Avatar is the 2009 science-fiction film in which Pandora is the fictional moon inhabited by the Na’vi.
Directed by James Cameron, Avatar follows former Marine Jake Sully after he joins the Avatar Program on Pandora. Human mining operations seek unobtanium, while the Na’vi defend their home and way of life.
Pandora is not a planet in the film’s setting. It is a moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system. The film’s environmental and colonial themes are expressed through the conflict over Pandora’s resources.
The moon’s name echoes the Greek myth, but Cameron’s story is an original science-fiction setting rather than a direct adaptation of Pandora’s myth.