By Back at the end of 2022, around the time of the release of “Avatar: The Way of Water,” a rumor cropped up suggesting filmmaker James Cameron handed in a nine-hour cut of “Avatar 3” to 20th Century Studios.
It was crazy at the time but it continued for a few months on. Now a new video of Cameron, speaking to Temple of Geek at the Saturn Awards the other week, has emerged and finally shoots down that talk.
Cameron seemingly attributes it to a misinterpreted quote – saying the nine-hour remark ties to the remainder of the overall saga as opposed to a single film – it’s not one nine-hour film but rather three films of around three hours each:
“By the way, can I just shoot something down right now that has been propagated. There is no nine-hour rough cut [of Avatar 3] … I would put a shotgun in my mouth if I ever did a nine-hour rough cut. No, what I said was its nine hours of material, meaning Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5 – that’s, you know, three hours a movie. Somehow that turned into a nine-hour – can you imagine?”
Cameron then jokes that producer Jon Landau “would shoot me” with Landau, standing next to him, piping up that he “would shoot himself”. Cameron has previously indicated that the third film’s shooting elements are essentially done with just a few pick-up shots to do.
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