Jeff Sneider, critic and columnist for LA Magazine, has appeared on one of the podcasts and reported that there is already a rough cut of Avatar 3 circulating around.
According to his sources, James Cameron would have presented a first version of the third part of the saga to Disney and would have done so in recent weeks.
Taking into account the advance with which Cameron works, it would not be strange, especially when the director has not stopped boasting that he has even shot scenes from Avatar 4.
But the main issue here is not in the existence of that rough cut, but rather in its duration.
According to Sneider, the first cut of Avatar 3 lasts 9 hours and would have caused a slight clash between Cameron and Disney.
Although all movies go through several montages that significantly reduce their length, the director would have asked the company to make the special effects for the whole 9 hours before ruling out anything.
"He insists on having the VFX of those 9 hours and on not working as before, which was choosing what he wants to keep and then doing the effects of that part," explains the reporter.
