The highest grossing film of all time – Avatar has spawned a sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. James Cameron blew people’s minds in 2009 when he displayed his technical might. There is hardly a visionary like Cameron working in the film industry, Nolan comes very close because of his use of practical effects. Cameron had made no film after Avatar took over the world and became the highest grossing film of all time beating another Cameron film- Titanic. The first Avatar packed in a lot of heart and emotion with its insane, never seen before visuals. The screenplay of the film while bloated was supremely heartfelt. It has been a lot of time since we heard from Pandora. Cameron has an annoying habit of reinventing cinema or creating some new technology every time he touches a camera.
I was absolutely taken aback by the first Avatar, not by the effects, I mean I was but I expected that but along with the effects the way Cameron had weaved in an extremely emotional and heartfelt story of Pandora and its people was brilliant. Also, the protagonist of a film like Avatar has a threat of becoming one dimensional or stereotypical but Cameron managed to make him unique and fresh. Really, Avatar was a cinematic achievement like no other and so when Cameron spawned a sequel for it I was ready to be blown away once again. After 13 years years, finally I got to see the continuation of Pandora’s story and it was an experience like no other but it seems even after having a runtime of over 3 hours, the sequel had more to cover.
Avatar: The Way of Water had too much story for one film!
Despite having one of the longest runtimes of the year, Avatar: The Way of Water did feel incomplete as many storylines in the sequel didn’t get a necessary resolution. Many questions were left unanswered, many characters were unexplored, and overall despite packing in so much we still felt like there is so much more that we have to learn about Pandora. If you feel the same then you’re not wrong as in a recent interview, screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver who penned down James Cameron’s sequel revealed to Variety that the sequel has to be split into two movies due to the amount of stories that Cameron has to tell.
The screenwriters said, “Carrying this burden was always an issue in terms of getting the first act of that first movie moving, and there was just an enormous amount of material in there. So somewhere after we had started writing, [Cameron] called us up and he said, ‘Look, we’ve got too much material. We’re going to split it into two movies.’”Avatar 2 is projected to cross over $1 Billion mark in the New Year week while it will reach $800 Million till Christmas. It is unclear how by much will this China issue cost Avatar 2’s earnings.
Avatar 2 has to keep up with its insane budget and high expectations. James Cameron has mentioned many times that he’d only make the remaining Avatar movies if the Way of Water makes money. If we have to talk numbers then Cameron has said that the sequel has to make at least $2 Billion for the third film to happen. That is a huge number, no film has managed to get that number since Avengers: Endgame in 2019. Spider-Man: No Way Home came very close to it but still didn’t cross it. So, if the sequel plans to pass this number it has to beat everything in the middle.
Watch the Official Trailer For Avatar 2: The Way of Water on YouTube:
Avatar: The Way of Water is slated to release on 16th December 2022.
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