Shyamalan Has Cast his Airbenders
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2010) Movie — By Nix on December 10, 2008
M. Night Shyamalan has gone down to Texas and found himself the lead for his upcoming mega franchise “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, which as I hear, has just been shortened to “The Last Airbender”, probably to keep it from being confused with James Cameron’s oft-talked about but rarely seen “Avatar”. The film’s main character, a 12-year old name Aang, will be played by Noah Ringer, a karate-kickin’ champ from Texas. Well, at least you can’t say the kid can’t fight, cause, you know, he probably had to kick a lot of tail to get that “champ” tag, because I’m sure they don’t hand that out to everyone, or else you would be calling me Champ Nix right now, but you aren’t, so they don’t. Moving on.
EW has your Airbender casting call:
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. Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone has been asked to play Aang’s pal Sokka, while Nicola Peltz (Deck the Halls) will star as his sister Katara. Genial singer Jesse McCartney, meanwhile, is negotiating to play against type in the role of the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko.
The first in the potentially lucrative fantasy franchise opens in theaters July 2010. Two more movies are planned, but nowadays in Hollywood, every movie is a “planned trilogy” until the box office receipts come in.
By the way, the whole arrow on the forehead thing sported by the lead character? Worst tramp stamp — EVER.
Below: Fantasy convention geeks: good, clean fun, or the bane of mankind’s existence? You decide.
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I don’t see Shyamalan is a right one to direct this movie. His latest works just sucks, and can he handle action/martial art movie, don’t think so.
and Aang is asian, damn , this will be just as bad as that dragon ball.
ok the whole cast is crap…..Jesse McCartney as Zuko is not a good fit.
i agree on that, Jesse should not play Zuko because the movie would completely suck and if they do make a movie it better be a good on becuase Avatar is a good show and i will be pissed if they mess it up with a crapy movie
ok im like in luv with zuko and if they put tht FREAK in there to be him, there gonna get some hate mail
I totally luv Zuko too! but if they put crap like that in there… Lets just say you wouldn’t want to be them!
yeah this movie looks like it’s gonna be terrible. me and my brothers watch avatar all the time but it looks like making a movie of it is worthless. it’s gonna be the worst ever! i mean i think it would be cool and all to have the chance to act in a movie and my brother says that i look a lot like Katara but there would be no point in acting in a movie that’s gonna suck.
looks retarded. cast….stupid
Avatar is a good show. Why Oh Why mess it up with a crappy ass movie? And the people need to be asian. SERIOUSLY! If you ask anyone they will tell you that I am the biggest fan of Avatar they know, so if these people make a shitty movie, they’d better start filing for bankruptcy!