James Cameron wasn’t as confident staring into “The Abyss” in 1989.The Oscar winner explained during a Beyond Fest panel moderated by IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill that the underwater sci-fi action film was the “first really big, kind of mega-budget movie” in his career.
Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio starred as divorced petroleum engineers who are hired to assist a Navy Seal (Michael Biehn) in recovering a nuclear submarine.
The 20th Century Fox film had a budget of $43 million and grossed $90 at the worldwide box office before winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.“Well, this was my first really big, kind of mega-budget movie,” Cameron said onstage.
“It wasn’t kind of a slam dunk in the way ‘Aliens’ was.
Like, we just knew ‘Aliens’ worked.
This one, we didn’t know exactly how it was going to work.”Cameron’s unease led to his first test…
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