‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Producer Jon Landau Confirms the Return of Payakan: ‘He Will Be Back’

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ever), is making its way to digital on March 28 – pretty impressive, especially in our quick-fix era, for a movie that opened before Christmas.In the sequel, Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) are forced to retreat from their home after the evil corporation RDA returns to Pandora.

They flee with their extended family (including Sigourney Weaver, playing the teenage Na’vi daughter of her character from the first movie), take refuge with the reef people and realize that, no matter where they are, the RDA will find them.It’s a thrilling, emotional follow-up and one that clearly resonated with audiences.

And it’ll be nice to be able to watch the movie anytime you want, especially since the release is festooned with new special features (get a glimpse of one of them above).We visited Lightstorm to check out the soundstages where they shot the film and chatted with producer Jon Landau about that photo of Kate Winslet, whether they knew Payakan was going to be the breakout character (“It’s too painful”) and the status of other Cameron movies that have yet to make it to home video.There’s a shot that has been circulating of Kate Winslet underwater with these flags.

What was that about?Look, I think what what’s interesting is on the surface, it’s a scene that was cut from [the sequel].