Avatar 2’s first trailer is missing the magic of the original movie
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. The first trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water will play in front of Doctor Strange in 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 2 is set for release on Dec. 16.
Disney provided an advance look at the trailer ahead of preview screenings of Doctor Strange 2. Attendees of CinemaCon, an industry event for theater owners and operators held last week in Las Vegas, also got to see the first Avatar 2 teaser in advance.
The first trailer for Avatar 2 is largely wordless, carried instead by the soaring music you might expect if you remember the first movie well. 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.
When 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
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