AVATAR 2 First Look Image: Meet Jake And Neytiri’s Adopted Human Son, Spider

A new image has been released from the upcoming sequel Avatar 2 that introduces fans to Jake and Neytiri’s adopted human son, Spider. The new character is named Miles Socorro, aka Spider, and he is played by Jack Champion. “Born at the military base on Pandora but too small to return to Earth, he’s been raised in the bioluminescent jungle by Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña).”

The film’s producer Jon Landau talked to Empire about the new character, saying:

“Jake took him in but Neytiri always saw him as one of the people who destroyed her home and killed her father. So you have all these dynamics playing out.”

The report says that while the new adventure promises plenty of deep-dives into Pandora’s oceans and all the epic combat you expect from a James Cameron movie, there’ll be some real family drama in there as well, as Landau explains:

“If you look at what Jim does in his movies, he writes in universal themes that are bigger than the genre of any one movie. This time around, we’re taking Jake and Neytiri and building the most universal theme of all around them. Which is family. Jake comes from the human world, Neytiri from the Na’vi world. So, they’re like a modern mixed-race couple, raising kids who perhaps feel they don’t belong to one world or another.”

It sounds like Cameron is putting just as much story and life into these upcoming films as he did in the original. Check out the new photo of Spider above, and watch Avatar 2 in theaters on December 16th, 2022.