James Cameron’s big sequel Avatar: The Way of Water is out July 6, 2023 released in home cinema on Blu-ray, DVD and in Ultra-HD. And even if you have already seen the bombastic second part in the cinema or streamed it on Disney+ last month, there is still a lot to discover on the discs, especially in the area of the more than 3 hours of bonus material. For example, how the director used insults to convince a star to take part.
Avatar 2 starts in home cinema: Buy Blu-ray, DVD and 4K
The adventures of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) on the strange planet Pandora continue: This time the two must protect their family from the returned, exploitative humans and flee to the water people of the Na’vi. If you want to bring Avatar: The Way of Water home with you, you have the following options:
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Avatar: The Way of Water launches in home theaters on Blu-ray and 4K
You can also purchase the Blu-rays and Co. at Mediamarkt * and Saturn *. The Blu-rays also include a Bonus disc with over 3 hours of additional materialwhich provides exciting insights into the making of the film and more.
What the bonus material reveals about Avatar: The Way of Water and Kiri insults
The many behind-the-scenes videos on the Avatar 2 Blu-ray give a comprehensive picture of the extensive filming, which went far beyond filming in a water tank. At Insights into the complicated process, the underwater scenes shooting with his stars and then implementing it digitally, alongside James Cameron we get a new appreciation for what we have seen. But also funny additional information enrich the look behind the scenes.
For example, the now 73-year-old actress tells Sigourney Weaverhow she came about, Jake Sully’s junior by almost 60 years fatherless adoptive daughter Kiri to play after her character Grace died in Avatar: Pandora:
I remember being with Jim [James Cameron] ate lunch. He started talking about this forest girl who had a special gift of connecting with living beings. And she is about 14 years old. He said: You and I know how immature you are, so I think you can handle this.
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Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water
While James Cameron’s insult was meant as a joke, it also contained a kernel of truth: He said that the occasionally childishly fooling around on set actress with whom he had already filmed Aliens 35 years before her euphoric youthful nature too have preserved in old age. After filming Avatar 2, he reiterated Sigourney Weaver’s casting as the right choice:
When you see Sigourney, she’s playing a character a quarter her age. She didn’t consciously change her voice for it, but unconsciously she was getting younger. It was crazy to watch. At a glance: These are the individual bonus featurettes on the Avatar 2 Blu-ray
The more than 3 hours of bonus material on the Avatar Blu-ray is divided into three large and several sub-chapters that illuminate different facets of sci-fi production:
Pandora’s box is opened
Pandora’s box continues to open
More bonus material:
With the Avatar sequel being pushed back a few years, the extras offer an opportunity to linger in the world of Pandora a little longer… and perhaps discover hints of what’s to come, if by “Swamps and deserts, mountains, ice and glaciers” the speech is.
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