One such track would have seen the Na’vi heading to outer space.

“That idea got a lot of traction, and we talked a lot about it.

We were struggling, though.

How would that work with the story that we’re telling?

Jim said, ‘Well, give me a few weeks.’

He went off and he wrote an entire script.

And, by the way, a brilliant script.”

The script seemed to go over well in the writer’s room, despite the end result.

It could be anything, from a plot point to a character to a character beat."

“We didn’t know which movie we were gonna write.

We were gonna be invested in all of them and each beat of each movie.

Learning everything about the mythology of Pandora took about two weeks alone.

The physical writers' room, Silver remembers, was filled with whiteboards.

Thinkthat Charlie Day gif fromIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

“I couldn’t even account how many whiteboards,” she says.

“And then whiteboards that flip over and you might write on the back.

“In other words, you could throw out any idea.

You could debate any idea.

You could express your opinion freely and not worry about being slapped down or being made fun.”

Admittedly, they had a lot to work with.

Perhaps too much to work with.

The treatment for what would becomeThe Way of Waterbegan as one movie but soon became two.

“Just tons and tons of material,” Silver says.

That’s really how our movie the first one became two.”

Avatar: The Way of Waterpicks up years after the events of the first film.

Silver points to the Spider-Kiri relationship as one example.

“You didn’t wanna cut that short.

You wanted to let some of that stuff play out.”

“Certain ideas were kind of terrifying,” Silver admits.

“Like all of a sudden we’re gonna have a talking tulkun.

This is new in the franchise.

But Jim, when he sees something, he goes for it.”

“I would be scared to talk about the Ash People,” says Silver, referring to spoilers.

“None of us hesitated at all when [Cameron] presented the idea.

We all flipped out,” Jaffa teases.

“We all were like, ‘Oh my God!

It’s fantastic.'”

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