Avatar 2's runtime caused "tension" between James Cameron and the studio

Avatar: The Way of Water
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Cameron says there was a lot of stress between him and th🌼e studio over Avatar: The Way of Water's lengthy runtime.

"I think there was a lot of tension aಞround length," Cameron told . "And because it's a complicate🥀d linear narrative, which is the worst scenario for trying to shorten, you've got a complex story servicing a lot of characters, and it's like dominos falling: This has to happen for that to happen. You're not following a bunch of parallel plot lines in a way that you could take a lot out."

"The hardest thing when you're trying to shorten a film is to hold onto the things that don't advance the plot, that are beautiful or scary or suspenseful for their own sake," he continued. "Things🀅 came out, and then if I felt the pacing was off, we put things back in."

The film sits at 3 hours and 12 minutes long, around 30 minutes longer than the first Avatar. Cameron reportedly 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:lost his temper with an executive who "b🐬egged" him for a shorter runtime on the original.

"I think this movie is going to make all the fucking mone♏y,'" he told the exec (via ). "'And when it does, it’s going to be too late for you to love the film.'"

Per , the sequel opened to $134 million domestically with a global total of $435 million, and will need to become one of the highest-grossing movie♛s of all time to break even.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avatar: The Way of Water is in theaters now.

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