There is a lot of interest in the creation of the film Avatar: The Way of Water since it is doing so well at the box office. Screenwriters for Avatar: The Way of Water Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver discussed how the entire trilogy was conceptualised over 10 years ago with filmmaker James Cameron in a location they refer to as “Avatar boot camp” in an interview with Variety. It’s quite safe to assume from their discussion that Cameron’s approach to crafting the next Na’vi narrative was just as ambitious as the films’ distinctive visual effects.
Every writer would join forces after hearing Cameron’s ideas and reading his notes on Pandora’s future and then propose ideas until they had the entire series planned out all the way to the very end of the final movie.
The crew also included fellow screenwriters Josh Friedman (Snowpiercer series) and Shane Salerno (Armageddon), and as the ideas began to flow, three sequels turned into four. Silver describes how the entire process came about:
