James Cameron Refused To Do Avatar 2 Until He Figured Out ‘Why The First Worked So Well’: ‘We Need To Crack The Code’

James Cameron, director of Avatar, has been working on the sequel to the original picture for 13 years, and he wanted to make sure he understood why the first film was so successful. Before the release of Avatar 2Cameron recently opened up about what it feels like to release the sequel to the most successful movie of all time.

In 2009, the original Avatar grossed around $3 billion, and the studio sought to capitalize on that excitement by releasing a sequel as quickly as possible. Cameron insisted on not rushing the sequel, but admitted that waiting 13 years after the premiere of the first movie bothered him.

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What made the original Avatar so successful?

Cameron told The Times UK: “When I sat down with my writers to start Avatar 2, I said we can’t do the next one until we understand why the first one worked so well. We need to crack the code of what happened.

He went on to say that Avatar mastered a type of successful trifecta:

“Well, all movies work on different levels. The first is the surface, which is character, problem and resolution. The second is thematic. What is the film trying to say? But Avatar also works on a third level, the subconscious.

According james cameron, the sci-fi fantasy image starring Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington captivated the subconscious of the world, which is why it was so successful. And why the film continues to perform so well. Avatar was re-released as a 4K high dynamic range remaster on Friday, September 23, allowing viewers to view the film in both 2D and 3D theaters for a vastly improved experience.

Cameron wondered if the gap between the films was excessively long. “My personal experience is this: I did a sequel called Aliens, seven years after the first movie. It was very well received. I did a sequel called Terminator 2, seven years after the first movie. made an order of magnitude more, in revenue than the first film. he explained.

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James Cameron talks about Avatar 2

Cameron went on to say that he wrote a full script for the Avatar sequel but had to give up everything and start over.

“I was a little concerned that I had stretched the tether too much, in our modern, fast-paced world, with Avatar 2 coming 12 years later,” Cameron said. “Until we dropped the trailer and got 148 million views in 24 hours. There’s this barely seen but asked principle, which is, ‘Wow, we haven’t seen that for a long time, but I remember how cool it was back then.” Does that work in our favor? I don’t know. I guess we’ll find out.

Avatar: The Way of the Water, which cost $250 million to produce and features new special effects and underwater filmmaking technology, is expected to be one of the biggest movies of the year. Zoe Saldana reprises her role as Neytiri, while Sam Worthington plays Jake Sully and Stephen Lang plays Colonel Miles Quaritch. The film also stars Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Dileep Rao, CCH Pounder, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet.

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The following, Avatar: The Way of the Wateris set to hit theaters on December 16 this year, followed by the third Avatar in December 2024 and the fourth and fifth two years later.

Source: Newsweek