Avatar: Fire and Ash Villain Varang Revealed in New Poster, First Trailer to Be Shown With The Fantastic Four: First Steps in Theaters This Weekend

Avatar: Fire and Ash, the 3rd movie successful James Cameron’s blockbuster franchise, is picking up the gait up of its December merchandise with the uncover of its antagonist and confirmation that its debut trailer volition beryllium shown with The Fantastic Four: First Steps successful theaters this weekend.

The image, below, shows Varang, person of the Na’vi Mangkwan Clan, aka the Ash People. Played by Oona Chaplin (Talisa Maegyr successful Game of Thrones), Varang and her clan person forsaken the Na'vi deity Eywa aft a volcano near their homeland a desolate wreck covered successful ash.

Avatar: Fire and Ash villain Varang. Image credit: Disney.

Speaking to Empire mag backmost successful January, Cameron said of the character: “Varang is the person of a radical who person gone done an unthinkable hardship. She's hardened by that. She volition bash thing for them, adjacent things that we would see to beryllium evil. One happening we wanted to bash successful this movie is not beryllium black-and-white simplistic. We’re trying to germinate beyond the ‘all humans are bad, each Na’vi are good’ paradigm.

“[Oona Chaplin] is truthful bully that I didn’t rather admit however bully her show is until we got the Wētā animation back. She’s an enemy, an adversarial quality but [Chaplin] makes her consciousness truthful existent and alive.”

Later, successful April, Cameron expanded connected what to expect from Avatar: Fire and Ash. “The Sully household are truly enactment done the ringer connected this 1 arsenic they look not lone the quality invaders, but caller adversaries: the Ash People,” Cameron said astatine CinemaCon.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps, meanwhile, comes retired July 25 and kickstarts Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Expect to spot the Avatar 3 trailer up of it.

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