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Avatar 2- Release Date,

Cast, Plot, Trailer And
Why Fans Are Worried

About This Movie?

Fans are eagerly waiting for the sequel to James
Cameron’s smashing CGI heavy epic science
fiction movie, Avatar which released back in
2009. While many felt that it would be a solo
movie, Cameron surprised everyone when he
announced that he was making not one but four
sequels!
As of now, the current story for the
second movie in the franchise revolves 12 years
after the events of Avatar. Jake Sully has started
a family with Neytiri as they are wandering
across the expansive world of Pandora, meeting
lake, a couple allegedly saw an enormous of 20 sightings per year and in the 1970s
new allies. Everything changes when the R.D.A.
animal they compared to a “dragon or underwater photographs of what appeared to be
once again invade Pandora to finish what they
prehistoric monster” cross in front of their car a “flipper” were made public.
started.
and disappear into the water. The incident was Additionally, several sonar explorations,
Director James Cameron stated that he
reported in a Scottish newspaper and numerous most notably in 1987 and 2003, were undertaken
waited for a while before shooting the sequels as
sightings followed. to find the elusive beast — to no avail.
he was waiting for the technology which will
Later that same year, the Daily Mail Over the years, more photographs have
allow the motion capture artists to perform
commissioned Marmaduke Wetherell, a big- been taken, but most were discredited as fakes.
underway.
game hunter, to track and find the sea serpent. In 1994, it was revealed that Wilson’s “surgeon
Avatar earned $2.79 billion worldwide.
Wetherell reported back that he had found large photograph” was a hoax masterminded by the
It was the first film to earn $2 billion, and it was
footprints along the lake’s shores which he revenge-seeking Wetherell. Wilson’s monster
the highest-earning film until Avengers
believed belonged to “a very powerful soft- was actually a plastic-and-wooden head attached
Endgame surpassed it in 2019.
footed animal about 20 feet long.” However, to a toy submarine.
Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana will
upon closer inspection, zoologists at the Natural In 2007, lab technician Gordon Holmes
reprise their roles from the original movie.
History Museum determined that the supposed claimed to videotape the Loch Ness Monster,
Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang will be
tracks were identical and likely made with an but a marine biologist said that while the tape
back too, even though both their characters died
umbrella stand or ashtray that had a was among “the best footage [he had] ever
in the first film.
hippopotamus leg as a base. seen,” it was likely an otter, seal, or water bird.
Fans are worried that Avatar may not be
But the hunt was not over. By 1934, In the summer of 2011, Loch Ness boat
able to repeat the success of the original. A
English physician Robert Kenneth Wilson took captain Marcus Atkinson photographed a sonar
recent example such as Blade Runner 2049 was
the iconic image known as the “surgeon’s image of a 4.9 foot-wide unidentified object that
a box office disappointment because of its
photograph.” The photograph appeared to show seemed to follow his boat for two minutes.
massive budget and was released almost 30
Nessie’s head and neck and The Daily Mail However, in April 2012 a scientist from the
years after the original. Also, Avatar was
printed the photograph, later proven to be a National Oceanography Centre said that the
released in a time when the Marvel Cinematic
hoax. image is of a bloom of algae.
Universe was not quite started yet, so it is going
In a shocking development, in the spring Several others have emerged over the
to face some heavy competition at the box
of 1938, South African tourist G. E. Taylor years, including a photograph in 2012, a five-
office. Nonetheless, Cameron himself is not
filmed something in the lake for three minutes minute video of a “mysterious wave” in the lake
worried and believes Avatar 2 will do well.
on 16 mm color film. The film was then in 2013 and a debunked Apple Maps photograph
As of now, Avatar 2 is scheduled to
obtained by popular science writer Maurice in 2014.
release on December 17, 2020.
Burton. A single frame of Taylor’s film was later But these hoaxes have still not halted the
published in Burton’s 1961 book. However, search. More recently in May 2018, researchers
Loch Ness Monster: A Burton’s analysis concluded it was a floating announced they would investigate the waters of
history of the legendary object. Loch Ness and use environmental DNA
In July 1955, Peter MacNab took a sampling of the waters to try and identify
creature photograph that depicted two long black humps everything that swims in it.
in the water. But researchers suspected the In April 2019, their study suggested that
humps could be a wave effect resulting from the fabled monster could have been a giant eel
There’s no reason to think that the Loch Ness
three fishing boats traveling closely together. and disproved a common rumor that a plesiosaur
Monster – colloquially known as “Nessie” –
In 1960, aeronautical engineer Tim had somehow managed to survive the mass
exists. However, the legendary dinosaur-like
Dinsdale filmed a hump that left a wake crossing extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs 65
creature makes headlines every year.
Loch Ness. Many said that the hump in million years ago.
One of Scotland’s oldest myths, reports
Dinsdale’s 40 feet of film was a boat after “We can’t find any evidence of a creature
that a creature was living in the Loch Ness lake
contrast was increased in the photo. But in 1993, that’s remotely related to that in our
date as far back as the 6th century.
Discovery Communications produced a environmental-DNA sequence data,” New
The first written account was recorded in
documentary, “Loch Ness Discovered,” with a Zeland geneticist Neil Gemmels later told BBC.
565 A.D. in a biography of St. Columba.
digital enhancement of the Dinsdale film. A “So, sorry, I don’t think the plesiosaur idea holds
According to the text, the creature bit a swimmer
person who enhanced the film noticed a shadow up based on the data that we have obtained.”
and was prepared to attack another man when
in the negative which was not obvious in the Despite the lack of any tangible
Columba intervened. He ordered the beast to
developed film. By enhancing and overlaying evidence, the Loch Ness Monster has remained
“go back” and it obeyed.
frames, he found what appeared to be the rear popular — and profitable. In the early 21st
Hundreds of years later, the legend
body of a creature. century, it was thought that it contributed nearly
started to grow. After the construction of a road
Later on in the mid-1960s, the so-called $80 million annually to Scotland’s economy by
adjacent to Loch Ness was finished in 1933,
Loch Ness Investigation Bureau conducted a 10- way of monster merchandise and tours for fans.
giving onlookers an unobstructed view of the
year observational survey recording an average []