Conflict is coming to Pandora — once more.
On Thursday, twentieth Century Studios launched a brand new trailer for “Avatar: Fire and Ash” providing extra glimpses of the attractive world of James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic in addition to teasing to a few of its story.
“This is the only pure thing in this world,” Varang (Oona Chaplin), the chief of the fiery Mangkwan Clan, says within the trailer as she waves her fingers over crackling flames. “The fire came from the mountain. Burnt our forest. My people cried for help but Eywa did not come.”
The movie’s new clan of Na’vi, additionally known as the Ash Folks, are among the many adversaries that Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and household are set to face within the third “Avatar” installment. Earlier this 12 months Cameron defined in an interview with Empire that Varang has been hardened by the hardships her folks have confronted and “will do anything for them, even things that we would consider to be evil.”
The most recent “Fire and Ash” trailer exhibits Varang aligning herself with Quaritch (Stephen Lang), capturing Spider (Jack Champion) and main an assault in opposition to different Na’vi clans, together with the nomadic Wind Merchants who journey aboard airborne vessels drawn by giant jellyfish-like creatures.
Whereas Varang and her clan are clearly positioned as among the many enemies in “Fire and Ash,” it’s not so simple as them being “evil.” Chaplin instructed Empire in July that Ash Clan members “have a bunch of unresolved trauma” due to the catastrophe they confronted.
“It’s easy to fall into the villain mentality, but actually she’s the hero of her people,” Chaplin stated. “Because she’s saved them out of misery and starvation and begging.”
Among the many characters set to return within the movie are additionally Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), Kiri (Sigourney Weaver), Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), Tuktirey (Trinity Jo-Li Bliss), Tonowari (Cliff Curtis) and Ronal (Kate Winslet).
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” will hit theaters Dec. 19.
