Legendary Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron has revealed that he spent an entire year writing the screenplay for the second film in the ‘Avatar’ franchise, but then threw it in the trash.
In an interview with British magazine ‘Times UK’, Cameron said that during the 13-year gap between 2009’s Avatar and 2022’s ‘The Way of Water’, he spent at least a full year writing the story for Avatar Two. It was installed, but it never became an adornment of the curtain.
Cameron said: ‘When I sat down with my team of writers to start Avatar Two, I said we can’t start the next project until we understand the success of the first film. What were the reasons? We have to unravel the mystery of what happened.’
Cameron said that he and his team came to the conclusion that ‘all films succeed at different levels. The first level is the character of the film. This is a problem and a solution. The second is the subject of the film. What is the film trying to say? But ‘Avatar’ also worked on the third level and that is the unconscious. I wrote a complete script for its sequel, read it but felt it couldn’t reach level three. Oh it’ll have to start over. It took a year.’
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During an appearance last year, Cameron further elaborated on this third level, which he believes is what made Avatar the highest-grossing film of all time at the worldwide box office.
Cameron said: ‘There was also a tertiary level. It was a dreamlike feeling to be in this different world, to go to a place that is safe and where you want to be.’
Cameron added: ‘They could fly, there was a sense of freedom and joy or whether it was in the woods where you could smell the earth. It was an emotional thing that spoke on such a deep level. It was the spirituality of the first film.’
Cameron revealed in the same interview that he almost fired the writers of the Avatar sequels because they were initially willing to create new stories but failed to detect the DNA of the first film’s success. .
According to him: ‘When I sat down to write the sequel, I knew that at that time the team would have three scriptwriters and eventually the team turned into four. I got this group of writers together and said I don’t want to hear anyone’s new ideas or new pitches until we’ve spent some time figuring out what worked in the first movie. What is associated with it and why it became so successful.’
‘They wanted to talk about new stories. I said we are not doing that yet. Eventually I had to threaten to fire them all because they were doing what writers often do. They try to create new stories. I said we need to understand what connection the film had with the audience. I also asked them to protect its core idea and its roots.’
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2024-10-02 21:47:34
