The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former U.S. Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Na’vi, a sentient humanoid race, who are considered primitive, yet are more physically capable than humans. Standing three meters tall (approximately 10 feet), with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Na’vi live in harmony with their unspoiled world.

Good old Nix just posted the international trailer for you and I’ll add this cool behind the scenes view of how “Avatar” was first imagined and then brought to the screen.
James Cameron claims he had a dream where the planet, setting, characters and story came to him and I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on that. I’m the trusting type. Less then two months to go before we see what James has been up to all these years. Can’t wait. Via Aintitcool.

Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 16, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The film is Lightstorm Entertainment's latest project, and focuses on an epic conflict on a far-away world called Pandora, where humans and the native species of Pandora, the Na'vi, engage in war over the planet's resources and existence.

The film will be released in 2D and 3D formats, along with an IMAX 3D release in selected theaters. The film is being touted as a breakthrough in terms of filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filmmaking with cameras that were specially designed for the film's production, and has already been slated for two awards.

I love going to movies but one of the things that always gets me is when I’m seeing a movie I want to watch but am not thrilled to see and a trailer that looks awesome and better than the movie I’m about to watch crashes my party.
This might be the case this weekend as “Avatar” is getting a juicy new trailer providing some serious competition for whatever film might be following it. Coming Soon says it’ll clock in at 3 minutes and 30 seconds of presumably awesome. Apparently this will be the trailer of note, showcasing more story elements, crazy action, etc. It will not be in 3D though from the looks of it. We won’t be getting the trailer ourselves for a few days after and I know it’ll be great but don’t even think of judging this movie based on a snapshot 2D view.