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Avatar (2009): Pandora, the Cast and the Craft Behind the Na’vi

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Avatar builds its science-fiction conflict around a change in allegiance. Jake Sully arrives on Pandora serving a human operation that wants access to the moon's resources. His encounters with Neytiri and the Na’vi make that mission personal: he must decide what he owes to the people whose world he has entered. James Cameron's 2009 film joins that familiar adventure structure to an elaborate digital environment. Film details: Written and directed by James Cameron; produced by Cameron and Jon Landau. The studio's film page lists the original US release as 18 December 2009, a runtime of 2 hours 41 minutes and a PG-13 rating. Sam Worthington at the premiere of The Debt , Toronto International Film Festival, 14 September 2010. Photo: Tony Shek, Wikimedia Commons / Flickr , CC BY-SA 2.0 ; no further crop. This is an event portrait, not an Avatar still. Jake Sully's assignment on Pandora Set in 2154, the story follows Jake, a former Marine who uses a wheelchair, to a ...