00:00It's a fluid process, right?
00:02The beautiful thing about performance capture
00:04is that we can reproduce any set or setting
00:07in the movie almost instantly, within an hour or so.
00:10We don't have to go back to a location.
00:12We don't have to go back to some huge built set that's been torn down.
00:16So after The Way of Water came out,
00:19there were certain things that emerged
00:21that required maybe a bit of clarification.
00:24And there were some things that I pushed out of
00:26The Way of Water in editing into movie three, right?
00:30So it was all adjusting itself.
00:33And I also, just over the course of time,
00:35I saw some things that I felt I had done slightly wrong in the script.
00:39For example, I'm going to give you a couple of examples.
00:41One, Jake doesn't get the Turok in the shooting script of Fire and Ash.
00:48So I pulled that forward actually from a scene
00:51that was taking place in movie four.
00:54Because I said, no, I've got to answer this question.
00:57And once he has his moment with Spider,
00:59and you know the one I'm talking about,
01:01and we shouldn't talk about it,
01:02but there's only one path from that moment forward.
01:06And it's to get that thing and to change history
01:10and redawn that mantle of leadership that he's been avoiding
01:15because of the consequences,
01:17you know, the death that it caused last time.
01:20That's a huge change.
01:21So I just call up all the actors and say, hey guys, I got an idea, you know.
01:26And there are a couple of other examples as well of some big changes.
01:29Some of them were in response to the audience's interest.
01:32It wasn't so much that problems emerged as, oh, they really like this.
01:36They're really, you know.
01:37Pyakon emerged as one of our most favorite characters in movie two.
01:41He wasn't that big a player in movie three.
01:45So I reworked some stuff and I gave him more of a role.
01:48Because in my mind the story had moved on to another problem, you know.
01:53But so there was some contouring involved.
01:56So it never adds.
01:58The actress, you know, they crack up over it.
02:00Okay, when are we going to get called back?
02:02You know, because it's evolving.
02:03And it should, you know.
02:04And sometimes their ideas.
02:06Some notes from Zoe, you know, gave me some ideas for maybe not a whole scene,
02:11but maybe a way in which part of a scene was played.
02:14And, you know, because she, you know, as a mother,
02:17she was evolving in her perception of her role with her own children.
02:21You know, this played out over a period of years.
02:23So we started production in September of 17.
02:27And we were capturing for both films, right?
02:30So that was an 18-month period back then to capture for Way of Water and Fire and Ash at the same time.
02:38And then we revisited it.
02:40And sometimes it would be a day here or a week there.
02:43But it's been ongoing up to, I'd say, a year ago, you know.
02:47Ain't done until it's shipped, you know.
02:50And it got shipped about three weeks ago.
02:57I had a couple of episodes.
02:58But what we're taking a time while, it'sgiving.
02:59And it did.
03:00I was just...
03:02Hello, my friend.
03:03The icon may be here, my friend.
03:04I love you.
03:05I just wanna watch it.
03:06I really wanna go.
03:07I'm sorry.
03:08My friends are able to do this.
03:09You know, my friends are willing to do this.
03:10I'm sorry.
03:11I don't know.
03:12I'm sorry.
03:13I didn't know.
03:14But it's a day.
03:15You need to be a child.
03:16I don't know.
03:17You know, when I was born,
03:18you're a child.
03:20Bye.
03:21I'm sorry.
03:22I love you.
03:23Yeah.
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