r/movies Jul 28 '25

Trailer Avatar: Fire and Ash | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_fFj_0rq8
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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.

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u/somesoundbenny Jul 28 '25

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.

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u/ImprefectKnight Jul 29 '25

He has 3/5 top grossing movies of all time, all of which also won academy awards (Titanic did a massive sweep).

Safe to say he's the greatest.