Disney has revealed the trailer for Avatar: Fire & Ash following the footage leaking after the teaser was put exclusively in theaters last week in front of Fantastic Four: First Steps.

The trailer promises “some of the most beautiful footage seen all year. The visuals are on another level, and it should be the biggest movie of 2025.

The trailer returns moviegoers to Pandora and introduces two new tribes, the Wind Traders and the fire-hurling Ash People clan.

The footage shows Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), his partner Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and his Na’vi family engaged in intense arial fighting with the Ash People clan. There’s also the return of the sinister Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), now sporting dramatic white, black and red warpaint, suggesting he might have made an alliance with the Ash People. At one point, a captive Kiri (Sigourney Weaver) is told by a new villain, Varang (Oona Chaplin), “Your goddess has no dominion here.” While Sully warns Neytiri, “We cannot live like this,” and is taken captive and paraded before the Pandora occupation forces. And young Spider (Jack Champion) seems like he’s in jeopardy quite a bit.

The first sequel, The Way of Water, in 2022, charted as the third-highest-grossing movie of all time (with $2.3 billion), beating expectations and silencing doubters that the Oscar winner could pull off another Avatar blockbuster.

Few now doubt Cameron’s ability to generate massive box office returns with the Avatar franchise. Confidence is high that Fire & Ash will deliver when it’s released as major holiday tentpole on December 19.

Cameron has teased that Fire and Ash will be longer than The Way of Water, which was 3 hours and 12 minutes.

“We had too many great ideas packed into act Way of Water,” Cameron said. “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.’ Fire & Ash will actually be a little bit longer than Way of Water.”

Cameron plans five Avatar films and has said he intends to direct them all, as well. Much of the footage, Cameron has said, has already been shot. Avatar 4 is set for Dec. 21, 2029, and Avatar 5 will arrive Dec. 19, 2031.

Cameron hopes to adapt Charles Pellegrino books Ghosts of Hiroshima and Last Train From Hiroshima as soon as Avatar schedule permits.

The film would tell the true story of a Japanese man during World War II who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima and the explosion in Nagasaki.  It would mark Cameron’s first non-Avatar film since 1997’s Titanic.

The official description of Fire and Ash: “Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief after Neteyam’s death, encountering new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.”