The first trailer for James Cameron's Avatar 2 was shown at CinemaCon is Las Vegas and
there's a lot more details to breakdown about what else was revealed too.
Whether it be the title, the trailer description, the trailer release
date or the groundbreaking technology that they are using to bring this highly anticipated
saga back to the big screen.
In this video, I'm going to be discussing all the news and details
surrounding the Avatar 2 trailer shown at CinemaCon alongside some other things that
you may have missed.
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But without further a do, lets dive into the Avatar 2 footage shown at CinemaCon.
So attendees at the Disney panel at CinemaCon, were handed 3D glasses to witness the return
to Pandora with a first look at the stunning teaser trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar
2.
You may have already seen some of the reactions to it online, and one of them included that
of Steven Weintraub, who said, "You forget 3D can actually be pretty great.
The teaser trailer for Avatar 2 is loaded with great
looking visuals and a quiet but powerful score.
Very little dialogue.
Could be wrong but I think the teaser was shown in a variable frame
rate."
And a lot of people in attendance have praised the underwater sequences and the expansion
that this film seems to be bringing with it's Pandora world.
The different vistas are being called exotic, and the emotional core
of this story, in particular with the footage of Jake and Neytiri's family, makes for a
spectacle that will not just be all about the visual.
This is just a teaser though, so expect more on the story in a full length trailer later
this year.
But overall, the early reactions to it seem extremely positive and by the time this
film comes out, I think a lot of the online hate towards it will disappear.
General audiences will be lining up to watch the sequel to the biggest film of all time,
one by a director that has set the worldwide record multiple
times, with decade long gaps.
I am going to wait until I can watch the trailer myself to make a full judgement, but according
to the announcement, this is coming as soon as next
week.
And that's because we got some details surrounding the official title and the release date of
this privately shown trailer.
Starting with the title, the science fiction film, which
will be released on December the 16th this year, will be called Avatar: The Way Of Water.
The film stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Vin Diesel
and Trinity Bliss.
On stage producer Jon Landeau said, “We need to make sure audiences have an experience
they can’t get anywhere else, and that needs to be exclusively in theaters.”
And James Cameron himself added that the official Avatar: The Way Of Water teaser trailer will
be shown in theaters, attached to screenings of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of
Madness next week, before debuting online for everyone else a week later.
So if you want to get an early look at Avatar 2, the trailer will most likely be shown in
IMAX formats in front of Doctor Strange and then a week after,
you'll be able to watch it on social media platforms.
It's a good way of really wowing audiences for the first time in the theatre,
which is what the original Avatar did back in 2009, becoming the biggest box office success
in history, if you discount inflation.
And coming now to the trailer description, we get a better idea of what this Avatar film
is going to be centred on.
Producer John Landau said that each of the four upcoming sequels,
starting with Avatar: The Way Of Water, will center on returning Jake Sully, Neytiri, and
their family, showing the lengths they go to keep each other safe.
He states that each film will act as a stand-alone effort, that even
together, becomes a connected epic saga.”
This is great news because I've always loved Cameron's ability to distinguish films as
their own thing, even when they are apart of a growing
franchise.
Just look at the tone of Terminator 1 to Terminator 2 and that might be a great idicator of his
ability to do that.
But coming back to the Avatar 2 footage, the teaser trailer
opened with Na'vi running along tree branches on Pandora and from there, there's apparently
a lot of gorgeous looking shots to take your breath away.
In a story set more than a decade after the events of the first film, the dazzling footage
in the teaser trailer focuses on Jake and Neytiri and includes images of
Pandora’s bright blue water, both below and above, and flying shots over the landscapes.
It also shows Toruk, the flying godlike creature introduced in the first film and new underwater
creatures that reflect whales.
The audience was apparently taken to different regions across Pandora through sweeping visuals
of the planet's crystal blue oceans, lakes, and that of the
local tribe of Na'vi interacting with various species.
They describe these shots as ones that in 3D, sweep straight towards the audience and
make the full use of that technology.
The film will also put a big focus on the mentioned
children of Jake and Neytiri, and also Metkayina clan that situate around the ocean.
According to attendees, this includes Cliff Curtis as
the Metkayina leader Tonowari and Kate Winslet as a character named Ronal.
Winslet of course returns to working with cameron, after she previosuly did on Titanic.
But again, the prime focus seems to be on Jake and Neytiri's family,
with Jake Sully sporting a new haircut and saying in the trailer, "I know one thing:
Wherever we go, this family is our fortress."
This was the only dialogue, with much of the stunning
footage outlining the central story beats and introducing us to new locations.
As noted before, we'll all be able to see this in the
next few weeks, and hopefully it blows us away, just like it did to the audience at
this year's CinemaCon.
Going more into some of the technology on display, this is the big element that cameron
always seems to knock out of the park.
The director said, "with the first Avatar, we set out to
push the limits of the big screen.
With the new Avatar films, we're pushing those limits even further, with 3D, with high dynamic
range, with high frame rate, higher resolution, and a
much greater reality in our visual effects".
And based on the details revealed, it seems like he's not exaggerating.
Avatar 2 will release in 160 languages worldwide on December 16th
and have more versions than any movie in history.
This includes IMAX, 3D, Premium Large Format, high-resolution, high frames-per-second rate,
variable sound systems and more.
Dolby and other technological companies are working
hard to bring the best projection and sound advancements with Cameron's film.
Of course, the original Avatar became the top-grossing film of
all time at the worldwide box office, with more than $2.8 billion and it was praised
and awarded for pushing forward the digital era, 3D and introducing new production tools
in areas such as performance capture and virtual production.
3D hasn't stayed very relevant, but what's true was that Avatar did 3D right and not
much other films that came after could replicate the same kind of quality.
So if anyone can up the technology, it's James Cameron, and by the sounds of it, he's achieved
that with the early looks at the new tech here.
Avatar 2 will again release on December 16th, with more
sequels set for December 20th 2024, December 18th 2026, and December 22nd 2028.
So with him taking 12 years to make the original, he's
essentially taken 13 more years to launch 4 more films.
If it's as good as this trailer and footage sounds, then the four sequels are going to
be totally worth it.
And last but not least, some other news included that the original
Avatar movie will be getting remastered and re-released in theaters on September 23rd,
in time for the release of the new film.
So that'll be a great time for people who haven't
watched the first entry to go and watch it on the biggest screens available, ready for
James Cameron's new adventure in December, with
Avatar: The Way Of Water.
But that was my video discussing the Avatar 2 trailer shown at CinemaCon.
I honestly think that some people online are really underestimating the resonance that
James Cameron can bring, especially with that of general audiences.
He's set the worlwide record twice in the last 30 years, and both of those films, being
Avatar and Titanic, came out with a decade of time in
between.
So now after another decade, are we still really underestimating this visionary filmmaker
with a sequel to the biggest film of all time.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's going to be hard for Avatar 2 to reach the $2.8
billion that the first film made, but in being a sequel to that, I still think it's going
to make a hell of a lot of money.
And hearing these early descriptions and reactions to the footage,
only sells me more on the idea of audiences filling theatres this December.
The technology is being took to levels we haven't seen
before, the story is apparently being enrichened with more emotion, and the world of Pandora
is ever-expanding.
We'll have to see how it performs, but I'm personally really excited to
see the trailer for Avatar 2 next week, and the full film, when it hits theatres later
in the year.
But let me know down below in the comments section what you think towards all of
this news surrounding Avatar 2 alongside whether you are excited for James Cameron's new film.
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