In the 2009 film Avatar, Pandora’s native intelligent species is called the Na’vi.
Avatar, directed by James Cameron, is set primarily on Pandora, a fictional moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system. The Na’vi are the moon’s tall, blue-skinned, sentient inhabitants. They live in clans, maintain a spiritual relationship with their environment, and communicate through a constructed language developed for the film.
The film’s Pandora is not the box-bearing figure from Greek mythology. Cameron reused the name for an alien world whose forests, animals, and ecosystems form the setting for the story. This makes Pandora a frequent source of trivia confusion: one meaning belongs to ancient Greek myth, while the other belongs to a science-fiction universe.
Sam Worthington plays Jake Sully, a human who enters a Na’vi avatar body and becomes involved with the Omaticaya clan. Zoe Saldana plays Neytiri, a Na’vi woman who teaches Jake about her people and their world.