Avatar Fire and Ash trailer teases Ash People and Quaritch alliance

A new trailer for Avatar Fire and Ash, the third installment in James Cameron's Avatar franchise, was released Thursday by 20th Century Studios, offering the first extended look at a conflict that brings Jake Sully and his family back to Pandora on Dec. 19, 2025. The footage depicts the Sullys still grieving the death of their son Neteyam as they encounter a hostile new Na'vi clan, the Ash People, whose leader Varang forms an alliance with the returning human antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch.

The trailer, which the studio indicated may play in theaters ahead of TRON: Ares and an IMAX rerelease of Avatar: The Way of Water, shows familiar faces and new threats. Sam Worthington and Zoë Saldaña reprise their roles as Jake Sully and Neytiri, joined by Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis and a large ensemble cast. Oona Chaplin appears as Varang, the Ash People chief, while the trailer also introduces the Wind Traders, a merchantlike people who travel in dirigible style skyships, and the Fire People who ride flying beasts.

Scenes in the trailer suggest a widening set of dangers. One sequence hints that humans may be gaining the ability to breathe Pandora's air,...