James Cameron says he cut 10 minutes of gun violence from Avatar 2 - “What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach”

While James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel Avatar: The Way of Water is ruling the theaters regardless of its three-hour long runtime, the director has now revealed that his visual spectacle would’ve been 10 minutes longer had he not cut out scenes showcases gun violence.

 

James Cameron says he cut 10 minutes of gun violence from Avatar 2 - “What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach”

 

“I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action,” Cameron told Esquire Middle East, according to Variety. “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.”

 

“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, Cameron said in context of the rampant gun violence in the U.S. “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,” he added. Speaking of Terminator, earlier this month, Cameron also discussed plans to return to the franchise which began in 1984, per reports.

 

“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,” the action filmmaker added.

 

Avatar: The Way of Water is now playing in theaters.

 

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