James Cameron says ‘Avatar’ ‘looks better than it ever did’ as film gears up for re-release in theatres – Times of India

Joined by his leading cast, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez and Stephen Lang, the director sat down for a global panel discussion where they got candid about the film and how it is ‘looking better’ than ever before.

“If you’re under 22 or 23 years of age, it’s very, very unlikely that you’ve seen the film in a movie theatre, which, in a way, kind of means you haven’t seen the film the way we intended it to be seen,” Cameron said while revealing that the movie was made to be watched on the big screen, in the 3D format.

Revealing what’s in store for the fans, he said, “We authored the film for the big screen in 3D, and now we’ve remastered it in 4K and high dynamic range and some 48 frames per second sections in the film. It’s looking better than it ever looked.”

The director also shared that he and his entire cast watched the new re-mastered movie and said, “It blew us away. We were impressed with how the film looked and the physical experience of the film.”

Sam Worthington, who plays one of the lead roles in the film, revealed how the film’s story is a timeless one. Using his character Jake Sully as his reference, he explained, “This is a story about a young guy that went to another planet, and he was looking for something — looking to belong — and he found in another culture that didn’t he really know anything about. Personally, I think that sense of belonging permeates with all of us. We’re all kind of looking for our own little plan, our own clique, our group of people that can comfort us and give us confidence and then we can learn from, and I think there’s something in that’s very interesting.”

Cameron added, saying that the human experiences found within the film helped people around the world relate to it in a better way. He explained, “I think when we’re kids, we just innately love nature — we love animals, we love being out in nature — and as our lives progress, we become more and more away from nature.”

He went on to add, “I think society at large anywhere in the world is suffering from nature deficit disorder of some kind to some degree. And I think that this movie puts us back into that childlike wonder about nature’s grandeur complexity and beauty.”

Zoe Saldana, who played the female lead, was asked about her experience watching the film for the first time on-screen. Best describing it as an “out of body experience” she also explained that it was perhaps because of how much she felt she had grown as an actor and a performer from start to finish of the production.

‘Avatar, which was originally released in 2009, earned 3 Oscar wins and 9 nominations. The movie went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time. It was however beaten by ‘Avengers: Endgame’ that took the crown for a few weeks until Cameron re-released ‘Avatar’ in China, which propelled it to the top once again with a total of $2.798 billion.

The next instalment of the franchise – ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’, which has been delayed several times, is now scheduled for release in December 2022.

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