James Cameronwill be forced to miss the Hollywood premiere ofAvatar: The Way of Waterin Los Angeles due to testing positive for Covid-19. According to a report byVariety, the director is said to be feeling well and is asymptomatic, but due to protocol any imminent promotion for what is set to be one of the biggest movies of the year will be done virtually. Although Cameron may not be in attendance, there will still be plenty of star power available at the Hollywood and Highland complex with the likes of Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Kate Winslet all expected to appear.
Of course,Avatar: The Way of Waterreceived its world premiere in London last week, and James Cameron was able to attend that along with the stars of his movie. The film is ready to his theaters later this week, where it isexpected to pull in between $150-180 million on its domestic openingweekend and could also add a large chunk to its gross from its China release along with other international territories.
James Cameron’sAvatarfranchise is really only beginning despite having been around for thirteen years. Any initial fears that the series of sequels meticulously planned by Cameron may have come too late have been dispelled he closer theAvatar: The Way of Waterhas come to release.Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverhas been dominating the box office for the last several weeks, butAvatar: The Way of Waterwill bring the biggest challenge to the Marvel movie’s success as one of the biggest films of the year.
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Avatar: The Way of Water Is The Result of James Cameron’s Extensive Notes
There are certain writers who can just churn out a script without any preparation whatsoever, but James Cameron is not one of those people. In a recent interview, producer Jon Landau revealed thatCameron’s notes for hisAvatarsequelscame to over 1000 pages which had to be collated and refined into the several stories that he wants to tell. Landau said:
“You know, we wanted to do it again before the first Avatar ever came out. We identified that there was more that we wanted to tell, but we needed a decompression period after the release of the movie. Also Jim had other ambitions, including going to the Mariana Trench, so it was after the 3D premiere of Titanic [in 2012] that Jim really sat down to put pen to paper on the ideas that he had for where he wanted to go. [Early on] Jim had identified that he wanted to make three movies, and felt that he had a plethora of directions to go in those. Then, when he started working with teams of writers to take his 1,000-plus pages of notes and coalesce them into stories, we realized we couldn’t get it down to three movies, that there were really four unique stories to tell.”
