The Last Airbender (2010)

[Nyokou]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/15/...ed-from-title/

Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan will definitely be following up his June blockbuster contender, The Happening, with Paramount’s adaptation of the hit Nicktoons series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The ambitious live-action film is now due on July 2, 2010.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45794

"It will be tough to keep it PG from PG-13," he said about doing a PG family film. "It will be tricky. I don't know how to make a PG movie so that's going to be much harder, because with R, everything was no problem."

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article...u_want_to_read

Avatar is a 100-percent live-action film right?

MN: Yes, it's 100-percent live-action.

So what are your thoughts on the upcoming Avatar film? Excited? Appalled? Unsure?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXJ2IVLGcbo

Mike made it clear that at least the first live action movie is a very faithful retelling of Book One: Water.

So just in case you missed the panel at Comic Con, you can watch the Q&A Session there and other clips. I think it's going to be great, especially since the original creators are both excited and trustworthy in Shyamalan's ability to make the first movie. I really can't wait.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/The-L...nder-7834.html

- Paramount is planning to make it a trilogy, with the first Shyamalan directed movie currently using the working title of Water.

http://movies.about.com/od/moviesinp...nder061108.htm

"Casting has begun and we've seen thousands of kids. I believe we've found the next superstars," revealed Shyamalan.