James Cameron On His Titanic ‘Avatar’ Sequel Bet, ‘Terminator’ Remorse, Teaching Sigourney Weaver & Kate Winslet The 7-Minute Breath Holding Swim
14.12.2022 - 01:01
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Disney will soon find out the wisdom of its massive acquisition of Fox and ownership of the billion dollar investment in Avatar blockbusters that should give the studio a fresh supply of blockbusters over the next decade. Avatar: The Way of Water opens Friday, with only a modicum of budget drama, considering every movie he made since his breakthrough film The Terminator has been preceded by media pearl clutching that Cameron’s penchant for big budgets would finally ruin a studio. It never happened, not on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Abyss, Aliens, True Lies, Titanic (where a chastened Cameron surrendered his backend after doubling the budget of a film that won Best Picture and became Hollywood’s highest grosser; and again on Avatar, whose gross surpassed Titanic and is the largest worldwide grossing film ever. Not that it hasn’t been stressful; former Fox chief Bill Mechanic once told me he wouldn’t get a physical during one of these pictures, for fear his doctor would hospitalize him over blood pressure. But nobody to date has lost betting on Cameron.
Here, Cameron discusses the stakes, shooting sequels back to back, and what happened why things didn’t go better after he lent his creative input on Terminator: Dark Fate, after swearing off the series when rights to his Terminator creation were bought out from under him by Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna and scuttled his plans to make a third film himself.
DEADLINE: Top Gun: Maverick was the movie that got people out of the house and back into movie theaters after Covid. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever followed, now Avatar: They Way of Water brings hope that they come back even further.
JAMES CAMERON: I just got back from Tokyo, I managed to pick up COVID on the
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