{"id":29817,"date":"2025-07-28T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29817\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:53:08","slug":"first-look-at-james-cameron-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29817\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look at James Cameron Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe action-packed first trailer for James Cameron<\/a>\u2018s next Avatar fantasy epic has been officially released online (below).<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney has revealed the trailer for Avatar: Fire & Ash following the footage leaking after the teaser was put exclusively in theaters last week in front of Fantastic Four: First Steps.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne raved<\/a> that the trailer was \u201csome of the most beautiful footage I\u2019ve seen all year [and I was] struck by the real sense of doom and rage \u2014 fist fights inside of cosmic volcanoes, heroes terrified, huge aerial battles.\u201d While an entertainment writer wrote<\/a>, \u201c[The trailer] started out as \u2018meh, more of the same\u2019 and ended with \u2018yup, another billion to James Cameron.’\u201d And a film critic wrote<\/a>: \u201cThe visuals are (somehow) on another level. There is no doubt in my mind that this WILL be the biggest movie of 2025, and \u2018epic\u2019 doesn\u2019t feel like it does this trailer justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer returns moviegoers to Pandora and introduces two new tribes, the Wind Traders and the fire-hurling Ash People clan. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe footage shows Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), his partner Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and his Na\u2019vi family engaged in intense arial fighting with the Ash People clan. There\u2019s also the return of the sinister Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), now sporting dramatic white, black and red warpaint, suggesting he might have made an alliance with the Ash People. At one point, a captive Kiri (Sigourney Weaver) is told by a new villain, Varang (Oona Chaplin), \u201cYour goddess has no dominion here.\u201d While Sully warns Neytiri, \u201cWe cannot live like this,\u201d and is taken captive and paraded before the Pandora occupation forces. And young Spider (Jack Champion) seems like he\u2019s in jeopardy quite a bit.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first Avatar, released in 2009, became the highest-grossing film of all time, raking in $2.9 billion globally. The first sequel, 2022\u2019s The Way of Water, charted as the third-highest-grossing movie of all time (with $2.3 billion), beating expectations and silencing doubters that the Oscar winner could pull off another Avatar blockbuster. At this point, few doubt Cameron\u2019s ability to generate massive box office returns with the Avatar franchise and confidence is high that Fire & Ash will deliver when its released as a major holiday tentpole on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile a run time hasn\u2019t yet been announced, Cameron has teased that\u00a0Fire and Ash\u00a0\u201cwill be a bit longer<\/a>\u201d than\u00a0The Way of Water. The last film was three hours and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn a nutshell, we had too many great ideas packed into act one of [Way of Water],\u201d Cameron recently said. \u201cThe [film] was moving like a bullet train, and we weren\u2019t drilling down enough on character. So I said, \u2018Guys, we\u2019ve got to split it.\u2019\u00a0[Fire & Ash]\u00a0will actually be a little bit longer than\u00a0[Way of Water].\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tQuaritch (Stephen Lang)in Avatar Fire and Ash<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of 20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tCameron plans five\u00a0Avatar\u00a0films and has said he intends to direct them all, as well. Much of the footage, Cameron has said, has already been shot. Avatar 4\u00a0is set for Dec. 21, 2029, and\u00a0Avatar 5\u00a0will arrive Dec. 19, 2031.<\/p>\n

\n\tCameron also hopes to adapt the Charles Pellegrino books Ghosts of Hiroshima and Last Train From Hiroshima as soon as his Avatar schedule permits. The film would focus on the true story of a Japanese man during World War II who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima as well as the explosion in Nagasaki. If it comes to fruition, it would mark Cameron\u2019s first non-Avatar film since 1997\u2019s Titanic.<\/p>\n

\n\tFire & Ash cast members include Zoe Salda\u00f1a, Sigourney Weaver, Britain Dalton, Jack Champion, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Matt Gerald, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Bailey Bass, Jemaine Clement and David Thewlis. The film\u2019s screenplay is by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe official description of\u00a0Fire and Ash: \u201cJake and Neytiri\u2019s family grapples with grief after Neteyam\u2019s death, encountering a new, aggressive Na\u2019vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tJuly 28, 8:13 a.m. This story has been updated with the trailer officially dropping online.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story was first published on July 25 at 2:51 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The action-packed first trailer for James Cameron\u2018s next Avatar fantasy epic has been officially released online (below). Disney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5960,49,48,75,5961,337],"class_list":["post-29817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-james-cameron","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}