Mellan den första Avatar-filmen och uppföljaren The Way of Water gick det inte bara lång tid i vår verklighet, utan även i filmens universum. Jake Sully hade hunnit bli pappa med egna barn, och blivit ledare för sin stam under en längre period av fred.
När människorna återvände tvingades Sully dock slåss igen. Men som du kanske lade märke till i Avatar: The Way of Water gick han in i strid utan sitt vanliga riddjur, Toruk - den massiva röda ödlan som Sully rider i slutstriden i Avatar. Den besten återvänder dock i den tredje filmen, tack vare några sista-minuten-reshoots av James Cameron, som säger i en Variety-intervju:
"I don't really second guess my creative impulses. Unless, and this happened a little bit on 'Fire and Ash,' I'm looking at it going, you know, I'm not that much of a genius screenwriter. There's something a little off here in the storytelling. And so, our Toruk is back.
You know, the big bird that Jake rides [in the climax of the first Avatar]. I've always been waiting for the question, 'Why doesn't he just go get the big red bird and kill everybody like he used to do?' Because that doesn't exist in The Way of Water at all... It didn't exist in Fire and Ash. And I went, 'Oh, he's got to go get the bird.' Come on! I was saving it for a later film. I was like, 'Fuck that! He should get the bird. Get the Toruk.'"
Cameron bekräftade även att filmen blir ungefär tre timmar lång:
"Big surprise! But it works beautifully, and the actors were super-excited about that idea. It's like, oh, okay, that feels right, you know?"
Den tredje Avatar-rullen har biopremiär den 19 december.
