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Brace Yourselves!! Shyamalan Is Now Casting THE LAST AIRBENDER!!


Merrick here...


Seems M. Night Shyamalan is well into casting THE LAST AIRBENDER, his adaptation of the recently concluded Nickelodeon animated series.

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.

...says THIS POST at EW, which goes on to reveal further casting from the film.

THE HAPPENING was breathtakingly idiotic in too many ways to count, and represented some of the most hilariously awkward and inadequate filmmaking seen in a long, long time. After LADY IN THE WATER and THE HAPPENING, I'm surprised M. Night's being allowed to remain attached to 1) a potential trilogy launcher, and 2) any project that has even a moderately high profile.

We'll see, and I want to be wrong here, but I smell stink.




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spoiler
by frankenfickle
Dec 10th, 2008
12:18:46 PM
M Night Who?
by Kentucky Colonel
Dec 10th, 2008
12:19:40 PM
I don't know anything about this property
by Charlie_Allnut
Dec 10th, 2008
12:20:29 PM
airbender get bent
by thinboyslim.
Dec 10th, 2008
12:24:52 PM
article with pics
by mr.brownstone
Dec 10th, 2008
12:26:57 PM
Uwe Boll cast as Shyamalan
by beetlegeuse
Dec 10th, 2008
12:26:58 PM
Is it just me or...
by Inglorious Bastard
Dec 10th, 2008
12:27:17 PM
After Signs I vowed to never see another M. Knight
by wuher da brewer
Dec 10th, 2008
12:27:40 PM
"HAPPENING was breathtakingly idiotic".
by mr.brownstone
Dec 10th, 2008
12:29:07 PM
maybe
by goingsomewhere8
Dec 10th, 2008
12:29:11 PM
M Night's Career = Over
by SomaShine
Dec 10th, 2008
12:29:34 PM
M. Night?
by Animus
Dec 10th, 2008
12:34:58 PM
A sensible move for M Night
by palimpsest
Dec 10th, 2008
12:38:16 PM
You'd think by now thought he'd of cast himself
by blindambition238
Dec 10th, 2008
12:41:32 PM
NO BUYS~!
by Super Rabbi
Dec 10th, 2008
12:41:47 PM
At least M.Night didn't create Avatar...
by DEX
Dec 10th, 2008
12:49:03 PM
I second Dex
by mukhtabi
Dec 10th, 2008
12:54:50 PM
Looks like a BLUE-RAY rental to me...
by Mike_D
Dec 10th, 2008
12:55:51 PM
Everyone's dead already! What a twist!
by Squashua
Dec 10th, 2008
01:03:05 PM
Its a shame they are doing this
by kendragon
Dec 10th, 2008
01:03:24 PM
A series of sucky movies and suddenly... A HIT! What a twist!
by YotzVonFrelnik
Dec 10th, 2008
01:06:50 PM
I admit to watching Nickelodeon for this cartoon
by Beowulf316
Dec 10th, 2008
01:10:55 PM
Does anyone really care about this guy anymore?
by DarthJedi
Dec 10th, 2008
01:18:13 PM
People seriously need to stop hating on M. Night
by TiVo1138
Dec 10th, 2008
01:18:38 PM
I still think the movie should be called Avatar.
by DisneyFanatic
Dec 10th, 2008
01:18:55 PM
I thought these characters were Asian?
by DeadPanWalking
Dec 10th, 2008
01:21:17 PM
I bet he'll do a good job with this. Just a hunch...
by FlickaPoo
Dec 10th, 2008
01:27:38 PM
DeadPanWalking
by DisneyFanatic
Dec 10th, 2008
01:30:36 PM
you all are just too depressing...
by DrBrianOblivion
Dec 10th, 2008
01:31:24 PM
Avatar the animated series...
by Alifemde
Dec 10th, 2008
01:34:40 PM
M Night hating should stop, but stop the dick sucking too
by awepittance
Dec 10th, 2008
01:42:04 PM
Re: Inglorious Bastard
by awepittance
Dec 10th, 2008
01:44:54 PM
TiVo1138
by TVguy4566
Dec 10th, 2008
01:47:01 PM
So is anyone in this movie Asian?
by drewlicious
Dec 10th, 2008
01:48:47 PM
re:drewlicious
by awepittance
Dec 10th, 2008
01:55:40 PM
That sure is a lot of white folk.
by Kurutteru Yatsu
Dec 10th, 2008
01:55:53 PM
prejudging
by Toonol
Dec 10th, 2008
01:58:50 PM
Every director has a stinker or two or three.
by knowthyself
Dec 10th, 2008
02:03:21 PM
RE: you all are just too depressing... by DrBrianOblivion
by Danger Vole
Dec 10th, 2008
02:03:31 PM
This is Going To Be Big!
by Aquatarkusman
Dec 10th, 2008
02:12:10 PM
This movie will work only if
by kafka07
Dec 10th, 2008
02:15:31 PM
Damn You Michael Bay
by MCMLXXVI
Dec 10th, 2008
02:16:04 PM
6th sense was ok, unbreakable i like...everything else
by FleshMachine
Dec 10th, 2008
02:30:39 PM
My balls....
by Gunslinger1919
Dec 10th, 2008
02:33:57 PM
WTF...
by Gunslinger1919
Dec 10th, 2008
02:37:53 PM
Negative comments and anger. I blame it on the worlds economy.
by spectrebeeyatch
Dec 10th, 2008
02:44:23 PM
Who is still financing this tosser...
by BiggusDickus
Dec 10th, 2008
02:44:57 PM
There's only one movie called AVATAR
by kwisatzhaderach
Dec 10th, 2008
02:46:32 PM
(clear throat)...
by HoboCode
Dec 10th, 2008
02:50:09 PM
yea i hear ya spectre
by DrBrianOblivion
Dec 10th, 2008
03:00:07 PM
RE: Gunslinger1919. If there's anything to be learned from "fuck
by thefrood
Dec 10th, 2008
03:01:02 PM
Hey where'd the rest of my headline go???
by thefrood
Dec 10th, 2008
03:02:25 PM
Why am I the only one...
by Royston Lodge
Dec 10th, 2008
03:03:18 PM
How Is It...
by Sean38
Dec 10th, 2008
03:10:18 PM
Dakota Fanning as Ang
by Damien Chowder
Dec 10th, 2008
03:11:30 PM
Actually.. knowing him he will cast himself as Ang.
by Damien Chowder
Dec 10th, 2008
03:13:13 PM
re: why hes getting worse
by DrBrianOblivion
Dec 10th, 2008
03:17:01 PM
M NIGHT "can't do a film without a twist" Shyamalan
by Damien Chowder
Dec 10th, 2008
03:29:43 PM
The Last Air Bisquit
by Fa Fa Fooey
Dec 10th, 2008
03:31:17 PM
It's like he never made 'The Sixth Sense'
by Heckles
Dec 10th, 2008
03:37:09 PM
It's over!
by mos6507
Dec 10th, 2008
03:41:57 PM
Awepittance
by frozen01
Dec 10th, 2008
03:45:45 PM
The whole "they're not casting Asians" thing.
by Amy Chasing
Dec 10th, 2008
03:50:57 PM
He didnt write it
by Omegaman
Dec 10th, 2008
03:51:26 PM
"Signs"
by TheHumanBeingAndFish
Dec 10th, 2008
03:56:52 PM
SIGNS is not the "single-most awful movie" ever.
by Mosquito March
Dec 10th, 2008
04:03:13 PM
Oops, that's "Netflix"
by Mosquito March
Dec 10th, 2008
04:04:09 PM
Where has "Night" plagiarized the bad idea
by kabong
Dec 10th, 2008
04:06:45 PM
Yes the world is fictional
by Mister C
Dec 10th, 2008
04:16:43 PM
Airbender
by veritasses
Dec 10th, 2008
04:29:50 PM
Also, if you wanna talk overrated directors...
by Mosquito March
Dec 10th, 2008
04:31:59 PM
FUCKING YOUR EYEBALLS IN 20XX?
by turketron
Dec 10th, 2008
04:44:28 PM
As someone who hates anime...
by andtheflesh
Dec 10th, 2008
04:55:02 PM
It's easy to say race doesn't matter when you're white
by terry1978
Dec 10th, 2008
04:55:27 PM
This series is good, I admit it
by freydis
Dec 10th, 2008
04:55:33 PM
On race...
by andtheflesh
Dec 10th, 2008
05:06:56 PM
Who cares when AVATAR will be...waitasec...PIME TARADOX
by TOGSolid
Dec 10th, 2008
05:25:59 PM
Delusional Euphoria
by JaPra
Dec 10th, 2008
05:41:58 PM
Looks like a laserdisc rental to me.
by The_joker
Dec 10th, 2008
05:44:02 PM
After seeing "The Happening"
by TooWhippy
Dec 10th, 2008
05:59:07 PM
If, like me, you hated "The Happening"...
by Organs
Dec 10th, 2008
06:02:26 PM
M. Night has his strengths and weaknesses...
by Billy Goat
Dec 10th, 2008
06:12:02 PM
What happened to this guy?
by JumpinJehosaphat
Dec 10th, 2008
06:22:35 PM
Oh No! My Cabbages!
by Amy Chasing
Dec 10th, 2008
06:22:37 PM
PS:
by JumpinJehosaphat
Dec 10th, 2008
06:23:38 PM
"His last 2 films haven't just been flops..."
by Toonol
Dec 10th, 2008
06:30:11 PM
on the race issue
by sokitome
Dec 10th, 2008
06:45:38 PM
Great Director. Terrible Writer
by RaRoMo
Dec 10th, 2008
06:50:56 PM
RaRomo
by sokitome
Dec 10th, 2008
06:53:56 PM
MR. C
by sokitome
Dec 10th, 2008
07:00:33 PM
M. Night Shyamalan will write in a shocking ending!!!
by Leafar the Lost
Dec 10th, 2008
07:09:01 PM
So if they made the Lord of the Rings with an all Asian cast...
by Drath
Dec 10th, 2008
07:09:34 PM
He said he will only do original stuffs.
by wadi77
Dec 10th, 2008
07:23:57 PM
The Happening.
by gotilk
Dec 10th, 2008
07:24:30 PM
The Happening did one thing right
by smackfu
Dec 10th, 2008
08:02:55 PM
HOWARD STERN was going to make this--
by Bob Cryptonight
Dec 10th, 2008
08:24:37 PM
I caught a little Airbender
by Teddy Artery
Dec 10th, 2008
08:42:16 PM
Hate on Knight all you want
by JackSack
Dec 10th, 2008
08:43:56 PM
THIS is the Avatar...
by stanton29
Dec 10th, 2008
08:45:43 PM
Whitewashed cast
by CZ
Dec 10th, 2008
08:59:50 PM
I think he'll do fine with this material...
by sonnyfern
Dec 10th, 2008
09:17:55 PM
I still don't get the Lady in the Water hate
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Dec 10th, 2008
09:20:48 PM
"Be scientific, douchebag!"
by Nasty In The Pasty
Dec 10th, 2008
09:37:55 PM
andtheflesh... you ought to check out
by MurderMostFowl
Dec 10th, 2008
09:53:25 PM
You're right - The Indian guy is casting white people because he
by Bass Bastardson
Dec 10th, 2008
10:26:22 PM
...is racist
by Bass Bastardson
Dec 10th, 2008
10:26:53 PM
my wife and i liked the happening. fuck ya'll.
by Warcraft
Dec 10th, 2008
10:30:47 PM
lol jackson rathbone too old to play sokka.
by Warcraft
Dec 10th, 2008
10:34:20 PM
Might be good cause they're not his characters
by BurgerKing
Dec 10th, 2008
11:04:58 PM
The Happening was supposed to be tounge-in-cheek?
by Paul T. Ryan
Dec 10th, 2008
11:12:08 PM
I loved everything til VILLAGE
by reflecto
Dec 10th, 2008
11:22:11 PM
Wow...just wow...
by Jiggah
Dec 11th, 2008
12:54:01 AM
CASTING ALREADY ANNOUNCED
by kgerm
Dec 11th, 2008
01:52:27 AM
Aang
by Toonol
Dec 11th, 2008
02:21:58 AM
Lady in the Water
by ChocolateJesus
Dec 11th, 2008
03:10:30 AM
thank GOD!! can this be the last nail in his coffin?
by BadMrWonka
Dec 11th, 2008
05:56:16 AM
M. Night
by I_am_not_the_droid_you_are_loo king_for
Dec 11th, 2008
06:39:09 AM
He should do a movie on his meltdown...
by mrfan
Dec 11th, 2008
08:06:04 AM
L in the Death Note movie
by David Cloverfield
Dec 11th, 2008
08:11:09 AM
Hatey Hate Hate Hate
by Aquatarkusman
Dec 11th, 2008
08:36:00 AM
The funny thing is...
by rbatty024
Dec 11th, 2008
09:01:14 AM
Its not that he's a bad film maker...
by wuher da brewer
Dec 11th, 2008
09:26:13 AM
Jackson Rathbone
by Anna Valerious
Dec 11th, 2008
09:59:04 AM
Happening wasn't THAT bad...
by Mathom
Dec 11th, 2008
10:37:16 AM
I'm one of those freaks who love Lady in the Water
by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYan ks
Dec 11th, 2008
12:06:47 PM
They Should Get That Dude From Dragonballz Movie
by DarfurOnTheRocks
Dec 11th, 2008
12:53:14 PM
Anime, race and blind people.
by Vincent Gecko
Dec 11th, 2008
12:56:02 PM
on a lighter note....
by nobunaga209
Dec 11th, 2008
12:58:28 PM
I don't think TBers are negative...
by maddox
Dec 11th, 2008
12:59:42 PM
oh and to Mathom...
by nobunaga209
Dec 11th, 2008
01:00:26 PM
for all the pissed off people
by sokitome
Dec 11th, 2008
01:07:37 PM
The Happening...
by Asaraiel
Dec 11th, 2008
01:47:13 PM
"The new James Bond flicks have been relatively good, and TBers
by Royston Lodge
Dec 11th, 2008
01:48:29 PM
Okay, folks....
by Lobanhaki
Dec 11th, 2008
01:55:10 PM
As for any racism in the casting?
by Lobanhaki
Dec 11th, 2008
01:59:13 PM
Racism
by Vincent Gecko
Dec 11th, 2008
02:23:29 PM
hey 'andtheflesh', your list was a great post.
by samsquanch
Dec 11th, 2008
02:28:43 PM
Lobanhaki
by sokitome
Dec 11th, 2008
02:31:55 PM
superior yellowface
by vacuous tart
Dec 11th, 2008
04:17:45 PM
Are there any Asian people out there upset by this casting?
by Amy Chasing
Dec 11th, 2008
05:02:22 PM
The Village was great.
by The Grug
Dec 11th, 2008
07:39:11 PM
The Lady in the Water
by Arghh
Dec 11th, 2008
08:04:29 PM
Whats with this "All Asian" characters stuff?
by Mace13
Dec 11th, 2008
09:30:40 PM
Mace13
by Amy Chasing
Dec 11th, 2008
09:41:08 PM
m. night shitbag!
by mojoman69
Dec 11th, 2008
11:22:21 PM
dont compare this joker with DePalma!
by mojoman69
Dec 11th, 2008
11:25:06 PM
Mace, if they're not Asian, what are they?
by CZ
Dec 12th, 2008
02:36:26 AM
Where do you draw the line?
by Amy Chasing
Dec 12th, 2008
04:08:18 AM
The Grug
by BadMrWonka
Dec 12th, 2008
04:53:15 AM
On the topic of anime characters enthnicity
by Mundungus
Jan 7th, 2009
03:36:08 AM
Yeah, that's right. Enthnicity...
by Mundungus
Jan 7th, 2009
03:38:20 AM

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