Jon Landau, the Oscar-winning producer of Titanic and the Avatar films, has handed absent at only 63 a lengthy time outdated.

Jon Landau, the extremely lengthy-time creating companion of James Cameron and the COO of Lightstorm Amusement, has died at only 63 numerous years prior. According to The Wrap, the producer had been fighting most cancers for some time. Landau, of course, has generally been regarded as just 1 of the most slicing-edge producers in town, with him acquiring received an Oscar for creating James Cameron’s Titanic. By suggests of his carry out with the director, he also developed Avatar and its sequel, Avatar: The Way of H2o, as nicely as Alita Struggle Angel. He’s ordinarily been identified as a tireless steward of the Avatar sequence, with him acquiring been on board to produce the 3rd, fourth and fifth films, which are now in creation.

Prior to joining Cameron to produce Titanic, Landau worked for 20th Century Fox, in which he was a VP of output, with films generated all via his tenure which consists of Die Hard 2, The Final of the Mohicans, and Real Lies. His function on that film led to a in depth, enduring partnership with Cameron. People could possibly not comprehend it now, but each and every and every single time Cameron produced a massively budgeted major swing, critics assumed he’d drop on his deal with, with totally every person anticipating Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of H2o to flop. Landau remained a stalwart advocate for films, and the consequence was that each and every and every single subsequent film broke the 1 ahead of its box workplace atmosphere information, creating Landau, appropriately, a single of the maximum-grossing producers in film heritage.

Listed right here at JoBlo, we have been fortunate lots of to interview Landau pretty a handful of occasions, and his infectious enthusiasm for all of his initiatives was generally a pleasure to behold. Undoubtedly, he was a genuine major in the enterprise, but his legacy will reside on with all of his films rightly regarded as classics, while the Avatar franchise will go on for decades to come, a lot as well.