It’s been over a decade since James Cameron’s first Avatar movie graced the big screen. After several delays, however, it looks like the first of Cameron’s four (yes, that’s right, four) sequels, Avatar: The Way of Water, will be coming to theaters this year, whether we care about it or not.
To celebrate the occasion, 20th Century Studios released a teaser trailer, which you can watch above.
This teaser trailer really doubles down on the word teaser and shows the Na’vi riding on animals in the air and on the sea to dramatic music. It doesn’t shed much light, however, on what the story is actually about. The movie’s official logline doesn’t give us much more on that front, either. Check it out for yourself:
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Family!
Avatar: The Way of Water stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Kate Winslet.
If you have trouble remembering who Jake and Neytiri Sully are (played respectively by Worthington and Saldana) there’s good news for you—the original Avatar film will be in theaters once again starting September 23 to get us all back into the Avatar spirit before Avatar: The Way of Water premieres on December 16.
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I need no reminders of who Neytiri and Jake of the Jarhead Clan are; I may, however, need a little help to stop instinctively thinking of the latter as a Filthy Xenophile and Infamous Heretic.
Look, a lifetime of WARHAMMER 40,000 is a hard habit to break! (-;
On a more serious note the film will clearly look gorgeous; it’s also interesting to see the Na’vi keeping company with Earthlings (and apparently having friendly enough relations to show up in a functioning base, though given the mention of Mr Stephen Lang forming a part of the cast there’s no guarantee this isn’t a flashback rather than a mending of fences between Earth & Pandora).
I’ll say this. Seeing the trailer on a IMAX 3D screen did activate my fear of the open ocean, especially the whale shot.
So it will be interesting to watch opening day.
I heard “wherever we go” and immediately thought of this:
Hey, hey, hey. Don’t be mean. We don’t have to be mean”
I recently rewatched Avatar and cheered the Na’vi victory at the end, but the little cynical voice in my head was saying “But…have the Earthers forgotten orbital bombardment? If they’re not above wiping out all the natives in person, just drop rocks from orbit and then mine the Unobtainium after it cools.” And I was thinking the entire time that I was surprised they hadn’t cast Kevin Costner as Jake Sully. This was his kind of white savior movie. Sigh, but I am just an embittered old person. Please don’t let me spoil the fun.
The only things I want to know about in that universe probably aren’t going to be covered. Who built Pandora and the system of complicated self-replicating AIs that make up its “ecosystem”? Why did they? Are they still around in some form?
But no one made money betting that Cameron movies would fail. We’ll see how hungry everyone else is for this after so many years.
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“The only things I want to know about in that universe probably aren’t going to be covered. Who built Pandora and the system of complicated self-replicating AIs that make up its “ecosystem”? Why did they? Are they still around in some form?”
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