Just in case your bladder didn’t endure sufficient from the primary two Avatar movies, James Cameron‘s current version of Avatar 3 might be literally nine hours long.
Cameron has never been a fan of a short and sweet movie, with all but one of his theatrical releases being under two hours long. As it stands, Cameron’s shortest movie is the famously dangerous Piranha II: The Spawning at a leisurely 94 minutes. Avatar: The Way of Water, however, stacks as much as a formidable 192 minutes. Yes, your film positively must be that lengthy.
It might all be a lot, a lot worse if he will get his method on Avatar 3 with an insider report from Jeff Sneider alleging his first minimize of the movie introduced to the studio is sitting at 9 hours lengthy. Or if you would like it in easier phrases, 540 minutes. Not solely is his first minimize lengthy, however he’s additionally apparently insisting on doing all of the particular results so he has all the pieces able to make shorter cuts.
Take this with a grain of salt, but when any Avatar 3 VFX crew members are studying this, blink twice and we’ll come and prevent.
If this sounds just like the conduct of a madman, allow us to remind you the crew of The Abyss had been subjected to actually terrible working circumstances and are alleged to have worn shirts saying “you can’t scare me, I work for James Cameron”. Cameron is believed to have calmed down from these maverick days together with his latest productions going… swimmingly.
The memes nonetheless are completely flowing round this news.
Avatar: The Way of Water took Cameron over a decade to develop, and possibly on a regular basis he’s spent round individuals in ping-pong ball fits has resulted in some type of harm. That’s if this report is definitely true in any respect.
The Way of Water is at the moment in cinemas, whereas Avatar 3 is earmarked for a Dec. 20, 2024 launch date.