James Cameron directorial Avatar: The Way of Water, starring Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang among others, is set to release on Disney Plus Hotstar on June 7.
Filmmaker James Cameron went all out–and all under– to film his acclaimed Avatar: The Way of Water to perfection. The movie, which released last December to global acclaim and box office, is set to release on Disney Plus Hotstar on June 7.
Sequel to the award-winning 2009 epic adventure Avatar, the latest film follows the Sully family (Jake Sully, Neytiri, and their children) as they embark on a journey into uncharted regions of Pandora.
Detailing how the film’s breathtaking underwater sequences were shot, James Cameron said his team faced the challenge of capturing performances underwater. “The key was to actually shoot underwater and at the surface of the water so people were swimming properly, getting out of the water properly, diving in properly. It looks real because the motion was real. And the emotion was real,” the filmmaker said in a statement.
According to a note, a massive tank was constructed at Manhattan Beach Studios, home to Cameron and Landau’s production company, Lightstorm. The tank, spanning 120 feet in length, 60 feet in width, and 30 feet in depth, held over 250,000 gallons of water, replicating natural oceanic conditions.
“That became our complete Swiss army system. We could do waves breaking on the shore and have people trying to get out of the water while they’re getting hit by waves. We could create wave interaction with the creatures and people surfacing, getting hit by a 10 wave and trying to say their lines and trying to breathe at the same time,” Cameron said.
Avatar: The Way of Water, starring Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement and Kate Winslet, will stream in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam on Disney Plus Hotstar.
