It's been no secret that James Cameron's sequel would make heavy use of pioneering underwater filming technology. This contributed to why Avatar 2 took so long to make, a necessary endeavor since Avatar: The Way of Water introduced a new Na'vi tribe, the Metkayina, who live around and in Pandora's ocean.
How long did Avatar 2 take to make? Avatar: The Way of Water took 12 years to make, with the sequel not beginning production until August 2017. In 2006, three years before the release of the first movie, Cameron said there'd be sequels if Avatar was a hit.
These delays have mainly happened for two reasons! First, James Cameron and co need more time. Years went into perfecting the CGI of the last two Avatar movies. They needed the most VFX shots as the majority of the characters involved are completely computer generated.
“Each 'Avatar' film is an exciting but epic undertaking that takes time to bring to the quality level we as filmmakers strive for and audiences have come to expect,” producer Jon Landau wrote on Twitter. “The team is hard at work and can't wait to bring audiences back to Pandora in December 2025.”
"Avatar" producer Jon Landau wrote on Twitter that the filmmakers needed more time to complete the third, fourth and fifth installments in the science-fiction series set on the fictional moon of Pandora.
It's already (95 percent) done filming …
At the time, he still had to shoot “a little bit on some of the adult characters” in live action. Producer Jon Landau told Collider this past December that they have shot “95% of Avatar 3” … as well as the entire first act of Avatar 4.
The nine hours of 'Avatar 3' footage
"The cut was, no joke, nine hours long. "Apparently, he's insisting on doing the visual effects for this cut, so that all nine hours get fully VFX'd, then he'll cut it down. "Rather than figuring out what he wants and having them just do the VFX for that. That's what I heard."
It could be an immaculate conception. There's a theory that the film director James Cameron could be hiding a vital feature of the Na'vi. According to that theory, Na'vi could reproduce asexually. Unless that theory is true, Grace was impregnated by someone.
A fifth film has been announced and is scheduled for December 19, 2031. Jon Landau has stated that part of Avatar 5 will take place on Earth, with Neytiri visiting the planet. The film's original release date was scheduled for December 22, 2028.
The Other Side of the Wind holds the record for a movie to be in production for the longest time: it was in production stage for 48 years (1970–2018).
Director James Cameron has revealed his plans for Avatar 6 and 7, following the first three sequels to his 2009 box office hit Avatar. The second film in the planned franchise, Avatar: The Way of the Water, is due this month, with a third film scheduled for release in 2024.
178 minutes min. The Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition box set is a special edition release of Avatar, comprised of 3 discs that contain 45 minutes of unfinished deleted scenes, along with a finished 16 minutes included in the film that is a flowing, cohesive version of the movie.
The title of Avatar 2 is 'Avatar: The Way of Water. ' Avatar 3 is titled 'Avatar: The Seed Bearer. ' Avatar 4 is titled 'Avatar: The Tulkun Rider' and Avatar 5 is titled 'Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.
Avatar 2 is believed to have a budget of $460 million, making it the most expensive movie in Hollywood history by a considerable distance. This estimate comes via Deadline, which cited its sources reporting the Avatar 2 budget to be around $460 million before more than $100 million on marketing.
“Four forthcoming Avatar films, expanding the vibrant world of Pandora, will release on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning in 2021,” Disney says. We're getting the sequel on December 17, 2021; Avatar 3 on December 22, 2023; Avatar 4 on December 19, 2025; and Avatar 5 on December 17, 2027.
Like the original “Avatar,” the follow-up's success is attributed to its generation-spanning appeal as well as the incentive to watch the film in premium and 3D formats.
James Cameron has implied that both Jake and Neytiri will survive to Avatar 5, though whether or not they will live through its finale is unclear. James Cameron has said that Miles Quaritch will be in all the sequels. Avatar 5 will have its own narrator, which will neither be Jake nor Lo'ak.
Specifically, he said that he has five or six more films in him — three of which will likely be Avatar movies. The 68-year old director also revealed that he has Avatar 6 and 7 mapped out already, adding that he'd be "89 by then."
No, you don't HAVE to watch Avatar, to understand the story of Avatar: The Way of Water, as the sequel is enough of a soft-reboot of the franchise for new viewers to jump in without too much trouble. However, Avatar 2 doesn't necessarily invest extensive time and effort recapping the first movie.
Na'vi are monogamous creatures who mate for life and the process of their reproduction is similar to Terran mammals; however, though they nurse their young and possess belly buttons where they were once connected to an umbilical cord, the Na'vi are non-placental, thus the details of their internal biology and gestation ...
Augustine's colleague Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) was the father and Grace conceived Kiri before the end of Avatar before somehow giving birth in her Avatar body. However, the more interesting theory is that Kiri is literally the child of Eywa due to some sort of immaculate conception.
The seizure is believed to have been caused by frontal lobe epilepsy which could also cause the other symptoms Kiri has been having, including visions and the belief that she's hearing Eywa. However, the Metkayina clan believe it's down to something more spiritual and is a result of Kiri's connection to Eywa.
The primary reason for Avatar's 15-year development is that the technology of the late 1990s simply wasn't good enough to cope with the demands of Cameron's concept.
James Cameron told Total Film magazine that 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.