James Cameron has a message for Matt Damon – “Get over it!”
Damon famously turned down Cameron’s supply to star within the first Avatar film, and in return for 10 per cent of the field workplace.
The actor turned it down, however what he didn’t know, and what nobody might’ve identified on the time was that Damon was turning down $US291 million.
Asked by BBC Radio throughout the promotional tour of Avatar: The Way of Water if he had spoken to Damon just lately, Cameron chuckled after which added, “He’s beating himself up over this. And I really think, ‘Matt, you’re kind of like one of the biggest movie stars in the world, get over it’.
“But he had to do another Bourne film which was on his runway and there was nothing we could do about that. So he had to regretfully decline.”
Cameron additionally stated he can be blissful to have Damon make a cameo in a future Avatar sequel – “Must do it, we have to do it so the world is in equilibrium again, but he doesn’t get 10 per cent. F**k that.”
Damon revealed in 2021 onstage on the Cannes Film Festival, “I was offered a little movie called Avatar. James Cameron offered me 10 per of it. I will go down in history, you will never meet an actor who turned down more money”.
Avatar: The Way of Water is the primary of 4 mooted Avatar sequels Cameron has deliberate for the franchise. It comes 13 years after the discharge of the unique movie, which stays the highest-grossing film of all time, unadjusted for inflation, with a world field workplace of $US2.91 billion.
The sequel took in $US434 million worldwide on its opening weekend, which was simply shy of projections between $US450 million to $US550 million.
In Australia, the opening weekend field workplace, together with Wednesday night time previews, was $16.59 million. Fifty-two per cent of tickets bought have been for 3D classes.
Cameron has stated the movie would have to be the fourth or fifth highest grossing film of all time – roughly $US2 billion – earlier than it breaks even.
The manufacturing price range was reported to be greater than $US350 million whereas advertising and marketing prices might run a whole lot of thousands and thousands extra.
Avatar: The Way of Water picks up the story years afterward the planet of Pandora the place Sully and Neytiri at the moment are mother and father to a brood of children.
An outdated risk emerges and drives them to flee their forest residence and search refuge with Pandora’s water clans. But a now avatar-ed Quaritch chases them down, threatening to destroy the household Sully and Neytiri have constructed for themselves and the properties of their new pals.
Cameron and the filmmaking staff together with Weta Digital have spent years growing the expertise behind rendering CGI water.
Cameron has already filmed Avatar 3 and a section of Avatar 4.
The movie stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Cliff Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Brendan Cowell and Stephen Lang.
