"Avatar: The Way of Water, bolstered by Avatar's popularity, then swelled to a butt-numbing 3 hours and 12 minutes, about the same length as Gandhi, The Right Stuff, and, coincidentally, James Cameron's Titanic. Thankfully, Avatar: Fire and Ash is going to land in the middle, although it could have been a little shorter if not for an anticipated scene that Cameron insisted on including."
"In an interview with Variety, Cameron revealed that the runtime for Avatar: Fire and Ash is more than three hours. "We're at three hours, big surprise!" he said, poking fun at his reputation. This came up in a conversation about how he's learned to trust his creative instincts, allowing himself to indulge certain choices even if it means a longer runtime."
""It didn't exist in Fire and Ash," Cameron said. "And I went, 'Oh, he's got to go get the bird.' There's something in Jake's destiny that requires it, right?" Given the unusual level of creative control that Cameron enjoys, adding in the Toruk was a relatively simple process. "I just re-wrote it, and we went back and we shot two or three scenes around that concept, and I threw some stuff out and stuck that in," he said."
Avatar (2009) ran 2 hours 42 minutes while Avatar: The Way of Water ran 3 hours 12 minutes. Avatar: Fire and Ash will run just over three hours. The Toruk, a bird-like creature from the first film, returns and required new narrative beats. The return prompted rewrites, two or three newly shot scenes, and the removal of other material to accommodate it. Creative choices prioritized character destiny and worldbuilding, accepting a longer runtime to preserve a specific sequence and the intended dramatic effect.
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