M. Night Shyamalan's live action big screen adaptation of the popular anime show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, isn't due out in theaters until July 2nd, of 2010, but that didn't stop the studio from releasing a teaser trailer.
This trailer reveals the title character of the movie, Aang, training inside before he comes outside to face hundreds of ships firing at him. Watch the trailer below for The Last Airbender.
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Dev Patel, best known - or only known, really - for his role in Slumdog Millionaire, has been cast as Zuko in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed live-action adaptation of The Last Airbender.
According to Variety, the actor will take on the role initially accepted by Jesse McCartney, who backed out to conflicts with his tour schedule.
Patel joins newcomer Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz (Deck the Halls) and Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) in the The Last Airbender.
Its production begins in mid-March, with a July 2010 release date scheduled.
M. Night Shyamalan has reportedly cast his upcoming live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon series The Last Airbender.
According to Entertainment Weekly: "After an open casting call in Texas, Shyamalan discovered karate star Noah Ringer and offered him the part of Airbender's 12-year old hero, Aang, an Avatar with superpowers who must stop the Fire Nation from destroying the world."
The magazine also reports that Jackson Rathbone (who plays Jasper Hale in Twilight) is in talks to portray Aang's friend Sokka, while Nicola Peltz (Deck the Halls) has been cast as Sokka's sister Katara in the production.
As for the role of Zuko, the villainous, exiled prince of the Fire Nation, the Shyamalan is said to be in negotiations with singer-actor Jesse McCartney.
M. Night Shyamalan told SCI FI Wire that he's excited to be directing The Last Airbender, a live-action fantasy-adventure movie based on Nickelodeon's animated SF/action/martial-arts series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
"It has martial arts and spirituality and the supernatural, and it has Buddhist philosophy and Hindu philosophy - really, everything I talk about - all in one movie," Shyamalan said.
The Sixth Sense director added:
"It has a mythology. It's Shakespearean. It's all this incredible stuff, and it has a balance. All these movies are plays on magic, whether it's Lord of the Rings or The Matrix or Star Wars even, and each one of them relates to me in a different way, in its belief system."
Up next, of course, Shyamalan is responsible for The Happening. It opens this weekend.
