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Avatar exertion John Refoua, whose enactment connected the movie earned him an Oscar information successful 2009, died May 14 aft a conflict with bile cancer, his woman Serena Refoua wrote connected Facebook.
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The Avatar franchise has mislaid an important subordinate of its crew.
John Refoua, who worked arsenic a movie exertion connected Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, died May 14 aft a conflict with bile cancer, his woman Serena Refoua shared connected Facebook. He was 58.
"Dear friends, my brilliant, sweet, originative hubby John Djahanshah Refoua passed distant past nighttime May 14 surrounded by household and friends who loved him," Serena wrote. "Despite the symptom and complexities of this assertive disease, helium faced it with courageousness and grit."
According to his wife, John was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma astir February 2022. Cholangiocarcinoma is simply a uncommon crab that forms successful the bile ducts, per the National Cancer Institute.
Regardless of the illness, John continued to enactment "right up to his last weeks" connected the 3rd installment of manager James Cameron's Avatar movie series, which is slated to beryllium released astatine the extremity of 2024, according to Variety.
"His life's trajectory was rather unsocial and thing helium touched, helium made better," Serena continued. "He loved music, movies, politics, traveling, vintage cars, subject fiction, and his 4 twelvemonth aged granddaughter Avery Sophia. We volition miss his generosity and wisdom."
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Details astir John's solemnisation of beingness are inactive being decided, Serena said.
In summation to his Avatar success, which earned him an Oscar information successful 2009, John edited Transformers: The Last Knight, The Magnificent Seven and Geostorm, among others.
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