It has lots of emotions to go with the pictures this time. Avatar: Way of the Water (not to be confused with Avatar: The Last Airbender) will feature a three-hour, 10-minute runtime. Director James Cameron says it's because there's more emotion, according to his new interview with Total Film (via Variety).
Plainly, the major reason why Avatar 2 took so long is the long pre-production state, a result of Cameron's commitment to the special effects that set Avatar apart from other films of its time to begin with.
Avatar 2: The Way of Water has a runtime of 3 hours and 12 minutes (or 192 minutes). That's 30 minutes longer than the first Avatar, meaning that even those accustomed to long movies will have quite the extended period in front of the big screen.
Right after the second movie in the franchise hit theaters, The Hot Mic podcast host Jeff Sneider revealed that James Cameron's current cut of Avatar 3 is 9 hours long. Sneider said: "Someone reached out and said Cameron handed in a cut of Avatar 3 last week. The cut was, no joke, 9-hours long.
Cameron intends to prepare a theatrical version. Probably between 3 and 4 hours. Then later the full 9 hour cut will be released on Disney+ as a miniseries. After the success of the second film, Disney may let him do this, but I hope not.
The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is "The Cure for Insomnia" (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV. It lasts 85 hours and is considered an extraordinary achievement in the film industry.
April 27, 2022: Praise Eywa! Fans finally get to watch the very first teaser trailer for the upcoming sequel, which now has a name. It will be called Avatar: The Way of Water. Producer Jon Landau says that the trailer will premiere in theaters on Friday, May 6, ahead of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.
With Avatar: The Way of Water potentially clocking in at 3 hours and 10 minutes, it will stand as one of Cameron's lengthiest theatrical outings, just behind Titanic's theatrical cut, which ran for 3 hours and 14 minutes.
James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water has a runtime befitting the 13-year wait for the sequel: around three hours and 10 minutes, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
The film's theatrical release has been subject to five delays, with the latest occurring on June 13, 2023; it is scheduled for release on December 21, 2029. A sequel, Avatar 5, is in development and is expected to be released on December 19, 2031.
Physiology. The fully grown avatar is much closer in appearance to the long-limbed Na'vi than to a human. Typical adult size ranges from nine to ten feet (2.75 to 3.0m) tall with blue skin, bioluminescent markings and large eyes with golden irises.
In August 2017, in an interview with Empire, Cameron revealed that Stephen Lang would not only be returning in all four sequels but he would also be the main villain in all four films.
Avatar remains the longest movie James Cameron has ever made, with a runtime of 3 hours and 14 minutes (194 minutes). It's closely followed by Avatar 2, which has a runtime of 3 hours and 12 minutes (192 minutes).
Avatar sequel crosses $2 billion at box office and becomes one of the 'sixth highest-grossing films of all time' Avatar: The Way of Water surpassed $2 billion globally at the box office in just six weeks, after earning acclaim for its innovations in visual effects technology.
The violence isn't very INTENSE, but the film does deserve it's PG-13 rating. Bow and arrows are present, plus some killing and explosions -- still, nothing gets TOO over the top, and its still TWEEN and TEEN friendly. Also expect strong but INFREQUENT uses of s--t and one or two uses of f--k.
The list excludes projects comprising individual films not shot over a long period, such as the Up series, The Children of Golzow, or the Harry Potter series. The Other Side of the Wind holds the record for a movie to be in production for the longest time: it was in production stage for 48 years (1970–2018).
That film clocked in 29 minutes shorter than the upcoming sequel at two hours and 41 minutes. However, titles over three hours long — Avengers: Endgame (three hours and 2 minutes) and Cameron's Titanic (three hours and 14 minutes) — hold the No.
Who has the most screen time in Avatar: The Way of Water?
Here though, it's the pair's three biological children, Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo'ak (Britain Dalton), and Tuk (Trinity Jo-Li Bliess), their adoptive daughter Kiri (Sigourney Weaver on brilliant form) and their adoptive son “Spider” (Jack Champion), a human, who get the most screen time.
In the new issue of Total Film magazine, Cameron explained that The Way of Water was longer because Avatar did not spend as much time on emotional arcs. “The goal is to tell an extremely compelling story on an emotional basis.
A month later, Cameron has now potentially stretched the Avatar franchise in the other direction, revealing in an interview that he has plans for both Avatar 6 and Avatar 7, which, given the current every-other-December pattern, might hypothetically open in December of 2030 and 2032.
Avatar director James Cameron has confirmed that the fourth and fifth films in the series will be made. The long-awaited second film in the series – The Way Of Water – finally landed last month, with three more sequels already planned.
