"Director James Cameron's third entry in the " Avatar" series, "Avatar: Fire and Ash," opens this December, but audiences jonesing for a big-screen trip to Pandora can whet their appetites this week with the theatrical re-release of " Avatar: The Way of Water." Released in 2022, 13 years after the original "Avatar," " The Way of Water" proved to be worth the wait, a sequel (like Cameron's earlier "Aliens" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day,") that built on the earlier film 's innovations and dug deeper into its themes."
"Cameron had those problems solved heading into "The Way of Water," but created a whole new set of challenges for himself by setting so much of the movie underwater. "What we didn't know is, can we do all those things we did before, but can we do it in and under water? How do you ride an ocean creature? Riding aerial creatures was complicated enough, but we didn't have that medium that's 800 times denser than air pushing back against us.""
"Cameron's team built machines that were water jet propelled so that his actors could rocket through the water under the surface, come up and fly above the surface and then dive back in, all the while letting the technology drive the story and vice versa."
Avatar: Fire and Ash opens this December, accompanied by a theatrical re-release of Avatar: The Way of Water. The Way of Water arrived in 2022, 13 years after the original Avatar, expanding the franchise's technical and thematic scope. Production confronted new underwater challenges distinct from aerial sequences because water is far denser than air. The filmmaking team engineered water-jet propelled rigs so actors could move under, through, and above the surface. Technology and storytelling operated as a feedback loop, with creature motion, rider technique, weapon handling, and interaction informing both design and narrative choices.
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