With Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third part of the series will start before the end of 2025. The main characters Neytiri and Jake will meet the new Ash clan.
Avatar 1 and 2 are both among the top three most successful films of all time (via Box Office Mojo ). Will the third film by master director James Cameron also make it into the top three? We’ll find out on December 17, 2025, when Fire and Ash takes us back to the colorful world of Pandora.
To prepare for the upcoming release, there are now a few new images. In an interview with Empire, Caneron also reveals new plot details
First images and the introduction of the new peoples
New to the series is the Ash Clanand the Na’vi, led by the selfless Varang (Oona Chaplin). You can see a first picture of the people here:
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Avatar 3 will introduce the Ash Clan of the Na’vi, with Varang as their no-nonsense figurehead.
“Varang is the leader of a people who have gone through an incredible hardship,” James Cameron tells Empire. “She’s hardened by that.”
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According to James Cameron, the clan has been scarred by a difficult past. He says specifically:
Varang is the leader of a people who have experienced an incredible catastrophe. These experiences have made her hardened. She would do anything for her people, even things we would consider evil.
And what element is still missing? Exactly, wind! That’s why the so-called “Wind Traders”are coming onto the scene in Avatar: Fire and Ash. Here you can see the first concept art:
EXCLUSIVE
Meet the Wind Traders from Avatar 3.
“They’re nomadic traders, equivalent to the camel caravans of the Spice Road back in the Middle Ages,” explains James Cameron. “Like all Na’vi, they live in a symbiosis with their creatures.”
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The Wind Traders are “nomadic traders comparable to the camel caravans on the spice route in the Middle Ages.” Cameron continues:
And you know, they’re just fun. Like all Na’vi, they live in symbiosis with their creatures. If you have nautic blood in your veins, you’ll want to be on [their] ship.
So in part 3, we welcome two completely different peoples, who have been shaped differently by their respective experiences.
What else we know about Avatar: Fire and Ash
Plot: After the events of Avatar: The Way of Water Jake (Sam Worthington) and Ney’tiri (Zoe Saldana) live in the water kingdom of the Metkayina clan. However, Jake and his family cannot live in peace as long as Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) is still alive. They fear that the general may still want to take revenge on them.
James Cameron and Rick Jaffa (Planet of the Apes: Prevolution, Jurassic World) are co-writing the script, as they did for the previous installment.
The cast currently consists of:
- Sam Worthington as Jake Sully
- Zoe Saldana as Ney’tiri
- Sigourney Weaver as Kiri
- Stephen Land as Colonel Miles Quaritch
- Kate Winslet as Ronal
- Cliff Curtis as Manowar
- Joel David Moore as Norm Spellman
- Oona Chaplin as Varang
Five parts are planned so far for the sci-fi fantasy series. Accordingly, Avatar 4 will be released in 2029, followed by Avatar 5 two years later. James Cameron will also be the director and screenwriter for all further works. What the upcoming projects will be about is not yet known.