Avatar (2009 film) Avatar (2009 film) Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's
Avatar: The Last Airbender Parks, and two Lego . An art book was published in June 2010. The complete series was released on Blu-ray on June 5, 2018 for the 10th anniversary of season 3's finale. The series inspired a critically panned but financially successful live-action film, "The Last Airbender", directed by M. Night Shyamalan and considered one of the worst movies ever made. An animated sequel series, "The Legend of Korra", aired from 2012 to 2014. A new live-action remake of the series by its original creators produced for Netflix was announced in September 2018. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" is set in a