Much of the conversation about James Cameron’s long-awaited “Avatar: The Way of Water” has centered on its three-hour runtime, which has hardly stopped the film from topping box responsibility charts around the world. In a new interview with Esquire Middle East, Cameron spoke the film would’ve run 10 minutes longer had he not cut out scenes with gun violence. The filmmaker said he is no longer interested in fetishizing guns in his allotment scenes given the rampant gun violence in the U.S.
“I actually cut in 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action,” Cameron said. “I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. You have to have dispute, of course. Violence and action are the same getting, depending on how you look at it. This is the spot of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an allotment filmmaker.”
Cameron said sponsor in the interview, “I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a combine of ‘Terminator’ movies 30-plus years ago, in our unusual world. What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach.”
“I’m jubilant to be living in New Zealand where they just banned all assault rifles two weeks at what time that horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago,” Cameron added as an aside.
Given Cameron’s comments, it’s safe to assume that action scenes in “The Terminator” franchise will look a bit different necessity it ever return to the screen. The director recently made headlines on the “Smartless” podcast after teasing that a new “Terminator” movie is inhabit talked about. The franchise has experienced one box organization flop (“Terminator Genisys”) after another (“Terminator: Dark Fate”) in unusual years. “Dark Fate” was a particularly huge box organization bomb with just $261 million worldwide.
As Cameron said on the podcast: “If I were to do latest ‘Terminator’ film and maybe try to launch that franchise alongside, which is in discussion, but nothing has been allowed, I would make it much more about the AI side of it than bad robots gone crazy.”
“Avatar: The Way of Water” is now playing in theaters state.
