James Cameron explains runtime of upcoming Avatar sequel that clocks in at more than three hours
dailymail.co.ukJames Cameron has revealed the reason for the long runtime of his Avatar sequel that clocks in at more than three hours.The 68-year-old director in the latest issue of Total Film coming out on Thursday said the runtime for Avatar: The Way Of Water was due to the sequel's emphasis on character.'The goal is to tell an extremely compelling story on an emotional basis,' Cameron said in an interview for the magazine's cover story.
Runtime reasoning: James Cameron, shown in February 2020 in Los Angeles, has revealed the reason for the long runtime of his Avatar sequel that clocks in at more than three hours'I would say the emphasis in the new film is more on character, more on story, more on relationships, more on emotion.
We didn't spend as much time on relationship and emotion in the first film as we do in the second film, and it's a longer film, because there's more characters to service.
There's more story to service,' he added.The sequel follows Jake Sully [Sam Worthington] and Neytiri [Zoe Saldana] who have five children after falling in love in the original film. 'People say, ''Oh my God, a family story from Disney?
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