James Cameron Wrote ‘Avatar 1.5’ to Fill within the Gaps Between Films

Although we’ll probably by no means get a film that takes place between Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron apparently is aware of precisely how the primary characters of his first movie lived their lives throughout that point. In truth, he’s already written it.

In a Way of Water press convention on Tuesday, Sam Worthington—who performs Jake Sully, the disabled ex-marine turned Na’vi freedom-fighter—revealed that Cameron gave him an enormous manuscript earlier than they started capturing the Avatar sequel that detailed the adventures his character had with Neyteri (Zoe Saldana) earlier than settling into home bliss.

“Jim realized that that story was about them being warriors and taking on battles with other clans,” Worthington stated. “It gave us a good jumping off point to understand how to fill in that gap that’s missing.”

Cameron has been fascinated with the bigger Avatar universe, and the interconnected, intergenerational drama of those films, for a really very long time. While it’s clear that this a part of Jake and Neyteri’s lives wasn’t what he needed to concentrate on on this movie—which goes to be focusing way more on household dynamics, what it means to construct group, and the way Jake and Neyteri are as mother and father—perhaps some die-hard fan will discover a technique to get that secret Avatar 1.5 script.

Avatar: The Way of Water opens December 16.

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