Avatar (2009 film) before it can reach the Tree of Souls; Quaritch, wearing an AMP suit, escapes from his own damaged aircraft and breaks open the avatar link unit containing Jake's human body, exposing it to Pandora's poisonous atmosphere. Quaritch prepares to slit the throat of Jake's avatar, but Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake from suffocation. With the exceptions of Jake, Norm and a select few others, all humans are expelled from Pandora and sent back to Earth, after which Jake is permanently transferred into his avatar with the aid of the Tree of Souls. In 1994, director James Cameron wrote an
Avatar (2009 film) was going to happen next?". For French filmmaker Luc Besson, "Avatar" opened the doors for him to now create an adaptation of the graphic novel series "Valérian and Laureline" that technologically supports the scope of its source material, with Besson even throwing his original script in the trash and redoing it after seeing the film. "TIME" ranked "Avatar" number 3 in their list of "The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)" also earning it a spot on the magazine's All-TIME 100 list, and IGN listed "Avatar" as number 22 on their list of the top 25 Sci-Fi movies