It creates thousands of false targets, so we’ve had to figure out how to get around that problem, which we did. Basically, whenever you add water to any problem, it just gets ten times harder. It’s a little bit like a fighter plane dumping a bunch of chaff to confuse the radar system of a missile. That moving mirror reflects all the dots and markers, and it creates a bunch of false markers. “The problem with water is not the underwater part, but the interface between the air and the water, which forms a moving mirror. “It’s never been done before” Cameron told Collider. Most challenging of all, a lot of the scenes for Avatar 2require actors to wear performance capture suits underwater – with tricky scenes shot in water tanks resulting in a lot of the production delays. As per the first film though, a large bulk of the filming will be filmed in a studio using performance capture technology courtesy of Weta Digital. Production started in August 2017 with filming taking place in Manhattan Beach, California before moving on to New Zealand. “There will be such a richness of imagery that I think people just won’t be able to imagine it in advance, but it will just seem right when they finally see it.” Going on to say that the Avatarseries will eventually represent everything he wants to say as a filmmaker, Cameron is clearly throwing everything he’s got at the new movies. “I’ve hired the best artists and technicians in the world to design these films,” Cameron told Digital Spy. The process of filming two pairs of back-to-back sequels already sounds ambitious enough, but Cameron is insisting on outdoing the technological advances of the first Avatar to make parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 look and feel like nothing else we’ve ever seen before.
It’s hardly a surprising choice for Cameron, who made The Abyssin 1989 before devoting much of his free time to deep sea exploration.īeyond that, all we really know for sure is that Avatar 2is going to be so “bitchin” it’ll make you “s**t yourself with your mouth wide open”, which is apparently how Cameron described the plot to Empire. We know that Lang will (somehow) be returning as Colonel Quaritch as the main villain in all four films, and that each chapter will likely explore a different environment on Pandora – with much of Avatar 2 taking place beneath the waves. “Basically, if you loved the first movie, you’re gonna love these movies, and if you hated it, you’re probably gonna hate these,” he told Vanity Fair, before uncannily tapping into what most of us are actually thinking: “If you loved it at the time, and you said later you hated it, you’re probably gonna love these”. Josh Friedman ( Terminator 6) was hired to write the script for Avatar 2back in 2012, but Cameron then spent years refining it himself – waiting for the delivery of the scripts all four sequels before fine tuning them alongside the visual design process. “Each movie’s story will come to its own conclusion… However, when looked at as a whole, the journey across all four movies will create an even larger connected epic saga for audiences around the world.”
The Sully family will reportedly be the main focus of all four sequels, with producer Jon Landau confirming at CineEurope that each chapter will play as a standalone film.
Set several years after the events of Avatar, the first sequel will pick up Jake and Neytiri’s story as they rule their own Na’vi clan and look after their litter of little blue children. Read about the Avatar sequels’ titles here.
“Kate and I had been looking for something to do together for 20 years, since our collaboration on Titanic, which was one of the most rewarding of my career”, Cameron told Deadline– revealing during a CineEurope presentation that the scenes he shot with Winslet required her to hold her breath underwater for a full seven minutes. Kate Winslet has also joined the cast as Ronal, a mo-cap character reporedly part of the seafearing Na’vi clan of Metkayina, marking her first time working with Cameron since Titanic. Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Matt Herald, Giovanni Ribisi and Dileep Rao have all been confirmed to reprise their roles, with Oona Chaplin joining the cast alongside seven new child actors – who got their own official photo shoot at the Avatar Disneyland ride to announce that they were signing over the next few years of their lives to Cameron. Back in 2010, James Cameron told us that “no one dies in a science fiction movie”, suggesting that Weaver and Lang’s characters might come back from the dead, but Weaver then told the Jonathan Ross show that she’s actually playing a completely different character in the sequels – thanks to the magic of mo-cap technology.