Fire and Ash trailer for Cinemacon teases epic battles

It looks like someone finally returned their homework in time.

“Avatar: Fire and Water” by James Cameron, the third and the only episode of the saga which was not in the grip of endless release delays, unveiled the very first trailer Thursday afternoon in Cinemacon, the annual gathering of cinema owners in Las Vegas. (To be fair, Cameron has shot consecutive follow-up films, so the rest of the science fiction series of another world should arrive on time).

Cinemacon participants received 3D glasses to watch the trailer, which was not released to the general public. The dazzling images begin on Pandora and presents two new NA’VI clans – the wind traders, which hover in the sky using what looks like very stylized hot air balloons and their opponents, the People Fire, who arrive by driving Ikran flying creatures. As a battle begins in the sky, a NA’VI is shot dead with a flamboyant and killed arrow.

“We cannot live like that, baby” said Jake Sully to his beloved Neytiri. “We cannot live with this hatred.”

“Avatar” follows the clan of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) on the extraterrestrial moon of Pandora. “Avatar: Fire and Ash” resumes a few moments after the events of “The Way of Water”, which bothers the conflict between the humanoids with blue skin known as Na’vi against the wicked administration of resource development. After the death of Jake Sully’s son, Netyam, he and his family seek refuge with the aquatic clan called Metkayina and continue the fight against the DRD as well as the new fiery enemy. Their fight takes them to all kinds of radical terrains, extending from the ocean and from the sky to the forests and the mountains.

Later in the prolonged images, the chief of the water concludes: “We cannot overcome this enemy who comes from the stars.”

Saldaña went on stage to Cinemacon to present the images never seen before and put the ground for the third chapter: “Wind traders are a peaceful and nomadic clan of air travel, and the ASH people are ancient Na’vi who abandoned Eywa”, a deity on Pandora. At one point in the trailer, the female chief of the Ash clan said to Neytiri: “Your goddess has no place here.”

Cameron was not present (he puts the final touch to “Avatar 3”) but he appeared in a pre -recorded video to talk about Threequel exhibitors. “The Sully family is really put to the test on it when they are faced not only with human invaders,” he teased, “but new adversaries, ASH people.”

Cameron apologized for not having hiked in Las Vegas for Cinemacon. But the room full of exhibitors was probably satisfied with the filmmaker’s excuse.

“Sorry, I can’t be there, but I am in New Zealand, finishing ‘` Avatar: Fire and Ash’ ‘, what I think we can all agree is a good use of my time, since this suction cup comes to us as a freight train on December 19, “said Cameron in the video. “I hope this film will be able to give the owners a hit to the theater, because we still have trouble after the punch of the pandemic and streaming.”

“Avatar”, of course, has become the Holy Grail for exhibitors and roughly the only property that could inspire theater operators to equip their places with the best possible technology to play the epics of Cameron. After all, “Avatar” of 2009 and the long -standing suite of 2022, “Avatar: The Way of Water”, each reported more than $ 2 billion in the world and are presented as two of the biggest films in history. If “Fire and Ash” will trace a similar box office path, “Avatar” will be the only film franchise in history with three payments to more than $ 2 billion. (The Marvel Cinematographic Universe of Disney has only two meager, “Avengers: Endgame” of 2019 and “Avengers: Infinity War” of 2019.) Meanwhile, Cameron is already the only filmmaker with three films to generate more than $ 2 billion, the other being “Titanic”.

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” will be released in theaters before Christmas on December 19. Meanwhile, “Avatar 4” is scheduled for December 21, 2029 and “Avatar 5” is scheduled for December 19, 2031.

Always during the Disney’s Cinemacon window, the studio offered exclusive looks on “Thunderbolts” and “Fantastic Four: The First Steps” by Marvel, as well as “Zootopia 2”, “Freaker Friday”, “Tron: Ares” and the Recharge live “Lilo & Stitch”, which will end on the big screen.

“Disney films are exclusively in theaters longer than all our competitors,” said the world distribution of the studio, Andrew Cripps, in the movie owners room. “Believe me, it’s not by accident.” We believe in theatrical experience. “