First trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer released
The first two films in this franchise are two of the three largest-grossing movies of all time. Here’s your first proper look at the next instalment.
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The first full-length trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash, the next instalment in James Cameron’s record-breaking Avatar series, has been released today.
Set for release in cinemas this December, the new film follows 2009’s Avatar, still the highest-grossing film of all time, and 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water, which sits at number three on the all-time box office list (Avengers: Endgame sits between them, while another James Cameron epic, Titanic, sits at number four).
The new film features the same main cast as earlier instalments – led by Aussie actor Sam Worthington as Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully, and recent Oscar-winner Zoe Saldana as Na’vi warrior Neytiri.
Fire and Ash is only the third in a planned five-film franchise for Avatar, with more sequels currently scheduled for 2029 and 2031.
Cameron’s plan to stagger the franchise over a period of more than two decades has been mocked by some, but the results for the first Avatar sequel proved the naysayers wrong: The Way of Water made well over $US2 billion at the global box office, showing there was huge audience appetite despite the 13-year gap between the first two films.
But it has been a daunting task for Avatar’s cast and crew: “I was 28 when I signed on to do five films and will be 54 when we finish,” lead actress Saldana once memorably noted.
And speaking to news.com.au in 2022 before the release of the second film, Worthington insisted he never realised he was signing on for a decades-long endeavour when he agreed to star in the first film.
“A sequel was never really discussed. I think it was many years later, after Jim (director James Cameron) had taken up free diving, that I got a call. The way he was talking about it, I thought, ‘OK, I think he’s going to incorporate that into something,’” he said.
“But it took a couple of years and a couple of phone calls with Jim to discover that he wanted to keep progressing this story.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash is set for release on December 18.
Originally published as First trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer released
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