The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash is finally here after playing exclusively in theaters in front of The Fantastic Four: First Steps this past weekend (you'll recall that it also leaked online earlier this month).
Providing a long-awaited glimpse at Avatar: Fire and Ash's eye-popping visuals, new clans, and stunning new creatures, this sneak peek is admittedly light on plot details. However, for fans of Pandora, what's shown should be more than enough to bring them back to theatres over the holiday season.
With Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family.
"The way that we left the Sully family, they’re mourning heavily the loss of their child," Saldaña said last year about what fans can expect from the threequel. "So I do believe that that will carry out a great deal in the third installment of Avatar."
"Jake and Neytiri are on this journey of acceptance, of accepting who they are and what they must be for each other and how they’re going to push forward to keep their family safe. And I love the fact that in the core of this entire saga is a beautiful love story, and I love that Jim really wrote that for them."
"But it’s not going to be easy," she teased. "They’re not always going to meet eye to eye, and I just hope that they keep each other safe. That’s my hope for them."
Avatar: Fire and Ash was shot back-to-back with 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water. Cameron originally intended for them to be one movie, but soon realised there was too much material and expanded the story across parts two and three (a fourth instalment is also in the works and set for release in 2029).
The film, which has a screenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and a story by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver & Josh Friedman & Shane Salerno, also stars Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass, and Kate Winslet.
The third instalment in the phenomenally successful Avatar franchise opens exclusively in theaters worldwide in IMAX 3D, Dolby Cinema 3D, RealD 3D, Cinemark XD, 4DX, ScreenX, and premium screens everywhere on December 19, later this year.