Jon Landau, Producer of Avatar, Has Died at Age 63

Longtime movie shaper Jon Landau passed distant astatine 63 years old. Per TheWrap, sources explained that he’d been battling cancer. Landau is champion known for being the shaper connected a fig of films astatine 20th Century Fox similar the Avatar movies and Titanic.

Born July 30, 1960, helium was the lad of Ely and Edie Landau, who were movie producers themselves. His archetypal shaper relation was the 1987 film Campus Man from Paramount. By 1997, helium became EP of diagnostic movie accumulation for Fox, successful crook making him a longtime spouse of James Cameron. The 2 person been a palmy duo acknowledgment to the aforementioned films, which became container bureau hits and awards darlings (Titanic was the archetypal movie to ever transverse $1 cardinal worldwoide), and immoderate of the biggest movies of each time. He besides produced 2002’s Solaris (directed by Steven Soderbergh), and co-produced Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Dick Tracy. 

Landau became a steward of the Avatar franchise successful caller years, and helped Cameron and Disney travel up with the sequel movies and the Avatar theme parkland attractions. io9 Senior Reporter Germain Lussier recalled being connected the acceptable of Alita Battle Angel and being successful awe of Landau. “He sat america down successful a country and went implicit the full movie with us,” Lussier said. “Even though it was already successful production, it astir felt similar helium was pitching america connected it. Explaining the communicative and wherefore it meant truthful overmuch to him. He was truthful assured and astute and articulate, I walked retired of the country reasoning 2 things. One – if the movie is fractional arsenic bully arsenic that, it’s gonna beryllium fantastic. And 2 – nary wonderment he’s 1 of the champion producers successful the world.”

At clip of writing, Titanic star Frances Fisher was 1 of the archetypal radical to memorialize Landau connected societal media. Cameron has yet to accidental thing astir his passing, but we’ll update erstwhile helium does. Until then, we widen our condolences to Landau’s household and otheer loved ones.

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