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Shyamalan's 'Avatar' also to bigscreen
Filmmaker to create his version of Nick series
By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
M. Night Shyamalan
Shyamalan
'Avatar'
'Avatar'
M. Night Shyamalan and Paramount are planning their own "Avatar" project, based on the popular Nickelodeon kids TV series.
The filmmaker has inked a three-picture deal with Par's MTV Films and Nick Movies to adapt animated kiddie skein "Avatar: The Last Airbender" for the bigscreen. He will write, direct and produce the potential kids franchise.
Film version will be live-action.
Nick TV's "Avatar," which is set in an Asian-influenced fantasy world permeated by martial arts and magic, follows the adventures of the successor to a long line of Avatars who must put aside his irresponsible ways and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Created by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, "Avatar" debuted on the Nicktoons lineup in February 2005. Aimed at 6- to 11-year-olds, show has nabbed strong ratings, including outside its intended demo. It is among the top 10 animated series on all of TV among kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14.
Paramount confirmed the pact with Shyamalan just hours after Fox Filmed Entertainment announced it is greenlighting James Cameron's "Avatar," the director's first feature since "Titanic."
Although they may have the same name, the two projects have nothing to do with each other in terms of storylines. Cameron's is a sci-fi action-adventure that he's been working on for 11 years.
Par said it has registered the name of its project with the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
A Fox rep said, "We own the movie title 'Avatar.' There won't be another film called 'Avatar' coming from anyplace."
MTV Films and Nick Movies prexy Scott Aversano, who reports to Paramount prexy Gail Berman, was instrumental in striking the pact with Shyamalan.
“Avatar†marks the first time Shyamalan has taken on a project that didn’t originate from his own source material. He is also shopping other projects, so “Avatar†may not be the first into production.
Shyamalan took "Lady in the Water" to Warner Bros. after a bitter break with Disney, which had passed on the pic. He dissed some at the Mouse House in a book that was published just as Warners opened "Lady," which fell flat at the summer box office.
Why the fuck does it have to be live action? Couldn't it be full-length animated? I would love that.
Also, Aang is going to be impossible to cast. No one old enough to play him could possibly manage to pull off how utterly fucking adorable he is without it becoming the most annoying thing ever.
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Why the fuck does it have to be live action? Couldn't it be full-length animated? I would love that.
Also, Aang is going to be impossible to cast. No one old enough to play him could possibly manage to pull off how utterly fucking adorable he is without it becoming the most annoying thing ever.
Unless they bring in complete outsiders for this movie, I doubt it will work at ALL.
Dakota Fanning as Aang!
Oh dear god.
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OH FUCK WHAT ABOUT TOPH
THEY'RE GOING TO GET TOPH COMPLETELY WRONG
SHE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS IN ANYTHING EVER
AND THEY ARE GOING TO FUCKING RUIN HER
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At least M night had sixth sense.
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are you trying to imply that the sixth sense was not patently ridiculous
i mean, if you liked it, that's cool and all i guess
at least boll realizes that he is making insipid garbage
tell me why.
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I heard that James Cameron was releasing a movie called Avatar in 2008 or 2009, and I thought it was about the Nick cartoon.
Now there's really gonna be a movie based on the Nick cartoon.
P.S. from what I've seen of the Avatar cartoon, it's not so bad.
A live action version is going to be shit.
Also, Aang is going to be impossible to cast. No one old enough to play him could possibly manage to pull off how utterly fucking adorable he is without it becoming the most annoying thing ever.
unbreakable was a good movie
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that it will be madness, even
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shymalan is worst
boll makes bad movies on purpose and runs away with a truckload of money
he's not really a director at all
more like a clever money fox
that's a fun way to spend some time
avatar: the last airbender is a really good cartoon, as a live action movie done by M. Night? meh.
Madness?
THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*boot*
Unless they bring in complete outsiders for this movie, I doubt it will work at ALL.
Dakota Fanning as Aang!
Oh dear god.
THEY'RE GOING TO GET TOPH COMPLETELY WRONG
SHE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS IN ANYTHING EVER
AND THEY ARE GOING TO FUCKING RUIN HER
At the end of the films, it'll turn out that they [spoiler:ca7e987fd9]were just cartoons.[/spoiler:ca7e987fd9]
I just like cartoons and martial arts
and this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFR2C4hfu2Y
awful music but cool shit regardless