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Will 'The Last Airbender' Get A Sequel? M. Night Shyamalan Ponders Potential 'Book 2' Adaptation

Posted 9/3/10 1:01 pm EST by in News


I'll admit to being a little late to the game when it came to "Avatar: The Last Airbender," the brilliant Nickelodeon animated series that provided the inspiration for M. Night Shyamalan's live-action feature "The Last Airbender." Now that it is on my radar, I'm hooked (as anyone following me on Twitter can probably attest) — and I'm probably not alone in wondering if the less-than-stellar response to Shyamalan's adaptation means Aang and Zuko are finished with the live-action world.

When MTV News spoke to Shyamalan during the junket for "Devil," the first of the "Night Chronicles" thrillers he conceived and produced (but didn't write or direct), we asked if the $250 million and growing box office for "The Last Airbender" means we'll see "Book 2" of the series on the big screen.

"I don't [know], because there are so many factors they take into account," said Shyamalan. Read More...

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M. Night Shyamalan Says 'The Last Airbender' DVD Will Include Cut Comedy Scenes, No Kyoshi Warriors

Posted 7/6/10 10:31 am EST by in News, Video


"The Last Airbender" didn't win its opening weekend, but it did manage to overcome less-than-stellar reviews on its way to a hefty $70.5 million haul since its Thursday premiere.

While the jury's still out on whether we'll get a chance to see the second chapter of Aang's quest to save the world and unite the elemental nations, one thing's for sure: "The Last Airbender" will arrive on DVD (and Blu-Ray) down the road. When I had the chance to chat with "Airbender" director M. Night Shyamalan, I asked him what we're likely to see on the DVD release of the film — and whether we'll eventually get a "director's cut" of "The Last Airbender."

"All my movies are the director's cut, so that's it," he laughed. "You get to watch it in the movie theaters." Read More...

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M. Night Shyamalan Reveals 'The Last Airbender' Deleted Scenes

Posted 7/2/10 3:59 pm EST by in Video


"The Last Airbender" hit theaters this week, offering moviegoers a live-action adaptation of the hit Nickelodeon animated series — or more accurately, its first season.

In order to cram 20 episodes of cartoon story into 103 minutes of movie, however, some parts of the "Airbender" tale had to be left on the editing room floor. And when I spoke to director M. Night Shyamalan about the film, I asked him about the scenes that didn't make the final cut.

"The single most difficult decision was [cutting] the Kyoshi Warriors," he said of a chapter in the story that involves Aang, Sokka, and Katara encountering a group of female warriors along their travels. Read More...

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'The Last Airbender' Premiere Q&A: Which Element Would You Control?

Posted 7/1/10 5:29 pm EST by in Video


If you follow me on Twitter, you already know I was at last night's red carpet premiere of "The Last Airbender," M. Night Shyamalan's live-action adaptation of the excellent Nickelodeon animated series.

In addition to the serious questions I posed to Shyamalan and the film's cast, I also managed to squeeze in a fun theme for the night by asking everyone which element they'd like to control in the real world, and what they'd do with it. Some of their answers are predictable, some are surprising, and some, well... you'll have to see it for yourself.

"The Last Airbender" hits theaters everywhere in the U.S. today.

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M. Night Shyamalan Was 'Skeptical' About 3-D For 'The Last Airbender'

Posted 7/1/10 3:01 pm EST by in News


M. Night Shyamalan holds a deep affection for "old school" film, and it's probably no coincidence that his favorite scene in "The Last Airbender" was inspired by "Enter the Dragon." That same fondness for classic movies, however, also contributed to his initial skepticism toward filming "The Last Airbender" in 3-D.

"I was very skeptical," the director told MTV News. "I felt like [3-D] was a gimmick. I didn't have a lot of respect for it." Read More...

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'The Last Airbender' Powers And Weapons: Behind The Film's Visual Effects

Posted 7/1/10 12:01 pm EST by in News


The Last AirbenderFROM MTV MOVIES: Last summer, MTV News took a trip inside M. Night Shyamalan's mad-scientist brain when we visited the Philadelphia set of "The Last Airbender." The hyperkinetic director was in the midst of bringing "Airbender" out from the animated small screen and into real life, and the results were big, big, big — sets twice the size of football fields, massive green screens, hundreds of extras in elaborate costumes and a production budget two and a half times the size of any of his other movies.

"I'm scared to death," he admitted back then.

Yet, at the same time, Shyamalan knew exactly what he was doing. Now the results of that focused anxiety have arrived in theaters. Set in an imaginary world in which various tribes can control the elements of the planet, the film follows the century-long war that the Fire nation has been waging against other nations until a young boy named Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the only person capable of controlling all four elements and bringing about peace.

As the tribes go at one another, the audience gets to sit back and take in all manner of badass weaponry and cool, CGI-assisted powers. Visual-effects supervisor Pablo Helman ("War of the Worlds") and set decorator Larry Dias ("Transformers") walked MTV News through the creation of these various features to give us the inside scoop about five cool weapons and powers.

Continue reading 'The Last Airbender': An Inside Look At Five Cool Powers And Weapons at Movies.MTV.com.

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'The Last Airbender' Clip: Zuko Vs. Katara!

Posted 7/1/10 10:29 am EST by in Video


"The Last Airbender" hits theaters today, but we have yet another clip from M. Night Shyamalan's live-action adaptation of the hit animated series for you to check out.

Yesterday, we showed you Aang (Noah Ringer) battling the Fire Nation, and now it's the fire-bending Zuko (Dev Patel) battling the young waterbender Katara (Nicola Peltz).

What do you think about the water- and fire-bending effects? Let us know in the comment section or on Twitter!

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Dev Patel Says 'The Last Airbender' Captures 'The Essence' Of The Animated Series

Posted 7/1/10 9:31 am EST by in News, Video


Don't ever let anyone tell you that adapting a beloved franchise for film is an easy task. Overly impassioned fans are always the first to cry foul when a detail is off, even slightly, adding a sense of pressure for the cast and crew of a movie project to "get it right."

It was certainly a sense of pressure that was felt on the set of M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender." Speaking with MTV News, actor Dev Patel said that he and his colleagues may not have replicated every single "Airbender" scene to the exact detail, but they captured something more important — the "essence" of the story.

"I think we really captured the essence, is the main thing," Patel told MTV. "Capturing the essence is important to me." Read More...

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'The Last Airbender' Clip: Aang's Courtyard Battle

Posted 6/30/10 7:29 pm EST by in Video


A new clip from "The Last Airbender" has hit the 'Net, giving us another look at actor Noah Ringer in action as Aang, the last surviving member of the air-bending nomads' tribe, and the last hope for a world at war.

Check out his moves in the clip below as he takes on an army of Fire Nation soldiers:

"The Last Airbender" hits theaters July 1.

Let us know what you think in the comment section or on Twitter!

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How M. Night Shyamalan's Favorite Scene In 'The Last Airbender' Was Inspired By 'Enter The Dragon'

Posted 6/30/10 1:31 pm EST by in Video


"The Last Airbender" makes its long-awaited debut in theaters tomorrow, and though you might already be familiar with the Nickelodeon animated series the film is based on, that wasn't the only source of inspiration for the live-action film.

In an interview with MTV News, director M. Night Shyamalan explained how Bruce Lee's 1973 classic "Enter The Dragon" inspired his favorite scene in "The Last Airbender."

"Sometimes you just see something and you go, 'Wow, this is just working out exactly perfectly,'" said Shyamalan. "The Master Pakku fight [was like that]." Read More...

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