James Cameron Says the ‘Avatar’ Ride at Walt Disney World Prepped Audiences for the Sequel: ‘We Snuck a Couple of Ilu In There’
thewrap.comThe Walt Disney World attraction Flight of Passage features some creatures in this movie and the beach setting. Was that ride priming the pump for “Avatar: The Way of Water?”We knew what we were doing on the movie and at Lightstorm, my company, a lot of the creative people that were about to move onto “The Way of Water” worked on the ride Disney’s group, Imagineering.
We actually merged the two groups together, the Imagineering team with the robotics and the show ride staff, and our team for the film software and the design.People that go to this movie who have been on the ride are going to say, “Oh yeah.”“Oh yeah, I’ve seen some of this stuff.” Yeah.
We even stuck a couple of Ilu in there, the long-neck creatures. If you look as you’re flying out over the ocean, before you go through the big wave, there’s a couple of Ilu jumping over on the left.You’ve said that you could’ve just been an adventurer and not returned to make movies.
What about these stories unlocked the desire to come back?I think I looked at a couple of things – one, the continuation of our creative family that we had developed when we made the first film and there was a longing, yearning to come back together and do it all again and continue what we’d created.
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