Just about one yr from this very second, audiences will likely be lining as much as see Avatar 2. Or no less than James Cameron hopes so. The sequel to Cameron’s 2009 film, which stays the very best grossing movie of all-time, is ready for launch December 16, 2022, and a brand new piece of idea artwork provides us our first have a look at its new most important characters: Jake and Neytiri’s youngsters.

That’s the picture above, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, which has a brand new interview with Cameron and his producing associate Jon Landau. The pair as soon as once more focus on how the movie will largely be set underwater and happen 14 years after the occasions of the unique, that means Jake and Neytiri’s youngsters are actually among the most important characters. You can see more pictures from the piece on this tweet from the official Avatar account.

“Ultimately, the sequels are a story about family, and the lengths parents will go through to keep that family together and keep them safe,” Landau stated. “I always say that Jim’s movies have universal themes—and really, there’s no more universal theme than family.”

Of course, we’ve been listening to this for years. Avatar 2 was initially supposed to come back out in December 2014. But finally Cameron realized if he wished to make the film underwater, he and his groups must invent new know-how to have the ability to shoot the film underwater—and all of the actors must prepare so that they’d be capable of maintain their breath and act underwater, simply so every thing regarded actual. As a results of that coaching, stars Sigourney Weaver (in a brand new thriller position since her character died within the final film) and Kate Winslet (enjoying Ronal, a member of the brand new Metkayina tribe who reside underwater) can every maintain their breaths for as much as seven minutes.

“One of my favorite memories was we had this circular tank, maybe 40 feet wide, with a big glass portal in it. I walked by one day and I see Kate Winslet walking on the bottom of the tank,” Landau stated. “She’s walking towards me and sees me in the window, and she just waves, gets to the end of the wall, turns around, and walks all the way back.”

Which, if we’re being trustworthy, looks like an entire lot of labor for one thing nobody is even certain if audiences need, Cameron most of all. “The big issue is: are we going to make any damn money?” Cameron stated. “Big, expensive films have got to make a lot of money. We’re in a new world post-covid, post-streaming. Maybe those [box office] numbers will never be seen again. Who knows? It’s all a big roll of the dice.”

A roll of the cube that may have two small youngsters caressing an enormous water lizard. The still-untitled Avatar 2 will likely be right here in a single yr. Head to EW for extra from Cameron.

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