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Avatar creator James Cameron knows the upcoming Fire & Ash will be a hit because it reduced his wife to tears for hours
"She bawled for four hours," says James Cameron, the man who made the world cry with Titanic.
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James Cameron is pretty sure that he’s onto a tearjerking winner with the third Avatar movie, due in theaters this holiday season. How does he know? Well, he showed a rough cut of the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash to his wife as an early Christmas present a few months ago, and she couldn’t talk to him for the rest of the night.
Talking to Empire magazine about the third movie in the Pandora-set series, the writer/director said, “My wife watched the whole thing from end to end — she had kept herself away from it and I wasn’t showing her bits and pieces as we went along. This was December 22nd… She bawled for four hours.”
Yes, that’s right: four hours. And when he says she “bawled,” he means it: “She kept trying to get her shit back together so she could tell me specific reactions, and then she’d just tear up and start crying again. Finally, I’m like, ‘Honey, I’ve got to go to bed. Sorry, we’ll talk about it some other time.’”
Putting aside Cameron’s seemingly brusque bedside manner — James, if you made her cry, you don’t leave her to keep going while you head to bed, you know better than that — the man behind the previous two Avatar movies (as well as The Terminator franchise, Titanic, and the oft-forgotten True Lies) says that Suzy Amis Cameron’s reaction is likely to be a sign of what audiences should be expecting to feel later this year: “She’s a pretty good bellwether,” he argued. “She called the ball on Titanic and Avatar and Avatar 2. So I trust her heart on it.”
Start preparing your tear ducts. Avatar: Fire and Ash will be in theaters December 19.
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