Avatar 5 Script Made Stephen Lang Weep, Reveals the Actor

With Don’t Breathe 2 arriving in theaters August 13th, I recently spoke to Stephen Lang about making the Rodo Sayagues’ helmed sequel. While most of our conversation was about Don't Breathe, towards the end of the interview, we talked about James Cameron, the Avatar sequels, and Avatar 5. If you’re not aware, Cameron has previously announced that Lang is the villain in all four sequels.

Since I knew he wasn’t going to tell me anything that would spoil the storyline or plot, I decided to ask his reaction to reading the scripts and how Cameron was using technology to help make the sequels. Regarding his reaction after reading the scripts, Lang told me:

“When I finished the last script, I was weeping. I just thought it was so beautiful. Yeah, the final script because he's telling a great, great story, an original story, a beautiful, beautiful story, and I was just incredibly moved by it. I hope and I trust and believe that audiences will be, too, because one of the things that he does really, really well is he moves it from the page to the stage in a way that that is very literal. You know what I mean? You really see it. What you read is what you get from him, I think, and more.”

While he wouldn’t reveal what scene was being shot, Lang talked about the way Cameron is using technology and how he is always the smartest guy in the room:

“He's definitely pushing it big time on this one. I'm not giving away any trade secrets to say that, but I remember working on a sequence with him, there was an issue of scale going on. That’s all I’ll say. And it was defeating. It took and brought everything to kind of a halt. There was a problem that no one else recognized except him at the moment. So he had to come up with a solution. Anyway, we basically shut down or started working on something else. The next day, he came to me kind of really excited and said, 'I figured out the algorithm to do this.' He stared this algorithm and I'm looking at him thinking, 'What the hell are you talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about.' But he did. He created a problem ... there was a problem because he wanted a scene, something to happen, and then he solved it. He's been doing that for his entire career. And it's pretty cool, pretty amazing.”

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[EvanFowler]

You know what'd be a great way to promote Avatar 3-5?

*RELEASING AVATAR 2.*

[juneius_]

When they are talking about Avatar 5, I still be waiting for Avatar 2

[kylearking]

I hope that all the actors and crew stay in good health so that we can get to Avatar 5. Losing James Horner was such a tragedy. Hopefully his legacy lives on through the sequels.

[mezmerizedlifejay]

The power of Cameron's writing of characters. I imagine he's a clone and that's how he's back

[flaminflamango]

avatar 5? I feel like we missed a few chapters here

[KilliK]

cant wait for the new Avatar movies. the first one is a classic masterpiece, and the humongous success of the second one will guarantee the release of the rest of the sequels up to 5. the only problem is that it will take a considerable time until we experience all the great films that Cameron's imagination is preparing for us. but until then, IN THE KING WE TRUST!

[celebritiesthenandnow]

He was nominated for Broadway's 1991 Tony Award as best actor in a featured role - play for "The Speed of Darkness".

[masssojourner]

The current conditions of this nation makes me weep.

[Zynnie_the_Pooh]

I can't wait to find out what movies James Cameron "remade" with Avatar 2-5 considering the first one is just Sci-fi Dances with Wolves!

[bob-]

I’m sorry can somebody please remind me I’ve only seen avatar like 10 times didn’t this dude die in the first one????😂

[starsurvivor]

I can't believe we're talking avatar 4...hasn't it been over 10 years since the first one? Their really counting on 2 to be

[anthonybhola]

I know why he cried because he probably dies in number 5 just a hunch

[cmccorquodale]

Hot take: the fact he will get to 5 thinking people will adore 2, 3, 4 is honestly egotistical. Like I like the first 1 but man 5 movies..I get planning ahead but it's not really marketable like marvel, dc or star wars. The movie came out like 10 years ago.

[GarbageMemesTBH]

This seems the title of a satire post, like “Dennis Quaid WEPT after reading the script for Avengers 7”

[joshuaharmon]

The Avatar movie released so long ago. Way back then, Disney invested, thinking the franchise would be a smash hit. And sure, it performed very well in the box office. Like, VERY well. But, it's just been so long. The Avatar franchise is clearly dead. Making four sequels before even seeing how the second movie performs is foolish. They have absolutely no idea what the fanbase would want to see in a third fourth or fifth movie, they only know what the fans want from a second movie.
And those fans should have had their second movie a long time ago.
Sometimes, long waits still work. Incredibles 2 wasn't as magical as the first, but people still enjoyed it, and still want to see more. If Avatar 2 can pull off a similar trick, then making a third movie would make sense. But the problem still remains that the fan reaction to the second movie would be completely irrelevant, as all the sequels have already been planned out. It's like if Rowling had released the Philosoher's Stone Novel, then writing the rest of the Harry Potter series, but never releasing the second book for the public to read until AFTER Universal made an entire theme park section based on the first movie alone.

[silverblackguerrilla]

I can imagine. I wept after watching Avatar in the theaters because it sucked so badly. It was just a clear rip-off of the Smurfs.

[johngrayson]

I am not a James Cameron fan; I think he is one of the most overrated filmmakers working today. That said, the man is very smart.