As we see in The Way of Water, Jake Sully and the Na’vi have a moral standard that isn’t easily sacrificed. But as a movie, it may have been too much momentum too quickly, for a set of characters Cameron needed to reestablish as both dimensional and historical. Image: 20th Century StudiosĪs a comic, The High Ground is a thrilling interlude full of dialogue-less splash page action. While in The Way of Water the humans immediately arrive back to Pandora and scorch earth, The High Ground finds the Na’vi intercepting their ships with a plan to fight back. (“People ask, ‘Is it canon?’ I say, ‘Well it’s 100% Cameron,’” Smith says.) And one of the key moments, which spans 90 pages of the three-book series, is the Na’vi assault on the Pandora-bound drop ships commanded by General Frances Ardmore (played by Edie Falco in the movie). Using both the 100-page screenplay and the “Pandorapedia,” a Bible for all things Avatar, Smith worked hand in hand with Cameron to adapt The High Ground into a comic so that it clicked into the larger world of Avatar and naturally segue into The Way of Water. “The logical progression is to go chronological,” Smith says of development on the sequels, “So figured out day by day, basically, over the years, everything that happens leading up to The High Ground.” Which is why The Way of Water quickly chronicles the years we don’t see, a kind of prologue recap of a movie Cameron never actually put out. Avatar 2 took forever because James Cameron had to make sure Avatar 4 was ready to shoot
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