Battle is coming to Pandora — once more.
On Thursday, twentieth Century Studios launched a brand new trailer for “Avatar: Hearth 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.
“That is the one pure factor on 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 fireplace got here from the mountain. Burnt our forest. My folks cried for assist however Eywa didn’t come.”
The movie’s new clan of Na’vi, additionally known as the Ash Individuals, 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 something for them, even issues that we’d take into account to be evil.”
The newest “Hearth 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 “Hearth and Ash,” it’s not so simple as them being “evil.” Chaplin informed Empire in July that Ash Clan members “have a bunch of unresolved trauma” due to the catastrophe they confronted.
“It’s simple to fall into the villain mentality, however truly she’s the hero of her folks,” Chaplin stated. “As a result of she’s saved them out of distress and hunger 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: Hearth and Ash” will hit theaters Dec. 19.
