• Producer Jon Landau has worked with James Cameron since "Titanic" (1997).

  • He was in Paris to present the first images of “Avatar, the waterway”.

  • He hopes viewers will forget the technology when they experience the film.

As the first

Avatar

hits theaters this Wednesday in a breathtaking new version, producer Jon Landau came to Paris to present the first images of

Avatar, James Cameron's Way of the Water

 , which will be in theaters on December 14 next.

Twenty minutes of total immersion and fabulous 3D shots of which a strict embargo prohibits revealing the details.

We can only say one thing: it's going to rock!



“I would like viewers to completely forget about technology when they see the film,” Jon Landau told

20 Minutes

.

The producer, who has collaborated with James Cameron since

Titanic

(1997) was able to follow all the changes in this area in the company of the filmmaker.

“I would call these changes evolution rather than revolution,” he says.

Fantastic creatures already give strong desire.

Films independent of each other

The action of

La Voie de l'eau

takes place ten years after

Avatar

.

“It is not essential to see the first film again, but it helps to get into the bath”, specifies Jon Landau.

And then we will not sulk his pleasure: the remastered version is so beautiful that it is hard to believe that the film was made thirteen years ago.

He and James Cameron waited until they had finished the scripts for the three sequels and shot a large chunk of those movies to release

The Way of the Water

so they knew exactly where they were going.

"The actors and the whole team know the fate of the characters," he explains.

But each film can be seen independently.

»

The images he came to show plunge the viewer back into the civilization of the Na'vis on the planet Pandora.

We find the Sully family and their children there for new adventures.

"The film is about adults but also about mixed-race teenagers who are looking for their place in the world", insists Jon Landau.

A theme that touches James Cameron as much as the total immersion of the public in his aquatic and magical universe.

“This film should encourage the public to return to cinemas, predicts the producer.

It is designed to deliver a sublime cinematic experience.

“We are all the more inclined to believe it since the rare sequences viewed left the first spectators in apnea, devoured by impatience to see the rest of this sequel.

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