Avatar 2's Emotional Tease Is The Most Exciting Story Hint So Far
Zoe Saldaña's Avatar 2 tease is the most promising sign yet from James Cameron's long-awaited sequel. It's no exaggeration to suggest Avatar changed the cinematic game upon release in 2009. Cameron's visuals were unlike anything seen before in a movie theater and spearheaded a regrettable wave of 3-D that failed to conjure the same sense of awe and wonder as Pandora. Having waited over a decade to release a sequel, Avatar 2 faces the challenge of dumbfounding audiences all over again, but given how far CGI effects have advanced during that time (digital de-aging is almost standard practice at this point), moviegoers will be harder to impress than Shania Twain.
Picking up 13 years after the previous Avatar movie ended, Sam Worthington's Jake Sully and Zoe Saldaña's Neytiri have started a family, but their peaceful life is disturbed when a ship from Earth arrives to once again deprive Pandora of its natural resources. The appearance of yet more human invaders pushes Jake and Neytiri's tribe to new locales of Pandora, where they encounter the aquatic Metkayina clan Kate Winslet's Ronal and Cliff Curtis' Tonowari belong to. Avatar 2's new cast members will be joined be the unexpected returns of Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine, and Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch.
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As Avatar 2's December 2022 premiere date edges gradually closer, Zoe Saldaña recently recalled to Kevin McCarthy how she was able to view 20 minutes of footage alongside Cameron… and both ended up in floods of tears. Now, obviously, Zoe Saldaña is not an objective voice in the Avatar 2 discussion. Not only is she emotionally tied to the characters and universe (James Cameron even
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