Avatar: Fire and Ash Footage Introduced New Na'vi Allies and Adversaries

In a pre-recorded connection to CinemaCon from his post-production installation successful New Zealand, James Cameron introduced Zoe Saldaña to contiguous the first-ever footage from Avatar: Fire and Ash, successful theaters December 19th.

“The Sully household are truly enactment done the ringer connected this 1 arsenic they look not lone the quality invaders, but caller adversaries: the Ash People,” Cameron said successful his introduction.

Roughly 5 minutes from the movie presented successful 3D, 2 sequences followed by a sizzle reel. The absorption of the footage presented to an assemblage of theatre execs and property was to amusement an expanded look astatine caller corners and cultures successful the satellite of Pandora.

Two caller groups of Na’vi are introduced successful this 3rd Avatar film: the Tlalim clan, aka the Windtraders, and the Mangkwan Clan, aka the Ash People. The erstwhile are nomads who “sail” the skies similar sailors from the Golden Age of Sail, portion the second are baddies who person rejected their deity and the ways of the Na’vi aft a volcano near their homeland a desolate wreck covered successful ash.

Zoe Saldaña is backmost connected the #CinemaCon signifier to present Avatar: Fire and Ash. pic.twitter.com/RS8T21L4O5

David Thewlis plays Peylak, the person of the Windtraders, portion Oona Chaplin plays the Ash People’s sinister leader, Varang. Both are featured successful the footage that was shown astatine CinemaCon, which began with a bid of images showing the expanded look astatine Pandora.

Then a series shows Jake Sully, Neytiri, their kids Lo’ak and Tuk, Kiri, and Spider surviving among the high-flying Windtraders whose entity boats alert with membrane-like sails that look similar jellyfish. They’re past attacked from supra by a raiding enactment of Ash People.

It past transitioned into much of an extended trailer featuring tons of enactment and battles successful the aerial and land, with Varang astatine 1 constituent telling Neytiri that “her God has nary dominion here.”

The footage – which was arsenic eye-popping and visceral arsenic viewers person travel to expect from the Avatar films – was presented successful 3D and successful a precocious framework complaint to supply an immersive, sensory experience.

For much CinemaCon coverage, find retired what we learned astir Superman, Mortal Kombat II, Resident Evil, Spider-Man: Brave New Day, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, John Wick 5, Jurassic World Rebirth, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Masters of the Universe, and The Beatles.