Why Edward Norton rejected the sci-fi continuation of James Cameron

Edward Norton is reportedly friends with director James Cameron, but they only worked once on the film: “Alita: Battle Angel,” which Cameron wrote and produced, and in which Norton made a comer. Cameron also suggested Norton’s opportunity to be in an “avatar”: why did Norton give the opportunity to visit Pandora?

I still keep hope for the continuation of “Alita” -I and all the so -called “alite army”. The first movie was a pleasant surprise and there is a lot More about Yukita Kisiro’s “combat angel” Adapt. The film teased that Alita (Rosa Salazar) will finally face face to face with Desty Nova (Norton’s character), her flanu loving the mad scientist nemesis.

In the 2019 director Digital Spy: “(Cameron and I) both knew Ed. None of us worked with Ed. But Ed is really smart. Like Jim, he is very, very intelligent.” While Norton is just new in several short shots, his casting emphasizes the importance of the character. Norton is not only an actor A-list, but also plausible as the most intelligent person in the world. Rian Johnson deftly played with the presence of Norton on the screen, throwing it like Faux-Genius Tech Millese Miles Bron in “Glass”

“Alita” was a spare project for James Cameron. For the first time he met Mangay Chisir in the 1990s Guillermo -DelCameron spent many years trying to adapt it to the movie. But he eventually had to choose between the director “Water” and “Alita”, and so he left the latter in Rodriguez’s hands. Then he tried to force Norton to join his other sci-fi blockbuster, but the actor painted a solid line in the sand. Norton explained in an interview with 2019 with Total Film:

“I’m friends with Jim (Cameron), and I really admire and love it. So when he wanted me to do something in” Avatar 2 “, I basically said to him,” If I don’t . I don’t do it.

I have the feeling that Norton isn’t just “admired” Cameron for my movies. Both men are one of the loudest environmentalists in Hollywood. Cameron is particularly passionate about the ocean (it is lunar as a underwater researcher) and called its veganism as a political act to reduce the dependence on the release of carbon, the resource that drains the meat industry. Norton (whose father was an ecological lawyer) was also appointed by the UN Ambassador of Goodwill on Biodiversity.

The Avatar films are strongly pro-ecological and opposed to the military-industrial complex. In two films released so far, humanity is a villain; We have already ruined the land, and now we want to destroy another natural paradise with colonization and industrialization. Of course, Norton prefers Nausa, given that his own political views are so close to this Cameron issue.

Now, obviously, Cameron failed to enter Norton as a “water”. The third movie “Avatar” – “Fire & Ash” – is also planned for the next December, so it probably doesn’t have enough time to add Norton. But Cameron has already written at least two more films “Avatar”, with ideas to “Avatar 7” 7. “Probably he can make room for Na’vi Ed Norton in one of these films? I can only wonder how these two Very similar men (both hot artists and controls) will work together on the set. Norton’s entry than Marvel Studios was on “incredible khalk”? Like the fate of this “alite”, it can go anyway.