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

Longtime movie producer Jon Landau handed away at 63 years previous. Per TheWrap, sources defined that he’d been battling most cancers. Landau is finest recognized for being the producer on various movies at twentieth Century Fox just like the Avatar motion pictures and Titanic.

Born July 30, 1960, he was the son of Ely and Edie Landau, who had been movie producers themselves. His first producer position was the 1987 movie Campus Man from Paramount. By 1997, he turned EP of characteristic movie manufacturing for Fox, in flip making him a collaborator with James Cameron. The 2 have been a profitable duo because of the aforementioned movies, which turned field workplace hits and awards darlings (Titanic was the primary movie to ever cross $1 billion worldwide), and among the largest motion pictures of all time. He additionally produced 2002’s Solaris (directed by Steven Soderbergh), co-produced Honey, I Shrunk the Youngsters and Dick Tracy, and oversaw Fox’s Energy Rangers film, True Lies, and Final of the Mohicans.

Landau turned a steward of the Avatar franchise lately, and helped Cameron and Disney provide you with the sequel motion pictures and the Avatar theme park sights. As COO of Lightstorm Leisure, Landau led Avatar’s transmedia growth into comics from Darkish Horse and video video games, together with 2023’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora from Ubisoft.

io9 Senior Reporter Germain Lussier recalled being on the set of Alita Battle Angel (which Landau additionally produced) and being in awe of him. “He sat us down in a room and went over the entire film with us,” Lussier recalled. “Although IT was already in manufacturing, IT virtually felt like he was pitching us on IT. Explaining the story and why IT meant a lot to him. He was so assured and good and articulate, I walked out of the room considering two issues. One – if the film is half pretty much as good as that, IT’s gonna be unbelievable. And two – no surprise he’s among the best producers on this planet.”

At time of writing, Titanic star Frances Fisher was one of many first individuals to memorialize Landau on social media. Cameron has but to say something about his passing, however we’ll replace when he does. Till then, we lengthen our condolences to Landau’s household and otheer family members.

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