Studios in Wellington, New Zealand THE PLOT The film is set in 2154: given that the natural resources of planet Earth are now running out, an organization settles on Pandora, a lush planet in the Alpha Centauri system, to exploit its deposits of unobtanium, a fundamental mineral for produce energy. THE PLOT To better explore the planet, they exploit the Avatar project, which consists of: human-Na'vi hybrids into which the consciousness of the people whose DNA was used to create the hybrids themselves is temporarily transferred, each person connected to their own avatar thanks to connection capsules. The main protagonists The main characters are: Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington. Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana. Colonel Miles Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang. The director is James Cameron.