Avatar 2
Director James Cameron is not intimidated by long films, as he demonstrated with the first Avatar, since 2009, duration 162 minutes. now comes Avatar: The shape of waterand already announced it will last three hours, or 180 minutes. As the director said at the CinemaCon convention in April, the first will be on December 15th in Argentina.
In a report for Empire magazine, Cameron talked about the subject: “I don’t want to hear anyone complain about the length of the film, when they usually spend eight hours watching continuous episodes of any series.”
James Cameron, in his presentation at CinemaCon 2022 in Las Vegas, in April of this year. Photo: AFP
And he went on to protest: “I can already imagine critics saying that such a long film is agony. Come on! I have seen my own children sitting and watching five chapters in a row, an hour each. You just have to get used to the idea. to see people get up from the living room to go to the bathroom and immediately come back.
Nor is it a question of contradicting the director and telling him that it is exaggerated, since the facts have proved him right: Avatar grossed more than $ 2.8 billion and became the highest-grossing film in the history of the past decade, when it was dethroned by Avengers: End of the gamealthough a relaunch in China brought it back to the top spot last year.
the first trailer
One of the first images of “Avatar 2”
In May the first trailer of Avatar: The shape of water. It premiered in theaters on Thursday 5th, accompanying the launch of Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness. While not much is known about the film’s plot, it is known to be set more than a decade after the events that occurred in the first film.
The plot tells the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their children) and the danger they face and “the efforts they make to stay safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure,” according to one. official statement.
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