Avatar: The Way of Water Won’t Be Getting a Director’s Cut

While James Cameron might need informed Denis Villeneuve in an interview final yr that he’d like to see a six-hour reduce of his movies hit streaming, it doesn’t appear like Avatar: The Way of Water goes to be the movie that places him again within the enhancing chair. That film goes to remain the total three hours and you’ll find it irresistible.

From final yr’s directors on directors interview for Variety, Cameron stated, “I think what we can see is an expanded form of cinema. I want to do a movie that’s six hours long and two and a half hours long at the same time. Same movie. You can stream it for six hours, or you can go and have a more condensed, roller coaster, immersive version of that experience in a movie theater. Same movie. Just, one’s the novel, and one’s the movie.”

While this will surely level to a willingness to make a six-hour Avatar movie, government producer Jon Landau informed Polygon that wouldn’t be taking place for Avatar 2 or 3, as a result of they merely don’t have sufficient content material to create a reduce that lengthy. Regarding the quote, Landau stated that he thinks “Jim is seizing on opportunities for other stories with two different cuts—the idea would be that you build a larger, epic narrative that can last six hours, and you pull a two-and-a-half-hour movie out of it.”

But Avatar 3 has already been shot and The Way of Water is already in theaters. There’s actually not much more that Cameron can do about getting these six-hour cuts to followers. Laundau shut hypothesis down fairly firmly, virtually stating, “We don’t have the amount of content to do that.”

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