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
James Cameron's unrealized projects film. Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, star of "The Hunger Games", "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Joy", had been cast to play Audrey Mestre. Francis Lawrence, director of "The Hunger Games", was directing. The film was being compared to Cameron’s earlier blockbuster movie, "Titanic", and was scheduled to be released in 2017. Since then, there has been no further announcements. James Cameron's unrealized projects The following is a list of unproduced James Cameron projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, Canadian film director James Cameron has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under