I'm Fully Seated for the <em>Avatar: Fire and Ash</em> Trailer

Can you believe Avatar: Fire and Ash is just six months away? How time flies. It feels like we were just swimming in those pristine IMAX 3D waters of Avatar: The Way of Water. This time around, director James Cameron takes his big blue aliens to meet yet another tribe of Na’vi who wear red headdresses and have forsaken the Na’vi God in the new "Fire and Ash" area of Pandora. Expect big battles, family squabbles, and Zoe Saldaña’s Neytiri screaming bloody murder as she slings arrows at her new foes.

In the first trailer for the third Avatar film, another war in on the horizon. We’ve known for quite some time that the Ash village wouldn’t take too kindly to Sully and his family rifling up human involvement on Pandora, but we still don’t really know how any of these new elements connect to each other. For now, audiences only get a glimpse of Varang (played by Oona Chaplin), the leader of this new village and a fearsome new villain—though I have a hunch she won’t stay that way. “Your goddess has no dominion here,” she warns Sigourney Weaver’s Kiri. Scary stuff.

Avatar: Fire and Ash arrives in theaters on December 19, 2025. You can watch the new trailer above.

"You’ll see a lot more Pandora that you never saw before," Cameron revealed last year at the D23 Expo. "It’s an insane adventure and a feast for the eyes, but it’s also got very high emotional stakes, more than ever before. We’re going into really challenging territory for all the characters you know and love."

In Fire and Ash, Sam Worthington returns as Jake, the head of the Sully Na’vi family. He’s joined by Saldaña, Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Britain Dalton, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass, and newcomer David Thewlis.

According to Cameron, the third film will play out "a bit longer" than Way of the Water. That was film was just over three hours long, by the way. "In a nutshell, we had too many great ideas packed into act one of [Way of Water]," Cameron told Empire. "The [film] was moving like a bullet train, and we weren’t drilling down enough on character. So, I said, 'Guys, we’ve got to split it.' "

The director also plans at least two more Avatar movies after Fire and Ash. Avatar 4 is set for release on December 21, 2029, and then Avatar 5 will follow on Dec. 19, 2031. By then, maybe technology will actually let us turn into a giant blue person.