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Avatar: The Way of Water is finally coming to cinemas next week and like producer Jon Landau has been teasing, the sequel is bringing the emotion as well as the spectacle.
If everything goes to plan, the sequel is just the first of four movies that tell the story of the Sully family following the events of the first movie. And just because there’s more movies coming, don’t expect there not to be some surprises.
Talking to Digital Spy, James Cameron explained the importance of delivering the unexpected with our return to Pandora, including some genuine danger for our heroes.
“I follow the kids’ story a lot more than the promotional materials would let you believe. But it works out, right? Because it all comes back to the parents and the whole family at the end. And you see them all in action, trying to save each other,” he noted.
“That’s by design. We want to surprise. We want to engage you, and then we want to surprise you so that you don’t know what’s going to happen next. So that, OK, maybe somebody could die. Maybe there are real stakes here.
“I don’t want to attack superhero movies, I love superhero movies, but you know they’re not going to kill off Spider-Man. Or if they do, it’s going to be some multiverse bullshit, to go back through time and fix it all.
“You know, there’s never real stakes there. It’s OK. It’s great. I love those films. But I wanted real stakes. I wanted mortality to be real.”
As we all know, it’s been a long wait to find out what our return to Pandora will contain, surprises and all. However, it seems it was all to ensure that when it came to making the sequel, Cameron could achieve what he wanted visually.
“There’s kind of a story around that we waited for the technology from the time I wrote Avatar in ’95 to the time we started on it in ’05 – and that’s partially true,” he recalled.
“But in this particular case, from the moment we decided to actually make a sequel, which was in 2012, we went down a path of technical development, knowing very specifically what we needed to do to improve our pipeline, and to solve a lot of technical problems.
“We just started dumping money into that in parallel with all the design work and the writing challenges and everything. And then it all came together in 2017 in September when we started the actual production.”
Not long left to find out whether it was all worth the wait, but the first reactions to the sequel certainly seem to suggest it has been.
Avatar: The Way of Water is released in cinemas on December 16.
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