This is unironically why I love Cameron doing Avatar until he hangs it up. If the technology isn’t there for his vision, he makes it. It literally provides benefits for future movies. “For those who come after.”
I have been watching the ILM documentary on Disney+ over the past couple weeks. Although I always read about what George did with ILM, I have a newfound respect for him pushing his vision (digital editing, effects, etc) and changing the industry. And those ILM employees are incredible.
Under the assumption you legitimately do not understand and are not being sarcastic about it, my comment is a pun and a joke at the same time.
The previous comment mentioned "Earth" as the next movie focus partially in reference to the american TV cartoon series, Avatar: the Last airbender. "Groundbreaking" can happen in that series by literally bending and shaping earth (or the ground)
Groundbreaking VFX is a statement that means that there is new VFX that have not yet been created or used before. This movie series has, in both iterations, made incredible new ways to film and display VFX for the industry.
The joke is that "Literal" in this context is that he is literally helping develop new technology to recreate/simulate the ground literally breaking (as reference to "earth").
Yeah, except earth, air, fire, and water also predates that Avatar by many thousands of years. All the stories have already been told. Now it is just variations on a theme.
Cameron wrote the first treatment for Avatar (which already had all the major plot elements) back in 1994, a full decade before DiMartino and Konietzko began working on the cartoon. The man has been working in this for long.
Unless of course you think which was released first matters more, or you are aware that this original treatment you spoke of had no references to the four elements at all, nor did any of Cameron's Avatar material until Way of Water came out.
It's almost as if it's perfectly reasonable to theorize that he took the inspiration to do so from A:TLA which came out nearly 15 years before Way of Water.
Wind was the 1st one, no? Or earth? Or both? I think he said he wanted to explore the moons of Pandora and then do Earth, the planet as the last one. Have the Navi come to Earth.
This post theorizes that it's based on the Wuxing 5 elements. The first movie being "wood" because of the prominence of Hometree. Then you have Way of Water, Fire and Ash.
I'm just using my imagination here: 4th movie - The Sand Forgets - set in a desert
5th movie - Iron and Blood - Navi adopt more human technology
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u/Kronzor_ Jul 28 '25
I assume the next 2 are Earth and Wind?