While we might not have James Cameron-level credits, we can still learn how to reject notes that don’t work for the story we are telling.
Before the release of the long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron will bring the world of Avatar back to the theater.
With Avatar being one of the most successful films of all time, grossing more than $2.8 billion worldwide and winning three Academy Awards, the decorated filmmaker looks back on the film with pride despite the challenges he had to face with the studio to keep his preferred edit, which ended up being the final cut of Avatar.
Cameron revealed in an interview with the New York Times that he fought 20th Century Fox executives to keep sequences that were key to Avatar’s story. Cameron rejected the studio’s notes to make the film shorter by trimming the movie’s flying sequences.
He told the executives that Titanic paid for the “half-billion dollar complex on [its] lot.”
Author: Alyssa Miller
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