Neytiri

Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite, also known as Neytiri Sully, is a fictional character in the American science fiction film series Avatar, created by James Cameron. While in a Pandoran forest, Neytiri meets a lost Jake Sully, and saves him from a pack of viperwolves. Neytiri soon becomes his teacher, helping him complete several tasks, and eventually falls in love and mates with him. Neytiri fights alongside Jake in the assault on the Tree of Souls and saves him from being killed by Colonel Miles Quaritch, and driving the RDA off of Pandora. Over the following fifteen years, Neytiri has three children with Jake: Neteyam, Lo'ak, and Tuk, and adopts two others: Kiri and Miles "Spider" Socorro. The character is portrayed by Zoe Saldaña in Avatar (2009) and its sequels, including Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and the upcoming Avatar 3. She also appears in literature, including various comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. Various merchandise of the character have also been produced, including action figures and toys produced for McDonald's Happy Meals. Production history Origins The origins for Neytiri date back to the late 1970s, when James Cameron was preparing Xenogenesis, a short film intended to be used as a pitch for a feature-length film that never happened. The film features a painting of a female blue skinned alien. He later stated that after the film was turned down, he kept thinking about the idea of a blue skinned alien and decided to recycle it when developing Avatar in the early 1990s (which was then known as Project 880). Further inspiration for the look of Neytiri came from the description of a dream his mother had in which she saw a blue-skinned woman 12 feet (4 m) tall. In earlier drafts of the screenplay, Neytiri was known as "Zuleika Te Kaha Polenoma".