Disney unveiled the first images of the sequel on Wednesday in Las Vegas.Avatarwhich remains number one at the worldwide box office in terms of receipts. Avatar: The Way of Water (be literally in French”The Way of the Water“) goes according to its director James Cameron,“pushing the limits of what cinema can do”.
Attendees at the CinemaCon festival, which runs until April 28, 2022 in Las Vegas, were invited to put on 3D glasses to immerse themselves in the trailer forAvatar: The Way of Water and return to the planet Pandora where they could see its blue-skinned inhabitants swimming and soaring through the air.
“I can assure you it was worth the wait”, said Disney distribution manager Tony Chambers, confirming the title chosen for this second part of Avatar. In France, a first trailer will be screened before the film Doctor Strange 2which is released Wednesday, May 4 at the cinema.
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In this second opus ofAvatar, Jake Sully and Neytiri have become parents. The plot takes place ten years after the events told in the original feature film. Their idyllic life, close to nature, is threatened when the Resources Development Administration, a dangerous non-governmental organization, returns to Pandora. Forced to leave their natural habitat, Jake and his family go to the reefs, where they think they will find asylum. But they come across a clan, the Metkayina, with customs different from theirs.
Avatar: The Way of Water will be on the screens next December and should be followed by three other episodes of this saga. The original film has collected some 2.8 billion dollars since its release in 2009. It will be released in cinemas in France in September.
Each part will be an independent film from the others, with its own plot. The four episodes will not form part of a story arc but, taken together, will represent “an even bigger epic saga”said producer Jon Landau.
It’s from New Zealand, where James Cameron is putting the finishing touches to Avatar 2, which the director addressed to CinemaCon attendees. He promised them spectacular technological advances compared to the first Avatarwhose main protagonists Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) now have families.
“We have decided once again to push the limits of what cinema can do”he launched to the bosses of cinemas, gathered in Las Vegas for the annual gathering of Hollywood studios.
It was Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige who opened the presentation for Disney. Participants were thus able to discover long excerpts from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which comes out next week, where the wizard played by Benedict Cumberbatch battles flying octopuses and meets a teenage girl jumping from one world to another.
The film will be followed this year by two other super-productions dedicated to famous superheroes, Thor and Black Panther.
Pixar unveiled thirty minutes of its Buzz Lightningstory tracing the birth of the intrepid astronaut of the saga Toy Story, to which Chris Evans lends his voice. In the film, slated for release in June, Buzz is wracked with guilt after causing his fellow space rangers to sink on a hostile planet. To try to rescue them, he must project himself into the future, with a cat-robot as his companion.
CinemaCon also saw the presentation ofamsterdama romantic detective film set in the 1930s with a host of stars including Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Margot Robbie and Chris Rock.