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 identified for being the producer on a variety of 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 grew to become EP of characteristic movie manufacturing for Fox, in flip making him a collaborator with James Cameron. The 2 have been a profitable duo due to the aforementioned movies, which grew to become field workplace hits and awards darlings (Titanic was the primary movie to ever cross $1 billion worldwide), and a few of 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 grew to become a steward of the Avatar franchise lately, and helped Cameron and Disney give you the sequel movies and the Avatar theme park sights. As COO of Lightstorm Leisure, Landau led Avatar’s transmedia enlargement 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. “Though it was already in manufacturing, it nearly felt like he was pitching us on it. Explaining the story and why it meant a lot to him. He was so assured and sensible and articulate, I walked out of the room considering two issues. One – if the film is half nearly as good as that, it’s gonna be implausible. And two – no marvel he’s the most effective producers on the planet.”

At time of writing, Titanic star Frances Fisher was one of many first folks 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 prolong our condolences to Landau’s household and otheer family members.

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