James Cameron Cut Out 10 Minutes of ‘Avatar 2’ Gun Violence Because It Made His Stomach Sick
“I look back on some films that I’ve made and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies...What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach." https://t.co/QyO53fCarW
- Variety (@Variety) December 27, 2022
The movie would've been 10 minutes longer if he hadn't cut scenes with gun violence in it. He no longer wants to fetishize guns giving the rampant gun violence in the U.S.
He says:"I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. You have to have conflict, of course. Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker."
He also looks back at the movies he used to make. "I look back on some films that I've made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. I don't know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of 'Terminator' movies 30-plus years ago, in our current world. What's happening with guns in our society turns my stomach."
"I'm happy to be living in New Zealand where they just banned all assault rifles two weeks after that horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago," Cameron added.
He also talks about a possible new Terminator movie. "If I were to do another 'Terminator' film and maybe try to launch that franchise again, which is in discussion, but nothing has been decided, I would make it much more about the AI side of it than bad robots gone crazy.";
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