A new villain aligns with a familiar one in “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the third installment in James Cameron’s franchise about the blue inhabitants of the distant earthlike moon Pandora. Arriving on the scene this time is Varang (Oona Chaplin), a passionate figure whose desire to rule is as strong as her desire to ruin.

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Infrared and UV cameras track his every move inside a 680,000-gallon tank while the hydrodynamically obsessed director James Cameron runs an Avatar scene over and over again. There’s a scene in Avatar: Fire and Ash, filmed three times across six years, where Jake and his son, Lo’ak, pull themselves onto a rocky ledge after a fight.

Here is everything to know about the upcoming third installment to the "Avatar" series, "Avatar: Fire and Ash."

Cameron told Variety that Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 are essentially one story, with Fire and Ash completing narrative threads begun in The Way of Water. But he also confirmed that Kiri’s story extends across all five planned films, making her arguably the central character of the entire saga despite Jake being the protagonist.

Fire and Ash” fooled this humble critic into thinking it was an advertisement for a re-release of “Avatar: The Way of Water.,” the 2022 sequel to James Cameron’s record-breaking, science fiction epic.

Seemingly pivoting into story-mode, Sam Worthington explained that when an actor works with James Cameron, the “truth is in the details.” What that evidently means is that if there is a scene where a character tastes something gross, the best way to go about capturing that moment is to have the actor taste something gross.