The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash is breathtaking. What else did you expect?

The Pandora discourse has begun yet again with the arrival of theAvatar: Fire and Ashtrailer. The formula goes something like this: someone on the internet will say thatAvataris actually not good and has no cultural impact. Then, the trailer will earn rave reviews for its breathtaking visuals thanks to the work of its technical maestro,James Cameron.

Prognosticators will then attempt to determine if another Avatar movie will be a billion-dollar hit. Fast forward to a few months after the release, and the Avatar movie will be one of the highest-grossing movies ever. This scenario happened in 2022 withAvatar: The Way of Water,the third-highest-grossing movie of all time. Will history repeat itself withAvatar 3?

In the previous two Avatar movies, the enemy has been the RDA. InAvatar: Fire and Ash, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his family face off against the Ash People, an aggressive Na’vi tribe that is one with fire. It’s similar to how the Metkayina tribe revolved around water. The Ash People are led by Varang (Oona Chaplin), who chillingly tells a captured Kiri, “Your goddess has no dominion here.” The other Na’vi clan introduced inFire and Ashis the peaceful Wind Traders.

Still grieving over the loss of her oldest child, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) has turned her sorrows into hatred. Jake knows the dangers of being fueled by rage. “You cannot live like this, baby, in hate,” Jake tells Neytiri. Therest of the trailerpreviews the jaw-dropping footage of intense battles between the Na’vi clans and the RDA.

Additional cast members returning forAvatar 3include Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch, Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge, Kate Winslet as Ronal, Cliff Curtis as Tonowari, Britain Dalton as Lo’ak, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss as Tuktirey Tuk, Jack Champion as Miles Spider, and David Thewlis as Peylak.

Cameron returns to direct his third Avatar movie from a screenplay he cowrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Cameron is a technical master, so the visuals inAvatar: Fire and Ashwill be top-notch. However, Cameron has a gift for injecting emotional beats into his action epics. Cameron saidhis wife “bawled for four hours”watchingAvatar 3. Speaking of hours, Cameron mentioned thatFire and Ashis a “little bit longer” thanWay of Water, which carried a 192-minute runtime.

Avatar: Fire and Ashopens in theaters on August 15, 2025.