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Avatar: A New Era -- Special Edition of 20/20

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Meet the man behind "Avatar: Fire and Ash," director James Cameron, who reveals what unlikely personal experiences inspired the "Avatar" film phenomenon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

0:23.6

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:26.6

Thanks, Canva.

0:29.6

Woo!

0:33.6

Ah!

0:34.6

Ah!

0:35.6

Our love will never fade away

0:41.3

with diamonds in the dark.

0:44.3

What we set out to do with Avatar

0:46.3

is not just tell a good story,

0:48.3

but to tell that story in terms that have a lot of impact

0:52.3

on the audience. We try to create this world and invite you into it and let you live in it.

0:58.0

Even through the place, even through the ashes in the sky, baby when we dream we dream as one. Now here's the latest avatar film, Fire and Ash.

1:14.2

The title alone, I was immediately drawn in,

1:17.2

Living Through Fire, Rebuilding, Resilience, and kind of this Phoenix attitude.

1:23.3

My goal was to see us through these fantasy characters

1:26.1

and see how it reflects back on us.

1:29.3

I sort of feel like the world of movie making and all its technology has finally caught up with Jim Cameron's brain.

1:37.3

It's like going through a portal into this other world.

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