James Cameron Gives His Review Of ‘Aquaman’ & Talks ‘Avatar 2’

Director James Cameron shared his thoughts on James Wan’s Aquaman and teased Avatar 2‘s underwater scenes will be more realistic.

Aquaman is a technological achievement in film, as James Wan brought the world of Atlantis to life. Aquaman was also a monster hit, earning over $1 billion dollars worldwide. Meanwhile, James Cameron is currently creating an underwater world of his own with the upcoming Avatar sequels.

James Cameron’s Avatar sequels is also using groundbreaking technology, filming motion capture scenes underwater. Aquaman beat James Cameron’s Avatar 2 in giving audiences a fully realized underwater world. However, James Cameron is still one of the most forward thinking directors in the film industry today and has spent a decade crafting the Avatar sequels. In a recent interview with Yahoo!, James Cameron applauded James Wan’s Aquaman film:

“I think its great fun. I never could have made that film, because it requires this kind of total dreamlike disconnection from any sense of physics or reality. It exists in a somewhere between a Greek mythic and a fairy tale landscape. People just kind of zoom around underwater, because they propel themselves mentally, I guess, I don’t know. But it’s cool! You buy it on its own terms.”

James Cameron also notoriously “directed” an Aquaman film in HBO’s Entourage, which smashed the box office like James Wan’s real life film. James Cameron went on to say Avatar 2 will be very different and a bit more realistic when it comes to its underwater sequences:

“I’ve spent thousands of hours underwater. I am very literal about my underwater, it needs to look like its real. And while I can enjoy that film, I don’t resonate with it because it doesn’t look real. It doesn’t help us with our issues of understanding and exploring, or preserving the ocean. Although, they did throw in a couple of things with whales and things like that to remind us that we are kind of using the ocean as a toilet and as a garbage dump. So I applaud the film for that.”

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Here is the synopsis for Aquaman:

From Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan comes an action-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas, “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa in the title role. The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime—one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be… a king.

Directed by James Wan, Aquaman stars Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry, Amber Heard as Mera, Willem Dafoe as Vulko, Patrick Wilson as Orm / Ocean Master, Dolph Lundgren as Nereus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Black Manta, Nicole Kidman as Atlanna, Ludi Lin as Captain Murk, and Temuera Morrison as Tom Curry.

Aquaman is now playing in theaters.

Avatar 2 plot details remain under wraps, however the sequels will continue to bring the world of Pandora to life and expand James Cameron’s vision they explore new locations on the planet not seen in the first film. The sequels are said to be four standalone experiences that will form together one epic saga that James Cameron has spent the last several years writing

Directed by James Cameron, Avatar 2 stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, CCH Pounder, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, David Thewlis.

Avatar 2 his theaters December 18, 2020.

The additional three Avatar follow-ups were previously dated to release on December 17, 2021, December 20, 2024, and December 19, 2025.

Source: Yahoo!