A Behind The Scenes Look At "Avatar: The Way Of Water"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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After many doubted it would capture the magic of the first film, since its theatrical release last December, "Avatar: The Way Of Water" has gone on to make over $2 billion worldwide and garner four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects. The Next Best Picture team was honored to speak with Oscar-nominated Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Baneham (conducted by Zoe Rose Bryant), Production Designers Ben Proctor and Dylan Cole (conducted by Ema Sasic), Sound Mixer Julian Howarth and Sound Editor Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (conducted by Will Mavity). We hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest films of 2022. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are our interviews with the Academy Award nominees for Avatar of the Way of Water.
0:08.8	First up, we have Zoe Rose Bryant's interview with the visual effects supervisor Richard Bainham.
0:13.6	Then Emma Sassick's interview with the production designers Ben Proctor and Dylan Cole.
0:19.3	And then Will Mavity's interview with sound mixer Julian Hallworth and sound editor Gwendolyn Yates Whittle. We hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at Avatar, the Way of Water. Why do you come to us? I just want to keep my family safe.
0:45.3	Treat them as our brothers and sisters.
0:49.3	Teach them our ways.
0:52.3	Keep up forest, boy! If you want to live here, you have to ride.
0:57.7	Let's do it.
1:03.9	Just breathe.
1:05.9	So, well, yeah, I'm Zoe Rose Bryant from Next Best Picture, so happy to be talking with you today.
1:11.6	And lovely to meet you, Zoe.
1:13.2	So I think the first thing I wanted to ask was, I know that this has been a sequel in development for a very long time.
1:20.4	That's an understatement.
1:21.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:22.6	I was curious how long you have been actually working on it, you know, like when the development for you started.
1:29.3	Oh, well, okay. So now we're going back. So I started this process in 2005. So that'll give you some context when we were doing dev for the first movie.
1:41.9	I met Jim back then and he was midway through at Test.
1:47.4	And it was with ILM originally.
1:49.5	And we were fortunate enough to work with ILM on the first movie and the second
1:53.3	movie as well.
1:54.7	So we had some great participation there.
1:57.8	But Weddow became the primary vendor.
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