Fireplace and Ash Footage Goes From Quiet Magnificence to Violent Rage

When the viewers was handed 3D glasses as we walked into the ultimate presentation at CinemaCon 2025, it might solely imply one factor: we were going back to Pandora. And, positive sufficient, Disney introduced the primary footage ever from Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third movie in James Cameron’s epic fantasy franchise.

Cameron wasn’t there in particular person, however he put the presentation within the succesful arms of Neytiri herself, Zoe Saldaña. The footage started with the water tribe, the Metkayina, as characters swim by way of some sort of wreckage (possibly from the top of the final film?), adopted by scenes of the children like Lo’ak, Kiri, Tsireya hanging about.

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

The Wind Merchants present up, and the entire Metkayina are excited. It’s pleasant. Persons are cheering, and a number of the youthful characters like Kiri and even Spider are driving with them. Cameron movies these scenes with an actual love for these folks. These are mainly flying pirate ships with sails made up of just about translucent materials. Members of the tribe bark out orders across the ship such as you’d see in an outdated pirate film however the ships simply hold gliding alongside. That is peaceable. That is lovely. That is good.

The ships slowly float by way of the mountains with another Na’vi, like Neytiri, driving alongside on her Ikran. Spider playfully dangles his foot off the facet. Once more, all the things is quiet and calm. However not for lengthy. Neytiri spots one thing watching them from the sky and screams for Jake. It’s the Ash tribe and so they have a way more menacing presence than the Na’vi folks we all know, thanks largely to the intense purple struggle paint they put on and the sparks coming off the again of their Ikrans.

The Ash tribe swoops down and assaults our heroes in an enormous midair battle. Jake fires his gun. Neytiri fires her bow and arrow. However the Ash tribe shoots arrows with fireplace, which begin to burn down the Wind tribe’s ships.

We see Jake seemingly trekking throughout Pandora by himself, strolling by large volcanoes and ultimately arriving at what appears to be like just like the gate of the Ash tribe along with his arms within the air, giving himself up. He and Neytiri are having issues with Lo’ak and inform him, “You’ll be able to’t stay in hate!” They hug him.

Tonowari, chief of the water tribe, says that they’ll’t defeat enemies that come from the celebrities. We then see the Ash tribe seemingly teaming up with Quaritch and the remainder of the human military.

Neytiri is within the hospital and screams for her youngsters. A raid is going on. There’s a fast shot of the attention of a Tulkun. Issues finish with an enormous battle that’s taking place on what appears to be like like floating rocks. They appear to be in the midst of some sort of floating wreckage from a battle that’s nonetheless taking place. Neytiri and the chief of the Ash tribe, who we’ve seen all through the trailer, are preventing however Neytiri’s snarls come up in opposition to her flame thrower kind weapon. “Your goddess has no dominion right here,” the Ash lady says, confirming they don’t imagine in Ewa. And that’s the top.

So you may have the serenity of the Wind tribe, the kinetic power of the Ash tribe and within the center, the water folks, which now consists of the Sully household. We’ve a sense not everybody goes to make it out alive.

Avatar: Fireplace and Ash opens December 19, and Cameron continues to be engaged on it.

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