Idea For Avatar Came To James Cameron In A Dream

It’s been a long 13 years since James Cameron released Avatar, and became the highest-grossing movie of all time, which had to top another Cameron film, Titanic, to take the crown. Now, the director is back with a sequel a decade in the making, accepting the fact there might only be one left. There's a lot banking on this film and even Cameron is playing the wait-and-see game with audience reaction when it drops next month.

Talking to GQ about the ins and outs of the psychology of the Avatar sequels, especially the upcoming Way of Water, Cameron talked about the origins of the Avatar and how it came in a dream to him when he was 19.

"I woke up after dreaming of this kind of bioluminescent forest with these trees that look kind of like fiber-optic lamps and this river that was glowing bioluminescent particles and kind of purple moss on the ground that lit up when you walked on it. And these kinds of lizards that didn't look like much until they took off," Cameron said. "And then they turned into these rotating fans, kind of like living Frisbees, and they come down and land on something. It was all in the dream. I woke up super excited and I actually drew it. So I actually have a drawing."

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