Four New LEGO 'Avatar' Sets Revealed at San Diego Comic-Con". Hypebeast. July 22, 2022. Archived from the original on October 26, 2022 . Retrieved October 29, 2022. Kenigsberg, Ben (January 2, 2023). " 'Avatar' and the Headache of High Frame Rate Filmmaking". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023 . Retrieved January 8, 2023. The eponymous concept of the avatar gave the first film its speculative sci-fi USP, and also served to imbue its wide-eyed army puke protagonist – Sam Worthington’s Jake Sully – with a workable if hardly earth-shattering dramatic dilemma. This aspect is swept aside as ground already covered in the new one, which instead goes for a straight-up Na’vi-vs-“Sky People” (humans) battle for the future. Sully himself is less of a central presence, as is his sultry wife Neytiri as played by Zoe Saldana. The baton has been passed along to their teenage brood, which comprises a quartet of oikish, hot-headed boys and sensitive, maternal girls.

The Way of Water is the first of four planned sequels to Avatar. Avatar 3 started filming simultaneously with this film in New Zealand on September 25, 2017. Cast members from previous films, including Worthington, Saldaña, Lang, Weaver, Pounder, Winslet, Curtis, Ribisi, Moore, Rao, Gerald, Dalton, Bliss, Champion, Bass, and Geljo, have all been announced to return while Oona Chaplin, Michelle Yeoh, and David Thewlis will be playing new characters. [269] [270] [271] [272] a b D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 14, 2016). "20th Century Fox CinemaCon: 'Avatar' Sequels, 'Deadpool 2', 'Greatest Showman On Earth' Updates, Vanilla Ice Raps, 'Assassin's Creed', 'Birth Of A Nation' & More". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019 . Retrieved February 19, 2020. Rao, Sonia (December 19, 2022). " 'Avatar' sequel dominates box office but falls short of expectations". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022 . Retrieved December 20, 2022.Liang, John (December 1, 2017). "Upcoming Avatar 2 Movie Cast Being Trained To Freedive". Deeperblue.com. Deeper Blue. Archived from the original on December 4, 2017 . Retrieved December 3, 2017. There are moments that are meant to be thrillingly exciting. These are easy to spot because the characters on screen shout “Woohoo!” in the same way that young Anakin shouted “Yippee!” in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace. Sadly, the comparisons with Lucas’s ill-fated space opera prequels don’t end there. Like Jar Jar Binks, the residents of Pandora appear to have been designed by a stoned sixth former while listening to Tales From Topographic Oceans, all wide-eyed Middle-earth wonder mixed with cod FernGully-style fairytale heroism. There’s also a feral human child (he speaks normally, but occasionally growls annoyingly) whom James Cameron presumably imagines to be a thematic descendent of Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli, but whose irritating presence simply reminded me how much I preferred the lush worlds of Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book and Andy Serkis’s Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. On October 3, 2017, it was reported that Winslet, who starred in Cameron's Titanic, had joined the cast of Avatar 2, and possibly its sequels. Cameron commented: "Kate and I had been looking for something to do together for 20 years, since our collaboration on Titanic, which was one of the most rewarding of my career", and added that her character was named Ronal. [22] [98] [23] When asked by ComicBook.com on her reasons to return to work with Cameron, Winslet said he just asked her to play Ronal and she accepted out of a combination of her love for the first Avatar film, an attraction to the well-written and strong female role she was offered, a love for being on the water and to work with Cameron and the film's cast. [99] Although the nature of her character was originally unknown, the following month Cameron said Ronal was "part of the Sea People, the reef people", in reference to the Na'vi clan of Metkayina, making Avatar 2 Winslet's first role via performance capture, or motion capture altogether, which she was looking forward to; since she insisted on performing all of her character's movements herself, she, like the child cast, had to learn free diving for the film. [53] [24] Winslet, who had been notoriously reluctant about working with Cameron again because of the complicated situations he puts his actors in for their scenes, said Cameron proposed the role to her in July 2017 when he came to help her and their fellow Titanic collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio at a fundraiser in France, sending her the scripts shortly after. [24] She commented that her role was "relatively small comparative to the lengthy shoot", as she would only have one month of shootings, but also "a pivotal character in the ongoing story". [24]

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Kate Winslet as Ronal, a free diver of the Metkayina and Tonowari's wife who is pregnant. [22] [23] Winslet called Ronal "a pivotal character in the ongoing story" but also "relatively small comparative to the lengthy shoot" since shooting all her scenes only took a month. [24] It marks her first time working with performance capture, and motion capture altogether. She, like most of the cast, also had to learn free diving for the film; while filming an underwater scene, she held her breath for over seven minutes, a new record for any film scene shot underwater. [14] [24] [25] [26] A year later, Jake leads a guerilla campaign against the RDA. During a counterinsurgency mission, Quaritch and his subordinates capture Jake's children. Jake and Neytiri arrive and free them, but Spider is captured by Quaritch, who recognizes him as his son. After the RDA fails to get information from Spider, Quaritch decides to spend time with his son to draw him to his side. In turn, Spider teaches Quaritch about Na'vi culture and language. Harlow, John (September 12, 2010). "James Cameron commissions deep sea sub to film footage for Avatar sequel". The Australian. Archived from the original on June 16, 2012 . Retrieved September 18, 2010.