Avatar: The Way of Water
James Cameron will set about chief photography onAvatar 2next Monday , September 25th , as was confirmed at the specialTerminatorevent that was held in Los Angeles on Tuesday night , September 19th . Back in June , Cameron ’s longtime coproducer and Lightstorm Entertainment drumhead Jon Landau say thatfilming on theAvatarsequels(all four of them , back - to - back ) would indeed begin in the last week of September of this year . The latest update on the undertaking confirm that it is presently be active along right on - schedule , for the metre being .
The originalAvatarwas , of course of instruction , a plot - change success for the industry in 2009 , going on to gross $ 2.79 billion worldwide in theaters , net three Academy Awards , and usher in a wave of tentpoles that were either filmed natively in 3D or converted to the data format in station - output . Much has commute in the movie landscape painting since then ( the 3D craze has died down , comical leger cinematic universes and theStar Warsfranchise currently dominate the boxwood office on an one-year basis ) , but the same take true for Cameron ’s design for theAvatarfranchise . The theme parking area landPandora : The World of Avataris now up and play at Walt Disney World in Florida , while Cameron ’s original musical theme to shoot twoAvatarsequels back - to - back has now expanded to filmingfourAvatarsequels back - to - back .
Given the bluff number of time that film onAvatar 2(and its sequels ) has already been delayed , there was lawful rationality to wonder if Cameron would be able-bodied to make his antecedently - set September start date this prison term around , even now that theAvatarsequels have official waiver datesset in Edward Durell Stone . While attending said specialTerminatorevent , during which Cameron also revealed thatLinda Hamilton is returning to play Sarah Connorin theTerminatorfranchise ’s upcoming sixth installment , THR ’s Borys Kit was capable to confirm that shoot onAvatar 2will start out as previously - announced , next Monday ( at the meter of writing this ) .
Cameron and hisAvatarsequels form - which includes returning players Sam Worthington ( Jake Sully ) , Zoe Saldana ( Neytiri ) , Sigourney Weaver ( Grace Augustine ) andStephen Lang ( Miles Quaritch)along with enfranchisement starter like Oona Chaplin ( Taboo ) and Cliff Curtis ( Fear the Walking Dead ) - have already begun running throughthe motions on the photographic film ' " virtual " sets , ahead of the start of cinematography . Since virtually all of the Pandora scenery in these subsequence will be institute to life through digital imagery crafted by WETA Digital , Cameron has been claim extra time to get a feel for how to fire up and position his cast on - set , before rolling television camera .
This further pass to show just how punctilious Cameron is as a filmmaker , from both a technological perspective and a storytelling one - having spent the last several years fine - tuning theAvatarsequels ' scripts with a team of four other screenwriters ( including , Terminator : The Sarah Connor ChroniclesTV show creator Josh Friedman ) . It remain to be hear if even Cameron can fulfill as ambitious a goal as the one that he has set for himself here , but in the interim everyone else can now take solace in knowing that they no longer have to keep on wondering if theseAvatarsequels are ever really going to go into full - vaunt production .
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Source : THR
