Avatar: The Way of Water part 2
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| Directed by | James Cameron |
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| Based on | Characters by James Cameron |
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| Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
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| Music by | Simon Franglen |
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Running time | 192 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $350–460 million[2][3] |
| Box office | $889.4 million[4][5] |
Avatar: The Way of Water part 2 is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver from a story the trio wrote with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment and TSG Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Studios, it is the sequel to Avatar (2009) and the second installment in the Avatar film series. Cast members Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, and Matt Gerald reprise their roles from the original film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in an additional role.[6] New cast members include Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, and Jemaine Clement. In the film, Jake Sully (Worthington) and his family, under renewed threat from humans, seek refuge with the Metkayina clan of Pandora.
Cameron stated in 2006 that he would like to make sequels to Avatar if it was successful, and he announced the first two sequels in 2010, following the widespread success of the first film, with the first sequel aiming for a 2014 release.[7][8] However, the addition of two more sequels, for a total of five Avatar films, and the necessity to develop new technology in order to film performance-capture scenes underwater, a feat never accomplished before, led to significant delays to allow the crew more time to work on the writing, preproduction, and visual effects.[9] The filming process, which occurred simultaneously with a currently untitled third film, began in Manhattan Beach, California, on August 15, 2017. The filming location moved to Wellington, New Zealand, on September 25, 2017, and concluded in late September 2020 after three years of shooting. With an estimated budget of $350–460 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made.[2][3]
Following repeated delays in the expected release schedule, Avatar: The Way of Water premiered in London on December 6, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 16, 2022. The film has grossed over $889 million worldwide, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2022. Critics praised the film for its visual effects and technical achievements but criticized the plot and runtime.[10] Organizations such as the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Avatar: The Way of Water as one of the top ten films of 2022. The film also received numerous other accolades, including nominations for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director at the 80th Golden Globe Awards.
Plot
More than a decade after the Navi repelled the human invasion of Pandora,[a] Jake Sully lives as chief of the Omaticaya clan and raises a family with Neytiri, which includes sons Neteyam and Lo'ak, daughter Tuk, adopted daughter Kiri (born from Grace Augustine's inert avatar), and a human boy named Spider, the son of Colonel Miles Quaritch who was born on Pandora and was unable to be transported to Earth in cryostasis due to his young age. To the Na'vi's dismay, the humans return and erect a new main operating base named Bridgehead City to prepare Pandora for colonization, as Earth is dying. Among the new arrivals are recombinants, Navi avatars implanted with the minds and memories of deceased RDA marines, with Quaritch's recombinant as their leader.
Jake initiates a guerilla campaign against the RDA supply lines. Quaritch and his recombinants conduct a counterinsurgency mission against Jake, capturing his children. Jake and Neytiri arrive and free most of them, but Spider is taken by Quaritch, who recognizes him as his son. He decides to spend time with him in order to draw Spider on his side, and in turn, Spider teaches Quaritch about Navi culture and language. Aware of the danger Spider's knowledge of his whereabouts poses to their safety, Jake and his family exile themselves from the Omaticaya and retreat to the Metkayina reef people clan at Pandora's eastern seaboard, where they are given shelter, even though some tribesmen consider them to have "demon blood" for their genetic human heritage. The family learns the ways of the reef people, Kiri develops a spiritual bond with the sea and its creatures, and Lo'ak befriends Tsireya, the daughter of clan chief Tonowari and his wife Ronal.
Lo'ak gets into a fight with Tsireya's brother Aonang. When he returns to apologize at Jake's insistence, Aonang and his friends entice him to a trip into the territory of a dangerous sea predator and leave him stranded. Lo'ak is saved by and befriends Payakan, a tulku, an intelligent and pacifistic cetacean species whom the Metkayina consider their spiritual family. Upon his return, Lo'ak takes the blame on himself, winning Aonung's friendship, but is told that Payakan is an outcast among his species. On a trip to the Metkayina's Spirit Tree, Kiri links with it to meet her mother but suffers a violent seizure. She is healed by Ronal, but when Jake calls Norm Spellman and Max Patel for help, Quaritch is able to track them to the archipelago where the reef people live. Bringing Spider with him, he commandeers a whaling vessel that is hunting talks to harvest their brain enzymes for creating anti-aging remedies called amrita. Quaritch begins to brutally question the indigenous tribes about Jake's location; when this proves fruitless, he orders the whaling crew to wantonly kill tulkuns in order to draw Jake out. Lo'ak mentally links with Payakan and learns that the tulku was cast out because he went against the ways of his species and attacked the whalers who killed his mother.
When the Metkayina learns of the tulku killings, Lo'ak takes off to warn Payakan, followed by his siblings, Tsireya, Aonang, and Roto. They find Payakan being chased by the whalers, and Lo'ak, Tsireya, and Tuk are captured by Quaritch. With their children in danger, Jake, Neytiri, and the Metkayina set out to confront the humans. Quaritch forces Jake to surrender, but upon seeing Lo'ak imperiled, Payakan attacks the whalers, triggering a fight that kills most of the crew and critically damages the vessel, causing it to sink. Neteyam rescues Lo'ak, Tsireya, and Spider, but is fatally shot. Jake faces Quaritch, who uses Kiri as a hostage. When Neytiri does the same with Spider, Quaritch at first denies his relationship with him but desists when Neytiri cuts Spider across the chest.
Jake, Quaritch, Neytiri, and Tuk end up trapped inside the sinking vessel. Jake strangles Quaritch into unconsciousness and is rescued by Lo'ak and Payakan, while Kiri summons sea creatures to help her save Neytiri and Tuk. Spider finds and rescues Quaritch, but renounces him for his cruelty and rejoins Jake's family. After Neteyam's funeral, Jake informs Tonowari and Ronal of his decision to leave the Metkayina. Tonowari, however, respectfully identifies him as part of the clan and welcomes his family to stay. Jake and his family accept and forge a new life at sea, with Jake vowing to keep fighting the human invaders.
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Cast
- Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, a former human who fell in love with Neytiri and befriended the Navi after becoming a member of the Avatar Program, eventually taking their side in their conflict with humans and leading them to victory. He left his human body to permanently become one of the Navy and is now chief of the Omaticaya.[11][12]
- Zoe Saldaña as Neytiri, daughter of the previous clan chief, future Tsahìk of the clan, and Jake's mate.[11][12]
- Sigourney Weaver as Kiri, Jake, and Neytiri's adopted teenage daughter.[13] Weaver originally appeared in the first film as Dr. Grace Augustine. Although both Weaver and Cameron confirmed that she would return in the sequels, she stated in 2014 that she would not play the same character.[6][14][15] Like most of the cast, she learned free-diving for the film and filmed scenes underwater.[16]
- Weaver also reprises her role as Dr. Grace Augustine, a human scientist who takes the side of the Navi and dies during the conflict. Her Navi avatar is revealed to have birthed Kiri despite her death. She appears in this film in a video recording and in a spiritual vision where she meets with Kiri.
- Stephen Lang is Colonel Miles Quaritch, a human who led the security forces of the RDA, the human organization colonizing Pandora, in their conflict with the Navi.[17] After being killed by Neytiri in the first film, he has been resurrected as a Recombinant, described as "avatars embedded with the memories of human[s]",[17], and seeks revenge. Cameron stated in 2010 that Lang would return in the first three sequels, stating, "I'm not going to say exactly how we're bringing him back, but it's a science fiction story, after all. His character will evolve into really unexpected places across the arc of our new three-film saga."[18][19] He later stated that Quaritch would act as the main antagonist once again, in all four sequels.[20][21] Lang also plays Quaritch in a recording made to fill his Recombinant in on what happened.
- Kate Winslet as Ronal, a free diver of the Metkayina and Tonowari's wife, who is pregnant.[22][23] Winslet called Ronal "a pivotal character in the ongoing story" but also "relatively small compared to the lengthy shoot" since shooting all her scenes only took a month.[24] It marks her first time working with performance capture, and motion capture altogether. She, like most of the cast, also had to learn free diving for the film; while filming an underwater scene, she held her breath for over seven minutes, a new record for any film scene shot underwater.[24][25][26][16]
- Cliff Curtis is Tonowari, the chief of the reef people clan of Metkayina and Ronal's husband.[27][28][29]
- Joel David Moore as Dr. Norm Spellman, a former member of the Avatar Program who chose to side with the Navi in the first film.[30]
- CCH Pounder as Mo'at, the Omaticaya's Tsahìk, and Neytiri's mother.[31][32]
- Edie Falco as General Frances Ardmore, the commander in charge of the RDA's interests.[33]
- Brendan Cowell as Captain Mick Scoresby, the head of a private sector marine hunting vessel on the planet of Pandora.[34]
- Jemaine Clement as Dr. Ian Garvin, a marine biologist.[35]
- Jamie Flatters as Neteyam, Jake and Neytiri's first son and oldest child.[36][37]
- Britain Dalton as Lo'ak, Jake and Neytiri's second son.[36][37]
- Chloe Coleman as young Lo'ak
- Trinity Jo-Li Bliss as Tuktirey ("Tuk"), Jake and Neytiri's eight-year-old daughter and their youngest child[36][37][38]
- Jack Champion as Miles Quaritch Socorro ("Spider"), the teenage son of Quaritch born in Hell's Gate (the human base on Pandora in the first film) who was rescued and adopted by Jake and Neytiri after they had previously killed his father, who "prefers his time in the Pandoran rainforest".[36][37][39]
- Bailey Bass as Tsireya ("Reya"), a graceful and strong free diver of the Metkayina and Tonowari and Ronal's daughter.[36][37]
- Filip Geljo is Aonung, a young male hunter and free diver of the Metkayina and Tonowari and Ronal's son.[36][37]
- Duane Evans, Jr. as Rotxo, a young male hunter and free-diver of the Metkayina.[36][37]
- Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge, the former corporate administrator for the RDA mining operation.[40]
- Dileep Rao is Dr. Max Patel, a scientist who worked in the Avatar Program and came to support Jake's rebellion against the RDA in the first film.[41]
- Matt Gerald as Corporal Lyle Wainfleet, a mercenary for the RDA in their war against the Navi who was previously killed by a hammerhead titanothere and was revived as a Recombinant. Gerald was announced to reprise his role in August 2017.[29]
Additionally, Alicia Vela-Bailey appears, uncredited, as Zdinarsk, a Recombinant and member of the 1st Recom Squadron. Vela-Baily previously portrayed Ikeyni, the leader of the Na'Vi Ikran Clan, in the original Avatar. She is also featured as a stunt performer in both films.[42][43] CJ Jones appears, also uncredited, as a Metkayina interpreter of the Navi sign language he created.[44]
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