>James Cameron will begin principal photography on Avatar 2 next Monday, September 25th, as was confirmed at the special Terminator event that was held in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, September 19th. Back in June, Cameron’s longtime coproducer and Lightstorm Entertainment head Jon Landau said that filming on the Avatar sequels (all four of them, back-to-back) would indeed begin in the last week of September of this year. The latest update on the project confirms that it is currently moving along right on-schedule, for the time being.
>Cameron and his Avatar sequels cast – which includes returning players Sam Worthington (Jake Sully), Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), Sigourney Weaver (Grace Augustine) and Stephen Lang (Miles Quaritch) along with franchise newcomers like Oona Chaplin (Taboo) and Cliff Curtis (Fear the Walking Dead) – have already begun running through the motions on the films’ “virtual” sets, ahead of the start of filming.
>This further goes to show just how meticulous Cameron is as a filmmaker, from both a technical perspective and a storytelling one – having spent the last several years fine-tuning the Avatar sequels’ scripts with a team of four other screenwriters.
Jesus imagine the amount of making-of and behind the scenes footage once the collector's box with all movies in it comes out. How much extra stuff was on the LotR special edition blurays?
Lucas Wood
>has spent 8 years in preproduction genuinely anticipating what he does
Xavier Perez
we are so close now, we'll see our azure goddess (and some other cute na'vi) on the silver screen again in our lifetime. Almost makes you want to count the days 1,185 days remaining
Eli Cook
I remember some Asian dude killing himself after watching Avatar in cinemas, wishing he could live on Pandora
Daniel Scott
>Quaritch returns My body is ready
Isaiah Nelson
I literally could not care. Avatar was one of the worst popular movies that I have ever seen in my life. Literally everyone I know who went to see it did so because of the 3D effects.
The characters are unlikable and forgettable. The Navi are downright creepy looking. The idea of having your soul taken by their demonic mother goddess is truly scary.
There was nothing good or entertaining about Avatar. It's just not a good film. Deal with it.
Logan Reed
I watched it 2 days in a row in 2D and it was a magical experience. It somehow grasped you and didn't let go till it ended a 2nd time
Noah Lopez
It's a laughable, forgettable movie with awful acting and ridiculous concepts. It appealed only to morons who were easily amused by shapes and bright colors.
Gabriel Rivera
I'm sure your taste in films is much more sophisticated
Asher Taylor
This. Dont really care about Avatar but Cameron has got to have something cool looking up his sleeve.
Cooper Cook
Damn you are smart. I love how you cut through all the bullshit.
Blake Ortiz
I remember when one of the characters first said "unobtanium" people in the theater actually laughed.
Hunter Bailey
Agreed. The fact that he actually brought in four writers makes me hopeful that this time around the narrative will be more compelling.
Grayson Taylor
There's literally nothing wrong with that line
Austin Jenkins
>In all this time there still haven't been people on mars
I dont know how the new Avatars will do well unless they shift the plots heavily. The core audience for the first movie was middle aged women who think owning ferrets and dabbling in Wiccan/New Age crap is a good idea, while the rest of Box Office came from normies who wanted to be amused by the 3d special effects.
Elijah Ross
There'll be no CGI for the characters The Navi will all be anamatronic puppets Look at the Avatar ride in Disneyworld Crazy good
Owen Sanchez
Do normies like or even remember Avatar?
Noah Davis
Based Quaritch did nothing wrong. The true hero of Avatar.
Mason Smith
Who cares?
Adrian Rivera
were waiting on Russia to have to appropriate tech to reach Mars
Asher Collins
>Cliff Curtis eeeeuuughghgh dammit i hate this faggot
Jayden Lewis
whither our sweet prince?
Isaiah Sanchez
This is the science fiction saga that will be remembered. Not those new Star Wars and Star Trek movies that are as save and generic as can be. This will be an actual well thought-out sci-fi world.
Juan Peterson
The studio should care if they want to make a bazillion dollars again.
Josiah Richardson
This is it...over a century of cinema has led up to this one moment
Brody Moore
Do you doubt?
Elijah Davis
>all four of them, back-to-back How many reshoots will there be?
Isaac Phillips
non. all movie magic
Anthony Jenkins
this phrase gets abused a lot but quaritch really did fight to save the human race albeit brutally
Aaron King
He died in the first movie, no? >yfw the absolute madman Cameron does a Quaritch origin movie as one of the 4
Aiden Adams
Or maybe it's because it sounds completely ridiculous
Aaron Gomez
>Begins Filming Jesus. They've waited that long to just start filiming it?
Jonathan Watson
He wasn't even brutal about it He gave every opportunity for the navi to leave. It was Jake that dropped the ball by chasing blue puss instead of actually telling them to get the fuck out
Parker Cox
are you saying you want to rush it out like these superhero movies on an accelerating conveyor belt?
Ryan Morgan
>Do normies like or even remember Avatar? Of course not. People forgot about that shit a week after they saw it.
James Watson
JC will either say he has a backup cloned body on Earth or have him become part of the Treenet like Siggy Weaver did
Austin Butler
Did you see the first Avatar? It was one of the worst mainstream films of the last decade, right up there with capeshit
He spent 8 years rolling around in shit so that he could feed audiences the best, most fermented shit possible
Eli Reyes
There is difference between rushing a movie and releasing a movie timely to keep the interest going. Disney World already has a nearly finished Avatar Park because they thought that at this point in time the third movie was about to be released.
Kevin Flores
>science words sound funny to stupid people
Shocker
Anthony Carter
>A na'vi Quartich rallying different tribes into fighting Jake's You know what, I'm fine with that too
Caleb Wilson
>Trying to defend unobtainium
Sorry james, it just sounds stupid.
Charles Hill
I watched it opening night in the cinema. only time I ever thought it was worth paying for 3d
Dylan Nguyen
We are talking about James Cameron. The god of cinema. The god of cinema creating his own sci-fi universe in which he invested years and years. Have faith.
Kevin Martinez
>anamatronic puppets >implying Jim didn't perfect the science of cloning and gene splicing to create actual Na'vi for his movies I bet you doubt Avatar being actually shot on another planet, too.
Cooper Young
Why did the Navi look like creepy blue rats?
Brody Stewart
this was all made-up hype, that "Pandora syndrome" or whatever the fuck they called it then. I saw it in theaters and even then I thought the CGI wasn't the best
Cameron Richardson
>he builds a mech suit for himself out of broken mechs, wood, treenet fibers and all the fauna on Pandora
Aiden Carter
Will they at least be rated R and contain extensive nudity?
Lincoln Phillips
You were supplied with a source that this term is an actual scientific term within the scientific and engineering communities. If you still think it sounds dumb you are no better than the people who laugh at "Uranus" or "Coccyx". Grow up and try reading a book.
Adam Howard
Yeah Dances with Smurfs and Space Ferngully were so original.
William Collins
James Cameron is a dumbass
Jaxon Morgan
>You were supplied with a source that this term is an actual scientific term within the scientific and engineering communities.
No one gives a fuck you Space Smurf loving pleeb.
Adrian Baker
Seemed to compell audiences and critics world wide. The autistic outliers hating the movie on an Indonesian condom repair image board don't matter.
Jacob Roberts
>Terminator was good, but there's no way that the director of Piranhas 2 can make a good sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien, it's too perfect >Ok, Aliens was good, but Terminator 2 is going to be terrible. How many stories can you make about killer robots chasing damsels? >Ok, Terminator 2 was great, but how is an action movie director going to make a love story on the Titanic a hit? It can't be done >Ok, Titanic was good and it broke records, but that was just a fluke. Blue cat people in space? Guaranteed flop >Ok, Avatar broke all the records that Jim set with Titanic, but that was just a fluke too. There's NO way Avatar 2 is going to be any good
Jason Murphy
>Einsteinium as an element exists >reee unobtainium is too silly a word state of redditors
Austin Gonzalez
Nice argument. You must be some kind of scholar.
Tyler Powell
Avatar? More like Avaturd.
Lincoln Wright
>>Titanic was good
Ryder Powell
Avatar 2’s final world wide box office will be less than $1 billion.
Nathan Thompson
If Ridley Scott can go senile, so can James.
Juan Miller
Nah. People only went to see it because of the 3D and then they forgot about it a day later because the plot was so stupid and forgettable.
Jaxon Harris
>hating on Titanic
Insecure kissless virgin detected.
Angel Rodriguez
>Titanic wasn't good
Brayden Hill
Ridley isn't going on sole missions to the bottom of the sea for shits and giggles. Cameron is a mad man but not senile
Connor Phillips
And that reflects on its quality, how? No matter how you feel about the movie or James Cameron, you have to give the man props for being this ambitious.
Julian Scott
it's a bad film that will no doubt spawn bad sequels but i'm pretty sure the tech and visuals are why most people are into it
Hunter Stewart
>movie had extremely strong legs and strong word of mouth >was in theaters for a really long time because the drop-off was so slow >many people kept seeing it over and over again
Yeah looks like reality refutes your claim. People don't get that thrilled by shallow effects or 3D but by emotionally comeplling experiences such as the brilliant world building of Avatar and experiencing the world of Pandora through the screen. Keep posting hate though. God knows you have enough time on your hands with nothing better to do.
Wyatt Sanchez
>We named an element after the guy who spearheaded the Manhattan Project >Makes sense
>Naming an element after the word unobtainable >Doesn't make sense.
Asher Gomez
>blames Cameron for a word that was established and defined by scientists in the 50s
Smart.
Jason Morris
avatar was plain and boring so really, nobody cares
Michael Thomas
Very few people have forgotten it, you're mistaken.
Mason Torres
>I am not hungry therefore nobody is hungry
Logan Nelson
>ignoring Livermorium and Californium face it, your point was shit.
Christian Stewart
Titanic is fucking amazing and I hate romantic movies.
William Peterson
>Avatar 2 Begins Filming Next Week >Begins
Nigga what!? I thought they were already half way though 3 by now
Xavier Rodriguez
Although I wouldn't be that harsh I agree mostly.
Seeing Avatar isn't interesting to me, the story was self contained already, and no amount of planning will make it compelling in the end. Its just the same as getting "hyped" for the planet of the apes movies. Hell, maybe even less meaningful.
They're well made blockbusters and no more. I'd rather wait to see the next thing that Refn and Von Trier make because at least their shit will be divisive and unique for the most part.
Ryan Jenkins
really, nobody cares. *yawn* cameron has wasted the final act of his life on capeshit in space
Nolan Green
Seriously nobody is hungry.
Joseph Bailey
>Since the late 1950s,[a][1] aerospace engineers have used the term "unobtainium" when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects, except that it does not exist. By the 1990s, the term was in wide use, even in formal engineering papers such as "Towards unobtainium [new composite materials for space applications]."[2][3] The word unobtainium may well have been coined in the aerospace industry to refer to materials capable of withstanding the extreme temperatures expected in re-entry.[1] Aerospace engineers are frequently tempted to design aircraft which require parts with strength or resilience beyond that of currently available materials.
So basically it was just a fun nickname for expensive stuff. Do you really think the humans would continue calling it unobtainium instead of I dunno Pandorium?
Carter Flores
And you're wasting the best years of your life on a micronesian basket weaving mail correspondence.
Zachary Thomas
Thought that was a blue Tristar unicorn for a second.
Robert Robinson
As far as we know the name unobtainium may just be a nickname for the material in the Avatar universe and has an actual name. It doesn't matter. What matters is that retarded people have no clue that unobtainium is an actual real world scientific term that perfectly fits a material such as the one in the movie.
Justin Bell
>brilliant world building of Avatar Uh what? I think it's visually compelling, but what fucking world building? The Navi are pretty much jungle Indians.
Juan Mitchell
There was more to the world building of Avatar than just the Na'vi, or even just Pandora.
Eli Wood
The problem is that it makes sense in the script but in the context of the actual film you see some caricature of a typical evil capitalist use the term.
It's basically Cameron's "For You" moment.
Hunter Thomas
>Wah wah wah my diaper is full of big, wet, smelly Avaturds!
Kevin Sanchez
>As far as we know the name unobtainium may just be a nickname for the material in the Avatar universe and has an actual name. Then don't you think the the scientific minded people would have used its official name.
Let's just be honest the use of Obtainium in Avatar is foreshadowing with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. And that's an unforgivable sin, James Cameron did not make Avatar with the idea of having it be "grounded" in any real sense. It's a superhero movie.
Brody Nguyen
Suicide postponed.
Benjamin Richardson
>As far as we know the name unobtainium may just be a nickname for the material in the Avatar universe and has an actual name. it's a real life term to describe just such a thing, NASA coined it.
Colton Wilson
You think scientists wouldn't call a material with the properties of the one in the movie "unobtainium"? Google stupid scientific names or something like that and you'll see how much scientists like to give stuff ridiculous names.
Keep in mind how much silicon impacted us. How much we accomplished thanks to this material which is why there's this era called thze Silicon Age. Now take a material with such incredible properties that it borders on magic. A room-temperature superconductor. Do you have any idea what the possibilities would be? That would make silicon look almost trivial. I don't doubt at all that scientists would actually name that element unobtainium just to signify how incredible it is. It would propell human technology a thousand years into the future.
Cooper Wilson
He was too pure for this world.
He's with Eywa now.
Joshua Young
>And that's a forgivable sin, Fixed.
Justin Hill
>Avatar
Oh, thanks for reminding me OP. I need to add this word to my filter list.
I hate this movie and I hate the fans even more.
Jaxon Hall
i remember watching titanic when i was 16 or smth and i thought it was like the best movie ever, such epic love story omg. why am i such a pussy
Nicholas Davis
What part of the world building was particularly emotionally compelling to you?