James Cameron’s Avatar is still more than a year away from release, but we may have the first teaser trailer for it. Or, this could be some sort of fan forgery.

The video below has been circulating around on YouTube, and it seems to be a teaser for Avatar, but it’s also the sort of thing which could easily be faked by just about anyone with run of the mill video editing software and some old stock footage. If this really is the first teaser for Avatar… well you’d hope James Cameron would be able to come up with a better way to introduce his new mega-movie than the video equivalent of two guys playing around with a fast forward button

Watch it below. Is this the real deal?