'Avatar' is the sto­ry of an ex-​Ma­rine who finds him­self thrust in­to hos­til­i­ties on an alien plan­et filled with ex­ot­ic life forms. As an Avatar, a hu­man mind in an alien body, he finds him­self torn be­tween two worlds, in a des­per­ate fight for his own sur­vival and that of the in­dige­nous peo­ple. More than ten years in the mak­ing, Avatar marks Cameron's re­turn to fea­ture di­rect­ing since helm­ing 1997's Ti­tan­ic, the high­est gross­ing film of all time and win­ner of eleven Os­cars® in­clud­ing Best Pic­ture. WE­TA Dig­i­tal, renowned for its work in The Lord of the Rings Tril­o­gy and King Kong, will in­cor­po­rate new in­tu­itive CGI tech­nolo­gies to trans­form the en­vi­ron­ments and char­ac­ters in­to pho­to­re­al­is­tic 3D im­agery that will trans­port the au­di­ence in­to the alien world rich with imag­i­na­tive vis­tas, crea­tures and char­ac­ters. Writ­ten and di­rect­ed by James Cameron and star­ring Sam Wor­thing­ton, Zoe Sal­dana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Ro­driguez, and Sigour­ney Weaver. In the­aters De­cem­ber 18.