2010-07-19, 09:00 AM
How exactly do you sell hollywood on a nine part series? Trilogies are doable.
There was no way to compress the entire 60 hours of the three avatar "books" into three 90 minute, or even 120 minute, movies, without doing what was done, and even less chance to turn all three books into a separate trilogy because the audiences wouldn't keep interested through three sets of two or three because there isn't enough plot resolution to make breaking points.
The absolute best he could've done is added 10 to 30 minutes to the movie and used it for pacing so the lines didn't feel like the whole movie was on fast forward.
There was no way to compress the entire 60 hours of the three avatar "books" into three 90 minute, or even 120 minute, movies, without doing what was done, and even less chance to turn all three books into a separate trilogy because the audiences wouldn't keep interested through three sets of two or three because there isn't enough plot resolution to make breaking points.
The absolute best he could've done is added 10 to 30 minutes to the movie and used it for pacing so the lines didn't feel like the whole movie was on fast forward.