Are you one of the many who are still waiting for an apology from M. Night Shyamalan for The Happening? As you know he has a new movie this year, an adaptation of the series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Since Cameron practically now owns the first word, the title has been simply called THE LAST AIRBENDER. You’ve seen the teaser and the banners, while the full trailer should arrive soon enough. M. Night Shyamalan talked to LA Times recently and explained how his wife talked him into making this movie and why he thought AIRBENDER is more or less similar to The Matrix…
“She made us watch as a family and all four of us were hooked,”
“I was like, ‘This would make a killer movie. And my wife who really has been kind of in neutral about my career was insane about it. Insane about it: You have to do it. This is it. This is the one.’”
So the next time his wife watches The View on TV, she’s gonna go to her hubby M. Night and say ‘this is it, you have to do a movie version of this’ and we’re all doomed.
“We get to see the process of someone mastering themselves through the three seasons to get to peace,”
“In the first ‘Matrix,’ you realize that what you’re seeing is all false,”
“Those are really ancient ideas. Basic old, old religion. This has that as well. So if you go on the journey and you’ll feel that epiphany on top of a great roller-coaster ride. It’s going to be something.”
Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.
Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film “The Last Airbender” is the opening chapter in Aang’s struggle to survive.
THE LAST AIRBENDER opens July 2nd, 2010
I’m really pulling for the guy. I’ve honestly been a fan of this work. I don’t think he’s a Spielberg, Cuaron, Burton or even a Tarantino, but I’ve really enjoyed his work, up to The Happening. I never saw it, but it was his only movie that I didn’t feel COMPELLED to see.
I hope he pulls through with this one