Early look at 3D sequel makes a splash, while Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge tease Indiana Jones 5 and there’s a taste of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Few people will forget the first time they saw the original Avatar in 3D, the gorgeous, verdant alien rainforests of Pandora popping out of the screen as if every viewer in the auditorium had just been fitted with 31st century tech upgrades to finally allow ourselves to see the full picture. And yet pre-release hype for James Cameron’s forthcoming sequel to the highest-grossing film of all time, Avatar: The Way of Water, has been bogged down with a general sense that we have seen this all before, that a return to the world of the N’avi is less exciting than it was in 2009, when Cameron’s fantasy epic seemed primed to usher in a whole new universe of stereoscopic film-making.
At Saturday’s D23 panel for Disney offshoots Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox, audiences were treated to the world’s first glimpse of actual footage from the movie itself. A giant Cameron – the film-maker is currently in New Zealand finishing the movie – gazed down from the big screens on an auditorium of 7,000 people at the Anaheim Convention Centre in Southern California, while cast members Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), Sam Worthington (Jake Sully), Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang talked about the new movie’s focus on the importance of family. Then the footage was unleashed, and all of a sudden we were reminded of exactly why Avatar made such a buzz in the first place: that glorious supercharge to the senses that comes from 3D film-making zooming above the stratosphere.
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