You might want to slap on some Factor 50 (or, honestly, about 5000) before your next visit to Pandora, folks — things are seriously heating up in the new trailer for James Cameron's Avatar: Fire And Ash. With the blockbuster auteur's sci-fi saga set to continue in less than three months' time and the movie's promotional push now in full flow, Disney has just dropped an epic new trailer for Cameron's latest — and it is intense. For a closer look at Oona Chaplin's villainous Varang and her Mangkwan clan's roots, and the fresh conflict that's set to bring Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his family's way, check out the new teaser below;
Well that, in a word, was epic! And, in a sentence, Avatar: Fire And Ash looks to be a massively expansive — and deeply consequential — middle chapter in James Cameron's planned five-film Pandoran saga. Here we learn a little more about the volcanic eruption that killed Varang and her clan's faith in Eywa; glimpse the Sullys — and the Ash people — fighting aboard David Thewlis' sky captain Peylak's wind trader ship; see both Spider (Jack Champion) and recombinant Quaritch (Stephen Lang) almost literally playing with fire, dealing with Varang and their own dysfunctional but deepening father-son relationship; and all of our heroes — and villains — feeling the heat as war breaks out once again, this time across land, sea (yes, Jim, we did see the return of Kate Winslet's Ronal and Avatar: The Way Of Water's Metkayina), and sky.
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All of which is to say that if anyone was worrying about some sort of middle chapter slump denting Fire And Ash's chances of lighting up the box-office like its $2 billion+ grossing predecessors, then on present evidence they really, really needn't. Even amid Cameron's increasingly dramatic exploration of familial struggles, generational trauma, the devastating ramifications of colonialism, and the existential threats to whole eco-systems presented by the greed of man, Fire And Ash's trailer alone promises more breathtaking flora, fauna, and majestic space big bois to marvel at than ever before, and more of the balls-to-the-wall, brain melting setpieces that only the man behind T2, Aliens, and Titanic could pull off than ever before, too.
Where all of this war will eventually lead — and just who exactly will make it out of our next trip to Pandora alive — very much remains to be seen. (The prospect of Scoresby vs Payakan Round 2 has us very afraid.) But one thing's for sure: you'll catch us right in the thick of it on opening day when Avatar: Fire And Ash hits cinemas on 19 December. Until then, Sivako!