Battle for Pandora trailer: Avatar mockbuster now available from The Asylum

The Asylum is known for their mockbuster movies, and when James Cameron‘s Avatar was released in 2009 they released the Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation Princess of Mars with a note on the poster: “The classic story that inspired James Cameron’s Avatar“. A sequel to Avatar is heading to theatres this month, and this time The Asylum has a mockbuster that is even more obvious in its attempt to draw in viewers who are anxious to see something Avatar-esque. Coinciding with the release of Avatar: The Way of Water is the release of The Asylum’s Battle for Pandora! You can watch the trailer for Battle for Pandora in the embed above.

Battle for Pandora is now available to watch on VOD, and is showing in the following theatres:

Laemmle Town Center 5 – Los Angeles, CA

Hickory Ridge Cinemas – Brunswick, OH

Trylon Cinema – Minneapolis, MN

O Cinema South Beach – Miami Beach, FL

Aurora Cineplex – Roswell, GA

Directed by Noah Luke (Thor: God of Thunder) from a screenplay by Rolfe Kanefsky (Night of the Tommyknockers), Battle for Pandora has the following synopsis: After a help signal from a research vessel makes it back to Earth, the U.S. Space Force sends a rescue ship to Pandora, a moon of Saturn’s. But when they try to land, they discover Pandora is already inhabited by a highly evolved humanoid species that won’t give up their Earthling prisoners without a fight.

The film stars Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Mark Riketson (Fatal Memory), and Kristos Andrews (The Bay).

Not only does this one have a blue alien face on the poster and a setting with the same name as the planet Avatar is set on, it also features an alien lifeform that’s reminiscent of the water face from Cameron’s The Abyss and the T-1000 from Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day. So there are Cameron influences all over Battle for Pandora.

What did you think of the Battle for Pandora trailer? Are you a fan of The Asylum’s mockbusters? Let us know by leaving a comment below.