By Danielle Broadway<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES, Dec 10 (Reuters) \u2013 For James Cameron, following the release of the 2025 movie \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash,\u201d it\u2019s imperative to cut costs for future \u201cAvatar\u201d franchise films.<\/p>\n
If the Canadian and New Zealand filmmaker can\u2019t \u200dfind a way to make the cost of production \u201ccheaper,\u201d he may be \u201cdoing something else\u201d before getting to the fourth and fifth \u201cAvatar\u201d films that he\u2019s previously announced plans for.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many, many variables ahead of us before we can talk about four and five and beyond,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a universe, like the (George) Lucas universe, for example, it\u2019s open-ended. I\u2019ve only imagined \u200ca few more stories. Maybe it continues. Maybe it doesn\u2019t,\u201d \u200che added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash,\u201d distributed by Disney, is scheduled to debut in movie theaters on December 19, continuing the saga of the blue Na\u2019vi people. Sam Worthington plays Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana portrays his wife, Neytiri.<\/p>\n
All three of the \u201cAvatar\u201d films that have \u200bbeen completed utilize advanced motion capture technology, requiring large-scale budgets.<\/p>\n
Cameron worries that with the popularization of streaming platforms, less people will see films in the movie theaters, \u200dincluding his \u201cAvatar\u201d projects. However, he remains optimistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still \u200bthink people want to go have that deeper, more profound experience \u200bthat you have when you can\u2019t pause it (a movie). The second you can pause \u200dit, you lose that,\u201d the Oscar-winner said.<\/p>\n
For the cast members, it was meaningful to find emotional connections to their characters to keep themselves immersed in the fictional world.<\/p>\n
\u201cI plastered burn victims all over my trailer, which was horrific,\u201d said Oona Chaplin, who portrays the new antagonist named Varang, the Na\u2019vi leader of the volcano-dwelling \u200dclan.<\/p>\n
While she said she doesn\u2019t think she would do that again, it did help her channel some of her character\u2019s anger and grief.<\/p>\n
Similarly, Zoe Salda\u00f1a, who reprises her role as \u200dNeytiri, said that being \u200da real-life mother helped her channel Neytiri\u2019s grief after losing \u200ba child.<\/p>\n
Cameron applauded each actors\u2019 authentic performance, noting that \u201cAvatar\u201d does \u200bnot use \u2060any generative AI (artificial intelligence) to develop films.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not historically \u200cused generative AI on \u201cAvatar\u201d films. I think the broad public doesn\u2019t know how we\u2019ve made these movies. They think it\u2019s some kind of computer thing and now AI,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
While the idea of synthetic actors replacing human actors worries the \u201cTitanic\u201d director, he does see the value in using AI as a supplementary tool to support creative endeavors.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Danielle Broadway, \u2060Editing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Dec 10 (Reuters) \u2013 For James Cameron, following the release of the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-186285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}