James Cameron threw an 'Avatar 2' script that he wrote in an year

Filmmaker James Cameron said that before Avatar The Way of Water there was a full Avatar 2 screenplay that was written and then thrown into the trashIt turns out that at least an entire year of the 13year gap between 2009s Avatar and 2022s The Way of Water was spent on a screenplay that will never see the light of dayWhen I sat down with my writers to start Avatar 2 I said we cannot do the next one until we understand why the first one did so well Cameron told The Times UK report VarietyWe must crack the code of what the hell happenedCameron and his team came to the following conclusion All films work on different levels The first is surface which is character problem and resolution The second is thematic What is the movie trying to say But Avatar also works on a third level the subconscious I wrote an entire script for the sequel read it and realised that it did not get to level three Boom Start over That took a yearDuring an appearance on The Marianne Williamson Podcast last year Cameron elaborated more on this third level that he believes allowed Avatar to become the highestgrossing movie of all time at the worldwide box officeThere was a tertiary level as well It was a dreamlike sense of a yearning to be there to be in that space to be in a place that is safe and where you wanted to be Cameron saidWhether that was flying that sense of freedom and exhilaration or whether its being in the forest where you can smell the earth It was a sensory thing that communicated on such a deep level That was the spirituality of the first filmCameron revealed in the same interview that he nearly fired his Avatar sequel writers because they were initially so dead set on creating new stories as opposed to figuring out the DNA that made the first movie a recordbreakerAlso ReadAvatar The Way of Water Teaser James Camerons juggernaut promises a breathless cinematic experienceWhen I sat down to write the sequels I knew there were going to be three at the time and eventually it turned into four I put together a group of writers and said I dont want to hear anybodys new ideas or anyones pitches until we have spent some time figuring out what worked on the first film what connected and why it worked Camerons saidThey kept wanting to talk about the new stories I said We arent doing that yet Eventually I had to threaten to fire them all because they were doing what writers do which is to try and create new storiesI said we need to understand what the connection was and protect it protect that ember and that flameThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever