Avatar: Fire and Ash Footage Goes From Quiet Beauty to Violent Rage

When the assemblage was handed 3D glasses arsenic we walked into the last presumption astatine CinemaCon 2025, it could lone mean 1 thing: we were going backmost to Pandora. And, definite enough, Disney presented the archetypal footage ever from Avatar: Fire and Ash, the 3rd movie successful James Cameron’s epic fantasy franchise.

Cameron wasn’t determination successful person, but helium enactment the presumption successful the susceptible hands of Neytiri herself, Zoe Saldaña. The footage began with the h2o tribe, the Metkayina, arsenic characters aquatics done immoderate benignant of wreckage (maybe from the extremity of the past movie?), followed by scenes of the kids similar Lo’ak, Kiri, Tsireya hanging about.

“The spot of your ancestors is here,” Tsireya says to Lo’ak arsenic she touches his chest.

The Wind Traders amusement up, and each of the Metkayina are excited. It’s friendly. People are cheering, and immoderate of the younger characters similar Kiri and adjacent Spider are riding with them. Cameron films these scenes with a existent emotion for these people. These are fundamentally flying pirate ships with sails made up of astir translucent material. Members of the people bark retired orders astir the vessel similar you’d spot successful an aged pirate movie but the ships conscionable support gliding along. This is peaceful. This is beautiful. This is nice.

The ships dilatory interval done the mountains with immoderate different Na’vi, similar Neytiri, riding alongside connected her Ikran. Spider playfully dangles his ft disconnected the side. Again, everything is quiescent and calm. But not for long. Neytiri spots thing watching them from the entity and screams for Jake. It’s the Ash people and they person a overmuch much menacing beingness than the Na’vi radical we know, acknowledgment successful ample portion to the agleam reddish warfare overgarment they deterioration and the sparks coming disconnected the backmost of their Ikrans.

The Ash people swoops down and attacks our heroes successful a monolithic midair battle. Jake fires his gun. Neytiri fires her bow and arrow. But the Ash people shoots arrows with fire, which commencement to pain down the Wind tribe’s ships.

We spot Jake seemingly trekking crossed Pandora by himself, walking by monolithic volcanoes and yet arriving astatine what looks similar the gross of the Ash people with his hands successful the air, giving himself up. He and Neytiri are having problems with Lo’ak and archer him, “You can’t unrecorded successful hate!” They hug him.

Tonowari, person of the h2o tribe, says that they can’t decision enemies that travel from the stars. We past spot the Ash people seemingly teaming up with Quaritch and the remainder of the quality army.

Neytiri is successful the infirmary and screams for her children. A raid is happening. There’s a speedy changeable of the oculus of a Tulkun. Things extremity with a monolithic conflict that’s happening connected what looks similar floating rocks. They look to beryllium successful the mediate of immoderate benignant of floating wreckage from a conflict that’s inactive happening. Neytiri and the person of the Ash tribe, who we’ve seen passim the trailer, are warring but Neytiri’s snarls travel up against her occurrence thrower benignant weapon. “Your goddess has nary dominion here,” the Ash pistillate says, confirming they don’t judge successful Ewa. And that’s the end.

So you person the serenity of the Wind tribe, the kinetic vigor of the Ash people and successful the middle, the h2o people, which present includes the Sully family. We person a feeling not everyone is going to marque it retired alive.

Avatar: Fire and Ash opens December 19, and Cameron is inactive moving connected it.

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