Rick Jaffa, the writer of Avatar: The Way of Water, recently revealed that a significant space battle between the RDA and the Na’vi clan was cut from the film’s final script.
Set 14 years after the first film in which the Na’vi clan defeated the RDA; the sequel follows Jake Sully and his wife, Neytiri. They are forced to fight against the RDA once again, which has a new weapon in its arsenal.
Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) has mutated himself to take a Na’vi body but with the mind of a soldier. He leads a squad into Pandora with the sole motive of executing Jake Sully and his family.
Avatar: The Way of Water is sending shockwaves in the industry with its phenomenal success. Having already amassed almost $ 2 billion, the Cameron masterpiece seems all set to break every record in the book.
In a recent interview with EW, Jaffa said that he recalls a cut scene featuring Jake and Neytiri battling with the RDA in space.
According to the writer, Cameron liked the scene so much that he wrote an entire script featuring the battle sequence. But it was scrapped off because the script was not in harmony with the intended narrative.
However, the story is still there. It was given a new life and made into a comic book called Avatar: The High Ground. Read Jaffa’s full comment on this below:
There was one idea of a space battle with Na’vi. That idea got a lot of traction, and we talked a lot about it. We were struggling, though. How would that work with the story that we’re telling? Jim said, ‘Well, give me a few weeks.’ He went off and he wrote an entire script. And, by the way, a brilliant script.
At the end of the day, the whole script got thrown out because it just didn’t really work with the story we were telling.
What is next for Avatar?
Avatar: The Way of Water is well on course to break all box-office records in the genre. This is enough incentive for the makers to start thinking about the franchise’s future.
While announcing the sequel’s box-office numbers after hitting the $1.5 billion mark, Cameron confirmed that they have planned four sequels for Avatar (2009). Starting with Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022, each film will release two years after its predecessor, and the franchise will draw the line in 2028.
The upcoming films will showcase parts of Pandora that are yet to be explored. Cameron has already teased the existence of many new tribes in the ecosystem, including one called the Ash People.
The director explained that they will be very different from the Omaticaya Na’vi and Metkayina Na’vi as seen in the first two installments. While both the tribes have been benevolent and showed the positive side of the clan, the Ash People will showcase a darker Na’vi.
Producer Jon Landau also teased that Neytiri, and her family will eventually leave Pandora and travel to Earth. These comments have raised the hype about the next sequel to an all-time high.
We know that James Cameron is an ardent environmentalist, and all his movies have an element of conservation in their theme. So, it is a no-brainer that the sequels will also deal with some burning issue concerning nature.
With the sequel set to hit the theaters next year, fans must be patient to discover what Cameron and his crew do with the Sully family.
About Avatar
Avatar (marketed as James Cameron’s Avatar) is a 2009 American epic science fiction franchise whose first part was directed, written, and produced by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. The second film in the franchise is due to release in 2022.
The film is set in the mid-22nd century when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor.
Jake, who is paraplegic, replaces his twin on the Na’vi inhabited Pandora for a corporate mission. After the natives accept him as one of their own, he must decide where his loyalties lie.
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