Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) on Netflix
PG-1320223h 12mActionAdventureFantasy
Jake Sully, chief of the Omatikaya clan on Pandora, raises four children with Neytiri. When the RDA returns with a recombinant Colonel Miles Quaritch hunting him, the family flees to the sea.
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- IMDb7.5/10648,083 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes76%
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Plot summary
Sixteen years after the Na'vi drove the Resources Development Administration off Pandora, Jake Sully serves as chief of the Omatikaya clan. His family includes his sons Neteyam and Lo'ak, his daughter Tuk, and Kiri, an adopted child who came from the inert avatar of Grace Augustine. The RDA comes back to settle the moon, and among the newcomers are recombinants: Na'vi forms carrying the memories of dead human soldiers, including Colonel Miles Quaritch. Jake leads a guerrilla campaign, and Quaritch hunts for his base. Spider, Quaritch's son, has been raised by the scientists who stayed behind. Fearing what Spider knows, Jake takes his family east to the sea, and the Metkayina clan grants them asylum.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
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- While filming an underwater scene, Winslet held her breath for over seven minutes, breaking the record for longest breath hold while shooting a film scene underwater, previously held by Tom Cruise on Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
- During editing, Cameron removed about ten minutes of "gunplay action" from The Way of Water, citing mass shootings such as the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand as a reason to reduce gun violence.
- Because underwater motion capture filming had never been accomplished before, the team spent a year and a half developing a new motion capture system that could be used underwater.
- For underwater motion capture, the cast and crew avoided scuba sets because air bubbles could interfere with the sensors; because water absorbed the infrared light normally used, ultraviolet light had to be used instead.
- Cameron, Landau and at least 55 crew members returned to New Zealand and underwent a two-week government-supervised isolation; Avatar 2 and 3 became the first major Hollywood films to resume production after pandemic postponement.
- Cameron spent a year writing a 130-page script for the first sequel titled Avatar: The High Ground, then threw it out because he felt it lacked the spiritual component and surprises, later turning it into a comic book series.
- James Horner, who composed Avatar, died in a 2015 airplane crash before he could return for the sequels; his Avatar score was used in The Way of Water alongside original themes by Simon Franglen.
- Weta's VFX producer David Conley said Avatar 2 was the biggest visual effects project the company had ever undertaken, totalling nearly 3.3 billion thread hours.
