hours,” Cameron said. “I can almost write this part of the review. ‘The agonizingly long three-hour movie…’ It’s like, give me a fucking break. I’ve watched my kids sit and do five one-hour episodes in a row. Here’s the big social paradigm shift that has to happen: it’s okay to get up and go pee.”
“Avatar: The Way of Water” opens in theaters nationwide Dec. 16.
Avatar: The Way of Water is fast approaching, and thanks to Total Film, we have a new look at the breathtaking world of Pandora.
Say what you will about Avatar's plot, but those 3D visuals looked insane in 2009, so we can only begin to imagine how much this sequel will push the boundaries.
We're sure the publication will reveal new details about the movie next week, but don't expect anything too major as Disney and 20th Century Studios are clearly looking to keep The Way of Water's biggest surprises under wraps. That's no bad thing, of course, and should only serve to make the experience of sitting down to watch it in theaters even more special.
Disney has also released a handful of new stills from the Avatar follow-up, and you can check those out below along with Total Film's regular and subscriber-exclusive covers.
Avatar: The Way of Water is fast approaching, and thanks to Total Film, we have a new look at the breathtaking world of Pandora.
Say what you will about Avatar's plot, but those 3D visuals looked insane in 2009, so we can only begin to imagine how much this sequel will push the boundaries.
We're sure the publication will reveal new details about the movie next week, but don't expect anything too major as Disney and 20th Century Studios are clearly looking to keep The Way of Water's biggest surprises under wraps. That's no bad thing, of course, and should only serve to make the experience of sitting down to watch it in theaters even more special.
Disney has also released a handful of new stills from the Avatar follow-up, and you can check those out below along with Total Film's regular and subscriber-exclusive covers.
Lots of great Avatar books are coming up, as some of you may already know. When the first film came out, there were a few books, and good ones too, and it looks like this time will have some nice selection too
The Art of Avatar The Way Of Water will be released on December 16 as well, and is also available on preorder
Packed with hundreds of stunning images and written in collaboration with the filmmakers themselves, uncover the incredible creative and technical skill that went into the making of Avatar: The Way of Water.
Featuring stunning concept art and intricate character, creature, and costume designs, uncover the details of Pandora in striking detail.
Art of Avatar: The Way of Water is produced in collaboration with James Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, and Twentieth Century Film.
With a foreword by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
Also recently announced, Avatar: Visual Dictionary is now available on Amazon for pre-order, and will be released on December 16
Dive into the depths of Avatar: The Way of Water with this definitive guide.
Created in close collaboration with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment and written by experts who worked on the film, this authoritative book is packed with stunning exclusive details. This must-have visual guide showcases the characters, creatures, vehicles, weapons, and locations from the latest adventure in Pandora.
Meet the next generation of Jake Sully and Neytiri’s family, including the mysterious Kiri and the heroic Neteyam, and their brave new allies among the Metkayina clan. Discover the majestic tulkun, speedy skimwings,and the other fauna and flora of Pandora’s oceans. Examine the latest fearsome RDA vehicles and the specialist recom troops under Colonel Quaritch’s command. Uncover the inner workings of Bridehead City and the sacred Cove of the Ancestors.
With a foreword by Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: The Way of Water: The Visual Dictionary is the perfect gift for Avatar fans of all ages.
Also, you might have noticed plenty of McFarlane figures and set pieces already around in stores, and some coming up November 21, like this great AMP suit figure
The first teaser trailer for James Cameron’s sequel Avatar: The Way of Water rode a huge wave of interest when debuting online early Monday after playing exclusively in cinemas over the weekend.
The teaser finished its first 24-hour online window with 148.6 million views, including 23 million from China alone, according to Disney and 20th Century.
That’s ahead of all recent Star Wars films, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Like Avatar 2, the teaser trailer for that film also played exclusively in theaters first.
Avatar 2’s views on YouTube and across social media don’t include the millions of people watching the teaser on the big screen before Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which opened to an enormous $187 million domestically and nearly $450 million overseas.
In terms of other comps for teasers, Universal’s F9: The Fast Saga nabbed 202.7 million online views in its initial 24 hours; Black Widow, 116.8 million; Incredibles 2, 113.1 million; and Rise of Skywalker, 112.4 million.
Cameron’s sequel, which hits theaters Dec. 16, centers on returning Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, along with Na’vi Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldaña, and their family, and the lengths they go to keep each other safe.
Returning stars also include Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine and Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch, and big-name newcomers include Vin Diesel and Cameron’s Titanic star Kate Winslet.
Released in 2009, Cameron’s Avatar is the top-grossing film of all-time at the worldwide box office with $2.84 billion, not adjusted for inflation. The original Avatar will be rereleased in cinemas on Sept. 23, with restored picture and sound.
JamesCameronOnline.com is finally getting a facelift. The site was created a decade and a half ago in a way that did not predict the dominance of smart phones, so it isn't easy to readjust the entire site, but we're working on it, and the visual presentation is already getting a much cleaner, and nicer look on many pages.
The full adjustment for mobile devices will take some time, but most of the pages already are better adjusted and the home page should be just about there. We hope you like it
Also, a couple of other announcements
We're also often asked if there are more interviews/Q&As with cast or crew from Jim's movies, and will be resuming interviews in the near future as well.
As far as mail, we're getting a mass, mass of e-mails and they are not all read because most of them invalidate the terms of our mailing rule, and once we see that the email is doing what is asked not to do on our contact page, we don't read it any further.
No request for autographs, and especially no scripts or story ideas. We are not the department of that, and stories should be pitched through an authorized agent to a desired production company which we are not. Again, once our staff can spot that the message is a request for autograph, contact info for Jim Cameron or a pitch, it is not read, so be clear in the subject.
And we do not and cannot give out James Cameron's contact info under any circumstances. There are other, professional means for it, and this is not a place for it, nor are we authorized to do so.
Another announcement is regarding the disappearance of the Discussion Forum. The discussion forum does not exist anymore to our regret. It was hosted by a third party, which switched ownership at some point and became a breed of cheap advertisement and technical issues, and unfortunately due to their technical issues we were not able to save the data of the usernames and all the discussions and debates that we fans had with each other for all these years. But also, with reddit, the frequency of the forums everywhere dropped sharply as well some time ago.
Lastly, we want to thank all those readers and fans of our site who are with us for a long time, and all those forum members that discussed all the nuances, news and discoveries on each film. JamesCameronOnline.com is made by the fans, for the fans, who share the passion for Jim's films
Check out the teaser trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water, the upcoming movie starring Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Kate Winslet. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure. Avatar: The Way of Water, directed by James Cameron, opens in theaters on December 16, 2022.
From IGN
See the first trailer for the Avatar: The Way of Water HERE
After months, nay years, of suspense, Disney on Wednesday unveiled the first trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar sequel, also giving the movie an official title. Now known as Avatar: The Way of Water, the 20th Century Studios sci-fi adventure releases overseas starting December 14 and heads to North America on December 16.
Producer Jon Landau came in from New Zealand to make the Disney presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
“One of the strengths of Jim Cameron’s scripts is they are always universal and relatable themes that he weaves into them,” the Oscar-winning producer said.
“At the center of each of the four sequels will be the Sully family. Each story will be a stand-alone and each will come to its own conclusion,” he added. There will be a “fulfilling resolution to each film, but when looked at as a whole the journey across all four will create a larger epic saga.”
“The journey across all four movies will create a connected saga,” said Landau. “To achieve our goals, we need a strong partnership with you and the studio … an end-to-end community.”
Cameron beamed in from Wellington, NZ where he’s shooting, expressing sympathy for exhibition about the industry’s hardships during the pandemic.
He told exhibition, “I just want you to hear it from me: Jon and I are here to work with you,” he said. “The best way is by delivering content that is a must-see experience at the cinema.”
CinemaCon Photos: Stars And Sneak Peeks Including Olivia Wilde, Dwayne Johnson, ‘Avatar’ And More
The Oscar-winning filmmaker said he was “hard at work putting the final touches on the film.” He added that the new films are “pushing limits even farther with high frame rate, higher resolution 3D and greater reality in our visual effects. I wanted our return to Pandora to be something really special. Every shot is designed for the biggest screen, highest resolution and most immersive 3D available. I think we pulled it off.”
The trailer will run exclusively in cinemas with Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse pf Madness, which rolls out next week — beginning May 4 internationally and May 6 domestically. That drew applause in the room. The Avatar 2 trailer will then go online a week later.
The logline on the movie: Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and the army of the Na’vi race to protect their planet.
What’s in the trailer?
As Cameron always promised, Avatar 2 takes place in and around the ocean. Sully and Neytiri have children. “Wherever we go,” says Sully, “I know one thing: this family is our fortress.” The sequel looks even more jaw-dropping in its deep-blue visuals than the 2009 film. All new creatures: We see the Na’vi on flying fish bird creatures, communing with a whale, and yet somehow divided despite their affinity with nature. The alien people are split, battling against each other in a guns vs. arrows fight. It’s truly a whole new world, upping the stakes of the previous three-time Oscar-winning 2009 original.
It was also revealed that Disney will rerelease the original Avatar on September 23 around the globe with remastered audio and sound. That film is the highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide at $2.8 billion, regaining that title after overtaking Avengers: Endgame during the pandemic.
The sequel stars Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, Edie Falco, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Oona Chaplin, Jermaine Clement and more.
Delve into the majestic world of Pandora and discover the incredible wealth of creativity that led this story to become the highest-grossing film of all time and the winner of three Academy Awards.
The World of Avatar celebrates, explores, and explains the spectacular world of Pandora—its extraordinary geology, flora and fauna, and the customs and beliefs of its people, the mysterious Na’vi. The book uniquely covers key content from all aspects of the burgeoning franchise. It combines original movie stills and artwork with stunning imagery from Cirque du Soleil’s Avatar-inspired show Toruk: The First Flight; and Disney World’s Pandora—The World of Avatar.
With a foreword by Avatar star Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), and an introduction by producer Jon Landau, The World of Avatar concludes with a “sneak peek” of a new Avatar era, fuelling excitement for the long-awaited release of Avatar 2 in December 2022.
