The theatrical open of director James Cameron’s highly-anticipated Avatar sequel — a movie that can feature a excessive quantity of underwater scenes with its actors freediving — has been pushed aid from December 2021 to December 2022 because of this of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an Instagram post issued this week, Cameron writes:
“As pretty a few that you must possibly even presumably bear in mind, because of this of COVID-19, we had been forced into an abruptly prolonged prolong in starting the stay circulation filming we are at gift doing in Fresh Zealand. What most of you seemingly attain now not know is that the pandemic is gentle stopping us from being allowed to recommence most of our digital production work on stages in Los Angeles. That work is factual as crucial to the movies because the stay circulation work.
“Earlier than the COVID-19, the entirety was as soon as heading within the wonderful course to bring you the principle sequel in December of 2021. Unfortunately, because of this of the impact that the pandemic has had on our schedule it is miles now now not possible for us to carry out that date.”
Avatar 2 will feature many of the actors doing pretty a few underwater work, based on Cameron.
Amongst the movie’s crew is Efficiency Freediving Global Founder Kirk Krack, who spent two years engaged on the movie, and returned dwelling in dull 2019 after stints on sets in Los Angeles and Fresh Zealand.
Test out Kirk’s transient chat with DeeperBlue.com aid in December about his work on the movie here to boot to his “High Tip” in this week’s episode of the DeeperBlue podcast.
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John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first received the diving malicious program while in High College in Cairo, Egypt, the assign he earned his PADI Originate Water Diver certification within the Purple Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Hover of Costa Rica, and other locations together with a pool in Las Vegas serving to to spoil the sector file for the greatest underwater press convention.
