Jon Landau has been Avatar director James Cameron’s producing partner and diplomatic right-hand man since Titanic became the pair’s first highest-grossing movie in history and best picture Oscar winner. He’s spent a fair amount of time criss-crossing the Pacific as the Avatar: The Way of Water production stretched between Los Angeles and Wellington.
How much of the films have been – or, if all four get made, will be – done in New Zealand?
We have done much more work based in New