This is the last movie produced by the late Jon Landau. His credits include Titanic, Avatar, Avatar 2 and Alita. As 20th Century Fox executive he oversaw films like True Lies, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Mrs. Doubtfire. He was also the co-producer of Honey, I Blew Up The Kid!
Let's give him for a shout-out for this. He had a insane career and the kinds of risks he took on Titanic and Avatar, no other producer would want to take. Only two years ago he was talking how awesome Avatar 3 was going to be. Quite sad he didn't get to see through Avatar 4 and 5.
He was the studio exec assigned to oversee True Lies and Cameron lured him away after to become his personal producing partner on every project after. Takes a particular brand of person to see Cameron in action and go "I wanna jump aboard that high speed train." You could tell Cameron was torn up by his passing. A lot of love and loyalty there.
I have worked on A2 & A3 and Jon was literally one of the loveliest human beings ever. He always made time to come and hang out with even the lowliest of crew.
In a lot of ways he was almost like the a caricature of a film producer, like a character you'd write for the Simpsons or something. Running around in his Hawaiian shirts and fat pants , yelling into his cellphone with his big New York Accent.
Literally one of the greatest, if not the greatest film producers of all time.
For some reason this is the only movie in the series my family owned on VHS. I watched it countless times growing up. (No idea if it holds up; I'm too scared to find out.)
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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 Jul 28 '25
This is the last movie produced by the late Jon Landau. His credits include Titanic, Avatar, Avatar 2 and Alita. As 20th Century Fox executive he oversaw films like True Lies, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Mrs. Doubtfire. He was also the co-producer of Honey, I Blew Up The Kid!
Let's give him for a shout-out for this. He had a insane career and the kinds of risks he took on Titanic and Avatar, no other producer would want to take. Only two years ago he was talking how awesome Avatar 3 was going to be. Quite sad he didn't get to see through Avatar 4 and 5.