Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington dive back into Avatar: The Way of Water in stunning first teaser

The first teaser trailer for James Cameron’s stunning, eight-time delayed sequel Avatar: The Way of Water has been released. 

The 20th Century Studios film will finally hits US theaters on December 16, 13 years after the original movie. 

In it, Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and disabled former Marine-turned-Na’vi Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) are now proud parents of four children on the alien moon of Pandora.

‘I know one thing,’ Jake tells Neytiri in the preview. ‘Wherever we go, this family is our fortress.’

There’s a quick glimpse of the blue-skinned couple’s 14-year-old adopted human child – Javier ‘Spider’ Socorro – played by Jack Champion.

‘Ultimately, the sequels are a story about family, and the lengths parents will go through to keep that family together and keep them safe,’ producer Jon Landau told EW in December.

‘I always say that Jim’s movies have universal themes — and really, there’s no more universal theme than family.’

Much of the $250M-budget performance-capture movie and the third film are set in and around the ocean with a clan of reef-dwelling Na’vi called the Metkayina lead by Tonowari (Cliff Curtis).

Kids running on a tree: In it, Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and disabled former Marine-turned-Na’vi Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) are now proud parents of four children on the alien moon of Pandora

‘I know one thing,’ Jake tells Neytiri in the preview. ‘Wherever we go, this family is our fortress’

Blended brood: There’s a quick glimpse of the blue-skinned couple’s 14-year-old adopted human child – Javier ‘Spider’ Socorro – played by Jack Champion

Producer Jon Landau told EW in December: ‘Ultimately, the sequels are a story about family, and the lengths parents will go through to keep that family together and keep them safe’

‘Bora Bora on steroids’: Much of the $250M-budget performance-capture movie and the third film are set in and around the ocean with a clan of reef-dwelling Na’vi called the Metkayina lead by Tonowari (Cliff Curtis)

Take that, Aquaman! Many cast members – including Kate Winslet as Ronal and Sigourney Weaver in a mystery role – were trained to free-dive for over six minutes at at time inside a 900K-gallon tank in Manhattan Beach, CA

Many cast members – including Kate Winslet as Ronal and Sigourney Weaver in a mystery role – were trained to free-dive for over six minutes at at time inside a 900K-gallon tank in Manhattan Beach, CA.

There were only two shots of the humans running the industrial Pandora base Hell’s Gate where they mine a precious mineral called unobtanium.

One character could be seen walking tall with help from a large loader while pointing at things at the construction site alongside another human and a Na’vi.

Contrasting the beauty: There were only two shots of the humans running the industrial Pandora base Hell’s Gate where they mine a precious mineral called unobtanium

Plot thickens: One character could be seen walking tall with help from a large loader while pointing at things at the construction site alongside another human and a Na’vi

Throwback to James Cameron’s Aliens! It looked different than the loader manned in the first film by the late Colonel Miles Quaritch (L, Stephen Lang), who’s somehow magically resurrected to play the villain in all three sci-fi sequels 

A little help? Fans that need a refresher can catch the critically-acclaimed original Avatar in theaters on September 23 – 13 years after becoming the top-grossing film of all time by amassing $2.84B globally 

It looked different than the loader manned in the first film by the late Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who’s somehow magically resurrected to play the villain in all three sci-fi sequels. 

Fans that need a refresher can catch the critically-acclaimed original Avatar in theaters on September 23 – 13 years after becoming the top-grossing film of all time by amassing $2.84B globally.

‘I can get choked up just talking about it. I was able to see just 20 minutes of the second installment, right before the year ended, last year. And I was speechless. I was moved to tears,’ Zoe told Kevin McCarthy on March 11.

Zoe told Kevin McCarthy on March 11: ‘I was able to see just 20 minutes of the second installment, right before the year ended, last year. And I was speechless. I was moved to tears’

The half-Dominican, half-Puerto Rican 43-year-old added: ‘Jim was finally able to crack that challenge – that whole thing that you can’t imitate water, virtually, through performance capture…He did it. It’s powerful, it’s compelling’

‘Only in theatres!’ Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel, Oona Chaplin, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, and Jemaine Clement also star in The Way of the Water

‘It’s definitely a leap from the first Avatar, so you have to brace yourself for it. It’s going to be an adventure you won’t forget.’

Saldana added: ‘Jim was finally able to crack that challenge – that whole thing that you can’t imitate water, virtually, through performance capture. That was just a challenge that he had taken upon himself, and it took him years, and he did it. He did it. It’s powerful, it’s compelling.’

Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel, Oona Chaplin, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, and Jemaine Clement also star in The Way of the Water.