Premiere: Premiere in Russia - December 15, 2022 (worldwide - December 14, 2022)
original name: Avatar 2
Country of Origin: United States of America
Genre : fantasy, action, thriller, adventure
Producer: James Cameron
Cast: Zoe Saldana, Kate Winslet, Vin Diesel, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Worthington, David Thewlis, etc.
Expectations rating: 90% on Kinopoisk
The first part of "Avatar" by James Cameron was released back in 2009 and immediately won as many as 3 Oscars. After the success of the first part, the creators immediately announced the future production of sequels, which were expected to be released back in 2016. But now, 4 years after the scheduled date, the creators announced the exact release date of the film "Avatar 2", then moved from 2020 to 2022, the trailer in Russian, unfortunately, is not yet available for viewing.
Plot
In the previous installment, former paralyzed Marine Jake Sully replaced his late twin brother in a special program to explore the planet Pandora. For the purpose of research, scientists have created special hybrids of local humanoids and humans, called avatars. It just turned out that the people did not have very good intentions - they tried to destroy the house of the Na'vi people, but Jake came to the aid of a humanoid, who decided to stay forever in the body of Na'vi. People were expelled from Pandora.
Part 2 will tell about Jake Sully becoming the leader of the tribe and about his struggle against selfish earthlings, who returned to the planet with even greater power. There is also information that Neytiri and Jake will have children, and they are already quite adults, who managed to grow up in 8 years.
At what stage of production are all four films now?
When it became known that the sequel to "Avatar" was given the green light, Cameron decided not to deviate from his original plans and started producing two sequels at the same time. They decided to shoot them in the same place as the first part - in New Zealand.
Then, in 2013, the creators did not even know that in a few years this solution would save them so much time and money: after the outbreak of the pandemic, New Zealand firmly established itself at the top of the list of the safest countries, and it was relatively safe to continue production in the same mode.
Filming in relatively safe New Zealand during the pandemic did not save the Avatar sequel from downtime. The filmmakers had to postpone the premiere of the film, which was supposed to be released in December 2021, for a year. James Cameron told about the reasons for the shift in the official Twitter of the picture.
A total of four more parts are planned to be released. And if everything goes according to plan with the second and third films, then there are problems with the fourth and fifth parts. This is confirmed by Cameron himself, who back in 2017 said in an interview that if the box office does not pay off the shooting, then they can not be expected to come out.
Director and filming
Back in 1994, Jace Cameron took his first steps in film production, drawing inspiration from "every science fiction book" he read as a child, as well as from the adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. And now, several years after the overwhelming success of the first part of the motion picture, James Cameron, who shot the cult films: Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Titanic (1997), three-time Oscar winner, finally started to create a project, the release date of which was postponed all the time. The transfer is due to the fact that Cameron painstakingly wrote the script for as many as 3 parts of the sequel for more than 4 years. The director said the delays were beneficial because the design team had more time to work. Most of the actors, CEOs - they've all read the four scripts, so they know exactly what the destinies of their characters are: they know where they're going, they know how to act in the first two films now.
Source: Twitter
In preparation for the project, Cameron made several trips with the actors to the rainforests, and also dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench himself to inspire him to create his documentary, as well as the creation of Pandora's marine world. Cameron also mentioned a new animation technique that he used in the production.
For the filming of the sequels, the MBS Media Campus in Southern California was rented for 5 years. The director himself wanted to install solar panels there, due to the energies of which he would have shot the film.
Comparing the themes of the sequels to the originals, Cameron stated that “it will be a natural continuation of all the themes, characters and spiritual victories. Basically, if you liked the first movie, you’ll love those movies, and if you hated it, you’ll probably hate the sequel. ” He later compared the sequels to the Godfather franchise, calling them a "generational saga."
On November 23, 2017, the director stated that the film crew had been taking tests with actors on underwater filming over the past month, and that the group was able to film the first of scenes involving six of their seven main child actors on November 14. Mixing underwater shooting and image capture is a feature that has never been there before; it took the team a year and a half to develop a new motion capture system.
Cameron noted that there is a possibility that the film can be shown in a "no glasses" format, although this is not entirely accurate. If this happens, it will be the first time in the history of cinema.
Cast
Stills from the 2020 movie Avatar 2 showed that the actors and roles have not changed, and some have even been added. You can talk about the entire cast for a long time, because it is "filled" with world-famous stars:
- The main character, who became one of the Na'vi, was played by Sam Worthington (For reasons of conscience, Everest, On the Edge);
- Zoe Soldana acted as his sweetheart (Star Trek, Guardians of the Galaxy, Words);
- Sigourney Weaver will also return to her role as Dr. Grace (Aliens, Ghostbusters);
- The film will also feature Kate Winslet, who will play Ronal (Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Reader);
- Edie Falco will portray General Ardmore, Commander in charge of the interests of the RDA ("The Sopranos", "The Other Side of the Truth");
- Oona Chaplin will play the role of Warang ("Long Road", "In the Air", "Game of Thrones");
- Michelle Yeoh (Inferno, Memoirs of a Geisha) as Dr. Karina Mogue;
- Vin Diesel ("xXx 4", "Loner", "Fast and Furious 9", "Bloodshot");
- And also Stephen Leng, Joel Moore, Cliff Curtis and others.
Interesting Facts
Facts that you will definitely like:
- The film was supposed to be composed by James Horner (A Beautiful Mind, Titanic, Balto), but he died tragically in 2015;
- James Cameron has openly confirmed that he is serious about shooting a movie at a higher frame rate, which he says "takes the glass out of the window into reality." The possible frame rate is 48 frames per second or even 60 frames per second. This will mean that either a downgraded version will be required for release in most theaters around the world, or the film will make its debut in attempts to get the HFR format in theaters around the world;
- There was a gap of 11 years between the first and second films. This is one of the longest development periods, announced almost immediately after the success of the first film;
- On May 27, 2017, Disney Studios Animal Kingdom Park in Orlando, Florida opened Pandora as one of the theme zones. It is inspired by the film by James Cameron, and includes the floating Pandora mountains, alien wildlife and bioluminescent plants.
Viewers have to wait for the official trailer for the 2022 Russian film "Avatar 2" with an exact release date in December 2022. We hope it will become even more successful than the first part, because James Cameron and the rest of the film crew have been working on the sequels for so many years to work out all the scenes in detail and leave no questions for the audience.
