Fans will be able to see three new scenes from the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash only in theaters when Avatar: The Way of Water is re-released on October 3, 2025. There’s a catch, however.
The three new Fire and Ash clips will play after The Way of Water, “but each screening will only play one of the three,” according to Variety.
This means the audiences in Theater A will see a different scene than the viewers in Theater B who will see a different clip than the people in Theater C.
Directed by James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water originally opened in theaters in 2022, where it went on to gross over $2.3 billion at the global box office and become the third highest-grossing film of all time behind the original Avatar (2009) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Avatar: The Way of Water was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
IGN’s Tom Jorgensen scored the film an 8 out of 10 in his Avatar: The Way of Water review, calling it “a thoughtful, sumptuous return to Pandora, one which fleshes out both the mythology established in the first film and the Sully family’s place therein. It may not be the best sequel James Cameron has ever made (which is a very high bar), but it’s easily the clearest improvement on the film that preceded it.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash, which was shot simultaneously with The Way of Water, picks up the saga of Jake Sully, Neytiri and their family one year after the events of the prior film.
Two new groups of Na’vi are introduced in this third Avatar film: the Tlalim clan, aka the Windtraders, and the Mangkwan Clan, aka the Ash People. The former are nomads who “sail” the skies like sailors from the Golden Age of Sail, while the latter are baddies who have rejected their deity and the ways of the Na’vi after a volcano left their homeland a desolate wreck covered in ash. David Thewlis plays Peylak, the leader of the Windtraders, while Oona Chaplin plays the Ash People’s sinister leader, Varang.
Avatar: Fire and Ash opens in North American theaters on December 19, 2025.
