james cameron has intensified the promotional campaign ahead of the imminent premiere of ‘Avatar 2’ this coming December 16. He recently acknowledged that he is afraid that it will fail and is prepared to close the saga with the third installment if necessary and now he has revealed in Total Film that he threw away a very advanced idea for the sequel before focusing on ‘ The meaning of water’.
never fit in
The filmmaker notes that “I was working with a writing team and we had a lot of ideas. We tried to put them all in one box but it just never quite fit, so at one point I said, “I’m going to write it down and see if it’s a movie.” I did, I think it was about 130 pages and I thought it was a great story“. Nevertheless, something was missing and that was what led to leaving it aside:
It was missing one of those critical elements of sequels, which is that it didn’t delve far enough into the unexpected. It also didn’t quite fit the rules of ‘Avatar’, which is connecting with the dream world, which has a spiritual component that we can’t quantify in words. It met all the other requirements, but not that one.
For this reason, he decided to start from scratch, recovering the elements that he could reuse both for ‘The Sense of Water’ and for Avatar 3. In fact, recycling has reached such an extent that the rest of the material will end up coming to light in another way:
There’s some great stuff in it. I mean, you have the Na’vi fighting with bows and arrows in zero gravity. I want to see that movie. But the general objectives of the story and the theme that I had in mind were not achieved. So we’re turning it into a Dark Horse graphic novel. You will be able to see that in-between battle that took place between movie one and movie two.
Come on, he threw it in the trash… and then quickly retrieved it and got everything he could out of it. We can’t blame him either, that ‘Avatar’ is the number 1 movie on the list of highest-grossing movies in history and it was always more rewarding for him to make as much money as he could with the sequels than just tossing aside. something I had worked so hard on.