In Avatar: The Way of Water, the Sully family seeks refuge on Pandora, the moon where the Avatar story is set.
James Cameron’s 2022 film returns to the fictional moon Pandora more than a decade after the first Avatar. Jake Sully, Neytiri, and their children leave their forest home and join the Metkayina, a reef-dwelling Na’vi clan. Much of the film takes place around Pandora’s coastal waters and coral-like reef environments.
Pandora is not a planet in the films; it is a moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system. The setting supports the story’s focus on marine ecosystems, family, colonial conflict, and the Na’vi relationship with nature.
The film’s title refers to the story’s central aquatic setting rather than to the Greek myth directly. The shared name is thematic: both fictional uses evoke a world containing extraordinary possibilities, dangers, and consequences.