Sigourney Weaver’s Dr Grace Augustine has been reborn as Jake and Neytiri’s teenaged daughter Kiri in the new film - you might remember her consciousness appeared to be downloaded into the sentient tree worshipped by the N’avi (stop laughing at the back!) at the end of part one. The Way of Water seems to have slightly hamstrung itself with an unwieldy storyline in which Quaritch is not the only character returning from the dead. Saw 2 cast members movie#Another witnessed several N’avi children frolicking in the Pandoran ocean, amongst spectacular marine fauna, while a third saw the same characters in what appeared to be a human base, seemingly discussing the events of the previous movie before they were born. One scene revealed our first look at the new Quaritch, who has been restored to life in the body of a N’avi Avatar after getting multiple arrows through the chest at the end of the last film. The sequel takes place after Jake and Neytiri are forced to flee their forest home for the coast following the return of Lang’s perfidious Colonel Miles Quaritch to Pandora - sort of. Photograph: Courtesy of 20th Century Studios/AP Then the footage was unleashed, and all of a sudden we were reminded of exactly why Avatar made such a buzz in the first place: that glorious supercharge to the senses that comes from 3D film-making zooming above the stratosphere.Īvatar: The Way of Water. A giant Cameron – the film-maker is currently in New Zealand finishing the movie – gazed down from the big screens on an auditorium of 7,000 people at the Anaheim Convention Centre in Southern California, while cast members Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), Sam Worthington (Jake Sully), Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang talked about the new movie’s focus on the importance of family. And yet pre-release hype for James Cameron’s forthcoming sequel to the highest-grossing film of all time, Avatar: The Way of Water, has been bogged down with a general sense that we have seen this all before, that a return to the world of the N’avi is less exciting than it was in 2009, when Cameron’s fantasy epic seemed primed to usher in a whole new universe of stereoscopic film-making.Īt Saturday’s D23 panel for Disney offshoots Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox, audiences were treated to the world’s first glimpse of actual footage from the movie itself. Saw 2 cast members full#After Hoffman showed the script to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules, the two decided that The Desperate was the starting script they needed for Saw II and two months later, Bousman was flown to Toronto to direct.Few people will forget the first time they saw the original Avatar in 3D, the gorgeous, verdant alien rainforests of Pandora popping out of the screen as if every viewer in the auditorium had just been fitted with 31st century tech upgrades to finally allow ourselves to see the full picture. Bousman was initially upset when he heard about his script's similarities to Saw, and feared at first that Lions Gate's call was due to complaints of plagiarism. Hoffman read the script and called Bousman wanting to produce The Desperate. Armstrong, who had worked on Saw, arrived on the scene and suggested showing the script to Saw producer Gregg Hoffman. Just as they were looking for a cinematographer, the American cinematographer David A. A German studio eventually approached him with an offer to produce the film for $1 million. Music video director Darren Lynn Bousman had just completed a script for his first film The Desperate, and was trying to sell it to studios but was getting reactions that the script was very similar to Saw. Producers needed a script for a sequel but James Wan and Leigh Whannell, director and writer of Saw, were working on Universal Pictures's Dead Silence. Saw II was immediately green-lighted after Saws successful opening weekend a year earlier.
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