{"id":352844,"date":"2025-12-18T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:55:06","slug":"james-cameron-appears-at-fire-and-ash-toronto-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352844\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron appears at Fire and Ash Toronto premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest film in the ‘Avatar’ series is making its Canadian premiere Wednesday. Iconic Canadian director James Cameron talks about the film. <\/p>\n

Famed film director James Cameron made a stop in Toronto on Wednesday evening, gracing the red carpet for the Canadian premiere of \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d at Scotiabank Theatre.<\/p>\n

The highly anticipated third film of his wildly successful science-fiction franchise, \u201cFire and Ash,\u201d a three-plus hour epic, will open exclusively in theatres worldwide on Friday.<\/p>\n

Cameron, who hails from Kapuskasing, Ont., has been travelling around the globe promoting his latest film. He said he specifically chose to come to Canada for the premiere.<\/p>\n

\u201c(I\u2019ve gone to) China, France, etc., I actually insisted on coming here,\u201d he told CTV News Toronto\u2019s Andria Case on Wednesday from the red carpet. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018C\u2019mon I\u2019m Canadian born and bred. We gotta go to Canada.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"James Cameron <\/p>\n

Cameron said the vision for Avatar, the first film coming out in 2009, began years before it hit the screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing back, I wrote the first story in 1995, but it didn\u2019t have all the new stories in it at that point. It was just the first film,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then when we got busy on the sequels, we basically wrote four movies. So there are two more than I could make but I think it\u2019s important for people to realize this one doesn\u2019t just go off a cliff like another chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The director went on to say that \u201cFire and Ash\u201d has a full culmination and an ending to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we do go on \u2026 I mean, if we do well with this one, and I go on, then four and five kind of become one big story, as well,\u201d said Cameron, who added that the latest installment of Avatar is one that people could watch without having seen the previous two editions.<\/p>\n

\"\"World Premiere of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” James Cameron, right, director and co-writer of “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” poses with his wife Suzy Amis Cameron at the premiere of the film on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello) <\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the questions you might have in your mind are answered as we go along in this film,\u201d he said, noting that he \u201cstrongly recommends\u201d people see at least \u201cThe Way of Water,\u201d which was released in 2022, alluding to a tragic event that occurs in that movie that is revisited in this latest edition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good to see it and feel it going into this, because then you\u2019ll feel what the character\u2019s going through a little more quickly at the beginning of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron also spoke with CP24\u2019s Jee Yun Lee about \u201cFire and Ice\u2019s\u201d storyline, its focus on love, family, friendship and loyalty. <\/p>\n

The film, Lee said, also introduces a new character: Varang, the queen of the Ash people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that we were continuing this story of the Sully family and we made a presumption that the audience cares about these people, now let\u2019s challenge that,\u201d he said, adding that Neytiri, the family\u2019s matriarch, is portrayed as a little less likeable, but there\u2019s hope that she can heal herself coming out of a place of loss and hatred.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we strove for in this is a more emotional connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added the film requires a \u201creal investment on the part of the audience,\u201d to \u201cwalk in the shoes of these characters.\u201d <\/p>\n

This is achieved, he added, through visual realism and realism in the performances.<\/p>\n

\"\"This image released by Disney shows Lo’ak, performed by Britain Dalton, left, and Tsireya, performed by Bailey Bass in a scene from “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” (20th Century Studios\/Disney via AP) This image released by Disney shows Lo’ak, performed by Britain Dalton, left, and Tsireya, performed by Bailey Bass in a scene from “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” (20th Century Studios\/Disney via AP) (Uncredited) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest film in the ‘Avatar’ series is making its Canadian premiere Wednesday. Iconic Canadian director James Cameron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[712,49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-352844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}