James Cameron has said he’d like to create a streaming cut for one of his future movies, but Avatar: The Way of Water isn’t that movie, according to producer John Landau.
James Cameron is no stranger to recutting his own movies, but it seems like Avatar: The Way of Water won’t be getting that treatment, despite rumors to the contrary. While Avatar 2 has dominated the box office since its Dec. 16 release, producer Jon Landau says theater-going audiences are seeing the definitive version of the film.
One of the inciting incidents for these rumors came from Cameron himself, saying how he’d like to make two versions of a movie in the future, a streaming version that runs six hours, and a theatrical version that’s closer to two hours. But Landau has some clarification for that too, along with updates on an Avatar 2 director’s cut.
“I think Jim is seizing on opportunities for other stories with two different cuts — the idea would be that you build a larger, epic narrative that can last six hours, and you pull a two-and-a-half-hour movie out of it,” Landau told Polygon in an interview.
