James Cameron is from another planet. The legendary director is just too talented, driven, creative, and visionary to be human.
If he makes a movie, you can rest assured it will be successful, and he will push the envelope on every part of it.
His new future hit is Avatar: The Way of Water, and before he even flipped the switch on a camera or said “Action” for the first time, he put his writers through the wringer to make sure they were prepared, giving them 800 pages of notes he had about the world of Avatar.
He demanded that his writers be experts in Pandora history, and he spent six months compiling the notes for this team to digest before a word was written.
Here’s what he told ScreenRant about his first meeting with that writing crew.
“I walked in on the first day with the whole writer’s room, and I plopped down 800 pages of notes, single-space. I said, ‘Do your homework, and then we’ll talk.’”
The first version of Avatar he made in 2009 was a monster hit. It did almost $3 billion worldwide, and he made his team dive deep into the original to discover why it was so successful before they embarked on the sequel.
“The first thing I challenged them with was, ‘Before we start talking about new stories, let’s figure out how the first story worked. What were people keying into, and what was working for them? We had a lot of discussions about that, and every idea we came up with as we went along had to measure up against that standard.”
Fast forward to now. The new one is being raved about by critics who have seen the early screenings. It stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, and Sigourney Weaver and debuts Friday, December 16.
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