Riding shotgun into Pandora is Jon Landau, a former 20th Century Fox executive who steered the studio in the ‘90s. In doing so, the director and his army of artists paved the roads other filmmakers traveled for over a decade. For his movie, Cameron strove to inch past the bleeding edge of cinema to bring Pandora to life.
Its technical artistry is equally intricate.
Written and directed by James Cameron, the original sci-fi epic Avatar - set in a lush garden world called Pandora, home to wild beasts and towering blue aliens - encompasses complex but universal themes, from the careless greed of imperialism to love transcending cultural barriers. And we set the bar for ourselves higher and higher each time we make a movie.” “You don’t want makeup on nine-foot characters. “We have a world we can’t possibly build and experience,” Landau tells Inverse. Thirteen years later, producer Jon Landau thinks Avatar: The Way of Water will have a similar effect thanks to the film’s many technological breakthroughs. When Avatar opened in 2009 and became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, it was both the vanguard of cinema’s technological present and a portent of its future.
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