Avatar 2’s first trailer needs fewer Na’vi and more Pandora

After 13 long years, and endless delays and date shifts, it’s finally time to return to the world of Pandora with the follow-up to Avatar. First trailer The Way of Water Avatarwill be in front of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and that’ll be the only official way to see it for at least the next week.

The sequel brings back Sam Worthington as Jake Sully and Zoe Saldaña as his Na’vi lover Neytiri, and the first trailer, strangely enough, focuses on them instead of on the beautiful alien world of Pandora. Avatar 2December 16th, 2008:

Disney gave an early look at the trailer before preview screenings. Doctor Strange 2. CinemaCon was a conference for theatre owners and operators that took place last week in Las Vegas. It also gave attendees the chance to witness the debut of the new movie. Avatar 2 You can tease in advance

Trailer 1 Avatar 2It is almost entirely wordless and instead features the beautiful music that you would expect to hear if you are familiar with the original movie. Its primary focus is on the Na’vi and the Avatars, the Na’vi bodies genetically engineered by humans and operated via remote brain interface. The trailer features numerous shots of Na’vi in close-up, riding alien animals, walking with humans, and standing in or running through human-made structures. In other words, the trailer doesn’t feature nearly enough of Pandora.

The original Avatar was released in 2009, the blue CGI Na’vi characters looked great, with stunning facial expressions and surprisingly believable movements. But its real enduring power lay in the beauty and majesty of Pandora’s digital landscape. After all, the planet was so gorgeous that some people reported feeling deeply depressed because they couldn’t live there themselves. It’s even the basis of a wildly successful Disney World location.

Avatar’s earliest trailers focused on the beauty of Pandora’s flora and fauna. There were floating islands covered in vibrant flowers and massive trees, strange alien creatures that seemed like crosses between panthers and lions, and huge flying beasts that took the characters — and more importantly, us — on a soaring journey, to tease some of the planet’s breathtaking terrain.

Trailer 1 The Way of Water AvatarThis trailer misses the opportunity to experience this majesty. This trailer highlights the characters but reduces Pandora to a boring backdrop. The background could just as easily be any forest, ocean, or desert on Earth, with the exception of the focus on four-finned and four-winged animals. Many new characters are briefly shown, and they all look amazing once again. These characters are frequently riding creatures, but the camera is tightly focused on them, obscuring their mounts and leaving the watery expanses of Pandora’s new regions looking bland.

The good news is that what little we do see of Pandora’s new, mostly aquatic regions still looks incredible. It is clear there will be many more stunning shots of the planet than the original movie’s digital rendering. But it’s harder to get excited about returning to the world of Pandora when we barely get to see it. And it’s not like the trailer focuses on plot instead of environments — there are no clear story elements here, apart from a single voice-over line from Jake about how family is a fortress.

Together with other cast members like Sigourney and Giovanni Ribisi. Avatar 2A variety of characters and actors will be added to the cast, including Kate Winslet as well as Michelle Yeoh. Some actors shared stories from their film shoots, some of which were harrowing.

To help prepare audiences for The Way of Water AvatarDisney plans to re-release the original AvatarStarting Sept. 23, in theatres

James Cameron, director of Avatar movies has previously stated that he intends to make five more. In fact, he has reportedly shot many of them. The films will come out approximately every two years, from now to 2028. Disney will also have more opportunities to create trailers that place less emphasis on unseen characters and more on what the film’s creators want us to see.