While the first installment of Avatar hits theaters this Wednesday, James Cameron recently opened up about the film’s pre-production and the relentless controversy that allowed him to convince the studio.
Even today, and since its release in 2009, it is simply the biggest success in the history of cinema.
However, before he could embark on the great adventure of Avatar, James Cameron had to convince a producer to let him go to the planet Pandora with him. Having already achieved real success at the box office with Aliens, Terminator 2 and especially the monumental Titanic, he really had to make his case.
“We argued about some things. For example, the studio felt the film should have been shorter and there were too many flight sequences… what people call banshee.”– said James Cameron to the microphone recently New York TimesEchoes of flying dragons harnessed by heroes.
To defend his project, Cameron finally resorted to drastic measures and cited the triumph of his last film: the epic of a certain ocean liner, which collected more than 2 billion dollars worldwide.
“There’s a point where I just set the boundaries and said to them, ‘You know what? I did Titanic. This building in which we meet, this new half-billion-dollar complex in your studios, was paid for by the Titanic. This, so I will . Later they thanked me.”
In the face of this unstoppable argument, studio executives did indeed approve of Cameron’s new dream. The result, we know: $2.847 billion worldwide, the biggest hit of all time, and four sequels are officially in the works.
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