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Avatar 2 time jump revealed by James Cameron

Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox

From Digital Spy

James Cameron is opening up about what fans can expect from the upcoming Avatar sequel and revealing the details of one particularly important scene.

In a new interview with Empire, Cameron teased a time jump as he confirmed that Avatar 2 is actually set at least eight years after the original as Jake and Neytiri now have an 8-year-old daughter together.

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Photo credit: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic - Getty Images

He shared that there's one particular scene in the movie that's shot from the perspective of the little girl as she sees her parents in a "marital dispute". According to Cameron, it's a "critical" sequence and is part of an "emotional rollercoaster" storyline for Jake.

“There’s a three-page argument scene between Jake and Neytiri, a marital dispute, very, very critical to the storyline,” he said. “I wound up shooting it all from the point of view of the 8-year-old hiding under the structure and peeking in.

"Having gone through the experience with [Sam Worthington] on Avatar, I now knew how to write the Jake character going forward across the emotional rollercoaster of the next four movies. It’s been tough on him."

Cameron then continued: "He’s done two pictures back to back now, because we did 2 and 3 together. He had to go to some dark places.”

Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox

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Ahead of its December 2020 release date, he added that the scenes for Avatar 2 that have performance-capture elements have wrapped, though all the live-action scenes are now about to start production and will take a good few more months.

He said: "That pesky little live-action component is going to cost me five months of my life, across the two movies."

Avatar 2 will be released on December 18, 2020. Avatar 3 is then due on December 17, 2021, with Avatar 4 arriving on December 20, 2024, and Avatar 5 on December 19, 2025.


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