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Before #Avatar came out in 2009, James Cameron gave Sam Worthington some advice: “He said, ‘When the movie comes out just take yourself away, out of the world for a bit. Go live on an island or go up a mountain and try not to read anything.’ And I did.”
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By the time Worthington returned from a snowy getaway with friends — no talk of box office receipts allowed — the film was a massive global hit: “I pretty quickly realized my life had gone 180.”
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Ahead of the film’s theatrical rerelease before its long-awaited sequel hits the big screen, Worthington, producer Jon Landau and star Stephen Lang spoke with @jenyamato.
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While making the first “Avatar,” Cameron told Lang he’d be back for the sequels: “He said, ‘You know, you’ll be coming back.’”
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“He had a beer in his hand and I had a beer in my hand. I thought it might be the beer talking,” Lang says of his conversation with Cameron, “but if you know Jim, you know Jim doesn’t say things lightly.”
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Landau confirms that Cameron fielded suggestions to alter or add things to #Avatar for its theatrical rerelease, as filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have done retroactively to their own classics.
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“To us and to Jim, this was the movie he wanted to release. It wasn’t like we didn’t get to do something," says Landau. "When you have an orchestra and it’s playing beautiful music, don’t try to add another instrument.” latimes.com/entertainment-…

“It’s no different than when we originally rereleased ‘Titanic,’” he says. “We didn’t add anything. ‘Titanic’ is ‘Titanic.’ ‘Avatar’ is ‘Avatar.’”

Read @jenyamato's full interview with the #Avatar team. latimes.com/entertainment-…