James Cameron absolutely wanted to shoot "Avatar 2" underwater

James Cameron has been preparing the sequel to

for

more than ten years

and for good reason.

Very quickly, the filmmaker realized that he could only accomplish his vision by filming underwater.

A real technical puzzle that obviously put off the technical teams as well as the studios.

But as usual, James Cameron was able to convince everyone to follow him, even though a new filming device had to be set up, resulting in huge costs.

"My colleagues in the production really campaigned very hard for us to do it 'dry', by tying people to cables," the filmmaker explained to

, disclosing a few shots from the shoot.

An evidence

“I said, 'This is not going to work.

It won't be realistic ”.

I even let them do a test where we ran dry, then we shot underwater, and it was a rough rendering of our aquatic catches.

[The dry catches] were nowhere near that, ”continued James Cameron.

Avatar 2

, due out in December 2022, and

slated for 2024, will mark the director's reunion with Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet.

And as with

,

and the first

, James Cameron is set to take cinematic entertainment to a new level with a new kind of 3D image.

We can't wait for December 2022 to see the results!

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