Josh Brolin turned down the prospect to work with James Cameron as a result of he didn’t just like the “material” of Avatar: The Method of Water.
To work with James Cameron has been a dream for a lot of for many years, particularly since he’s solely made three movies previously 25 years. However when Josh Brolin had the prospect to be directed by James Cameron on the Avatar sequel, he turned it down outright, promptly getting on the mistaken facet of the Oscar winner.
Showing on In Depth with Graham Bensinger (through EW), Josh Brolin remembered James Cameron taking the Avatar 2 rejection as a private slight. Now two years faraway from the discharge of The Method of Water, Brolin admits, “I understand it, because when you have something in your mind and you have a status and a power…you’re used to people feeling really grateful that you are offering it to them.” He added, “I don’t know if that’s the case with him because I don’t know him well enough. But it was based on the [project]. It wasn’t based on him.”
Needless to say 2009’s Avatar nonetheless stands because the highest-grossing movie ever, taking in near $3 billion worldwide. So that you knew that The Method of Water was going to get in that neighborhood, which it form of did, being simply one among simply six movies to ever make greater than $2 billion on the worldwide field workplace (sure, Titanic ranks there as properly). Josh Brolin in all probability might have talked himself right into a field workplace level, particularly if James Cameron was personally searching for him out. That Brolin turned down such a high-profile movie and a possible big payday as a result of he simply didn’t see the worth within the materials (regardless of Cameron operating the present) says lots about his character in that regard…Maybe it needed to do with the terrible dialogue?
However James Cameron and Josh Brolin are clearly doing simply high-quality with out one another, with the director aiming for extra Avatar films and Brolin leaning into two totally completely different sci-fi franchises: taking part in Thanos within the MCU and teaming together with his Sicario director Denis Villeneuve for his Dune movies.
What do you consider Josh Brolin turning down James Cameron? Did it matter or ought to he have taken the chance?
