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Jon Landau shows 15 minutes of footage at Busan Film Festival – The Hollywood Reporter


Selected attendees at the Busan International Film Festival on Thursday previewed the most anticipated film of 2022 – James Cameron’s long-running blockbuster Avatar: The Road of Water.

A 15-minute show featuring exclusive footage from Avatar the sequel was shown to a large Korean audience, who paid about $5 each (7,000 Korean won) to buy 3-D glasses and attend the promotional event (tickets were almost sold out). immediately after the pre-festival opening). Avatar: The Road of WaterChief producer Jon Landau was at the event to showcase the footage and discuss some of the revolutionary technological processes used in the creation of the new film.

Signaling intent to take Busan by storm, Disney installed Avatar 2 all the posters along the city’s iconic Haeundae Beach, along with the giant sand sculptures on the beach itself, bear the stamp of Avatarcharacters and some mythical sea creatures included in the sequel.

In a story set more than a decade after the events of the first film, the preview trailer shown in South Korea reintroduces Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, and Na’vi Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldaña role-playing, in front of stunning shots of Pandora’s brilliant blue waters – both above and below the surface. As revealed in the trailer, Toruk, the flying creatures introduced in the first film are back for the sequel, along with new majestic, whale-like creatures.

Appearing via video link inside the cinema, Cameron explained that his sequel attempts to convey the ongoing collapse and threats to the world’s marine ecosystems. While the previous installment delved into the rainforests of reckless strip mining, the director said he wanted to convey how the marine ecosystem affects the human condition in the new sequel. A scuba diver himself, Cameron also said his passion for ocean conservation led to a movie about the underwater world.

“It’s a story set in Pandora, but it’s also happening in our world,” Cameron said.

Landau, who attended the Busan opening ceremony on Wednesday night with his wife, also attended the special screening on Thursday, where he said there are many technical improvements in the sequel compared to the 2009 film, with a group of VFX artists dedicated to developing revolutionary underwater motion capture technology.

The reaction on Twitter from the Busan crowd started pouring in shortly after the preview.

Tweeting in Korean, user TailorContent wrote: “Director Cameron is confident for a reason! It was interesting to see the pre-release footage. You can smell the money in the CG and action scenes. There is a lot of underwater scenes in the 18-minute video released and the CG quality is very high. I can’t wait for Avatar: The Road of Water! “

Twitter user @opticron, tweeted a quote from Landau’s presentation, along with a photo of Cameron appearing via video link: “John Landau, producer of the franchise, said, ‘If the set the first film pursued something ‘photographic’, the second film attempted to pursue photorealism. “

Many other viewers were more clearly impressed in their answers.

“Wow… Avatar 2 looks so good…” another user tweeted.

Returning characters for the sequel also include Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine and Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch. The path of water also featured some big-name newcomers including Vin Diesel and Cameron’s Titanic star Kate Winslet. Behind-the-scenes talent includes Cameron’s Oscar-winning visual director Russell Carpenter Titanic DP. Avatar 2Visual effects are back at Weta FX in New Zealand, once again led by senior VFX supervisor and four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri.

The ticket sales from the Busan peak event will be donated to a charity chosen by the Busan International Film Festival and The Walt Disney Company, organizers said.

To reunite global fans with Cameron’s pandora world, Disney has re-released the original Avatar hits theaters on September 23, with enhanced visuals and sound. The remake has grossed over $15 million in North America and nearly $40 million worldwide, taking the 2009 film further into the record books. AvatarThe film’s lifetime gross is now over $2.9 billion, the highest of any film in box office history (Avengers: Endgame came in second with $2.797 billion).

Cameron, Landau and their Lightstorm Entertainment, along with 20th Century and Disney, are expected to offer Avatar 2 in a variety of formats to support a wide range of theater installations, including the use of 3D, 4K, and a high 48 fps frame rate.

Avatar: The Road of Water premieres worldwide on December 16.

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