New Images from the Set of 'Avatar 2' Feature New Beach and Underwater Filming

As we draw closer to the premiere of ‘Avatar 2‘, the studio has shared a closer look at the production with an all-new image of an unnamed Pandora beach and shots of the cast and crew while filming underwater. All four Avatar sequels are currently being filmed simultaneously in New Zealand by director James Cameron. Check out the new images from Entertainment Weekly below:

Edie Falco joins the cast as General Ardmore, a high-ranking member of the human military organization RDA (which clashed with the native Na’vi in the first movie). “It looks like we’re in a sub, but it’s really the flight deck of a dragon gunship, which is an aircraft we saw in the first movie,” Cameron says.
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Recently, Producer Jon Landau shared details on the project with Total Film Magazine (via Games Radar), telling readers that after RDA operations threaten the safety and wellbeing of Jake Sulley, his family, and their clan, they plan to travel to “what is perceived as a safe harbor” called Metkayina, supposedly where Kate Winslet’s mysterious character is from. Jon added, “And when you get to the reef, there’s a clan we call the Metkayina. The Sullys are no longer in the environment that they know, the rainforest. They become the fish out of water. They become the fish out of water both culturally and just environmentally.“

For the complicated performance-capture scenes, James Cameron hired experts in underwater dance and gymnastics. “Scuba bubbles would create too much noise in our performance-capture system,” the director says. “So no matter how long the scene took, if it took two, three, four [minutes] to shoot, everybody was holding their breath.”
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“The scripts are the blueprint from which we work with a big emotional resolution”, sharing that each script will add to a “larger epic saga” for the franchise. Landau took the time to rave about director James Cameron, telling TFM, “I think the story of Avatar 2, and the strength of the story, is what Jim [Cameron] always does in any of his movies: he writes in universal themes that are bigger than any one genre. And if you think about this, there’s really no more universal theme than family. At the center of each of our sequels is the Sully family. What are the dynamics that parents go through to protect their family?”

James Cameron (right) chats with young actor Jack Champion (center), who plays Spider, a human teenager born on Pandora. “Here you’ve got a 14-year-old kid that we taught not only to scuba dive but to dive in a full-face breathing mask — and to act in it,” Cameron says. “He did a spectacular job.”
| CREDIT: MARK FELLMAN/20TH CENTURY STUDIOS

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Source: Entertainment Weekly

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