AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Production Designer On Bringing Pandora To Life And AVATAR 3 Plans (Exclusive)

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Production Designer On Bringing Pandora To Life And AVATAR 3 Plans (Exclusive)

We talk to Avatar: The Way of Water Production Designer Ben Procter about the evolution of Pandora and the RDA, that epic battle aboard the SeaDragon, and what fans can expect from 2025's Avatar 3...

By JoshWilding - Jun 22, 2023 11:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Avatar
Source: SFFGazette.com

Avatar: The Way of Water splashed down into theaters last December and instantly started breaking box office records. The movie also found plenty of awards success, with Production Designer Ben Procter among those who received Oscar nominations for their work on the sequel. 

While he's previously worked on the Transformers, TRON, and Superman franchises, Avatar is a series he's committed to in a big way. As well as serving as Production Designer on The Way of Water, Procter will lend his talents to Avatar 3 and Avatar 4 as well. 

With both Avatar movies now available on 4K, we recently had the opportunity to interview Ben about how his work on Avatar in the Art Department prepared him for the sequel (0:23), how the Na'vi culture and RDA had to evolve and change from movie to movie (3:47), and that epic final battle aboard the SeaDragon (10:20). 

The Production Designer also commented briefly on his Avatar 3 return, sharing an update on where things stand with the threequel. 

"We're working on [Avatar] 3 right now, trying to get it out the door with the visual effects [and] handoff process. Before anything could be rendered, Jim's got these cameras, right? That's where the shots come from [and is] a step that you know before you hand it off. We're busily improving and prepping the sets to get ready for that process."

"As far as teasing anything more, that is not in my job description [Laughs]. That's maybe in John Jon Landau's if you try, [but] that is not mine. All I can say is that we started on this in 2013, with a team that grew and contains so many wonderful people. We've been working on it as an overall world, with many interesting places to go and things to see from the very beginning."

"And so I'll just say, I can't tell you what's coming, but I can tell you a lot of cool stuff is coming..."

You can watch the full interview with Ben in the player below. 

Avatar: The Way of Water is now available on Digital and arrived on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD on June 20. Avatar was also made available on 4K for the first time on June 20.

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grif
grif - 6/22/2023, 11:05 AM
i still think its funny how they pushed back a sure thing in a3 for a movie that hardly anyone is interested in.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 6/22/2023, 12:12 PM
@grif - Which movie is that (the one no one is interested in)?
grif
grif - 6/22/2023, 1:31 PM
@Shivermetimbers - thunderbolts
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 6/22/2023, 1:36 PM
@grif - Oh...yeah. I mean, even a lower tier Marvel movie would still distract from Avatar enough that Cameron's ego would implode. He is very calculating with his release dates.
tylerzero
tylerzero - 6/22/2023, 11:17 AM
I had zero interest in paying to watch Avatar 2 in theaters. Glad I waited for it to be on streaming. The same will be said for Avatar 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 6/22/2023, 12:11 PM
@tylerzero - It was an awesome experience in the theater. I thought I had lost interest in this series too, since so much time had passed, but definitely worth going to the theater for.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/22/2023, 6:56 PM

It will be great if they can keep up the high quality visuals & beautiful scenery.

If would be really great if they made it a good movie this time.

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