James Cameron admits to “break the mould” with the new Avatar: Fire and Ash calling it a must 

James Cameron's late cinematic masterpiece, Avatar: Fire and Ash is arriving soon, and the director has been dropping more and more details about the highly anticipated project. Slated to release this December, Avatar: Fire and Ash will explore more of Na'vi and Pandora's journey and will closely focus on two new clans in the universe, the Wind Clan and the Ash Clan.

Talking to Empire, Cameron talked of Avatar: Fire and Ash's brilliance and said,

“Yeah, we’ve got some really clever action set-pieces. You can get your blood up in this movie. But what excites me as an artist who recently turned 70 and has kind of done all that stuff is not only the opportunity to get to do it again, but to get to a level of character and intrigue you haven’t seen before in an Avatar movie.”

He further exacerbated the audience's excitement for the film and said,

“We’re just starting to riff on it and twist it and turn it. It’s a tricky thing. We could be getting high on our own supply here, and everybody who looks at it goes, ‘Fuck, that’s not what I signed up for.’ But if you’re not making brave choices, you’re wasting everybody’s time and money. That alone is not sufficient to create success, but it’s necessary. You’ve got to break the mould every fricking time.” From a filmmaker who always breaks the mould, that’s saying something.

What do we know about Avatar: Fire and Ash's new clans?

Although James Cameron has kept most of the details surrounding Avatar: Fire and Ash under wraps, he did reveal quite a lot about what to expect from the two new clans that will be introduced in the new film.

He explained that the Ash Clan will be led by Varang, who will be played by Oona Chaplin. Praising her performance in the film, Cameron has said that she “is so good that I didn’t quite appreciate how good her performance is until we got the Wētā animation back.”

Talking about the Ash Clan, Cameron said,

“Varang is the leader of a people who have gone through an incredible hardship. She's hardened by that. She will do anything for them, even things that we would consider to be evil. One thing we wanted to do in this film is not be black-and-white simplistic. We’re trying to evolve beyond the ‘all humans are bad, all Na’vi are good’ paradigm,”

He also talked about the Wind Clan and said,

“They’re nomadic traders, equivalent to the camel caravans of the Spice Road back in the Middle Ages. And you know, they’re just fun. Like all Na’vi, they live in a symbiosis with their creatures. If you’ve got any nautical blood in your veins, you’ll want to be on [their] ship,”

Avatar: Fire and Ash is currently undergoing editing and is set to release this December.