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M Night Shyamalan Talks The Last Airbender
Published 6/10/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
M Night Shyamalan has been doing limited press to promote his new film The Happening, and has been talking about his big screen adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon Anime-influenced animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. When the hostile Fire Nation threatens to enslave the Water, Earth, and Air Nations, a reluctant and irresponsible twelve-year-old named Aang, who must forgo his selfish wandering to learn to master his latent powers and face his destiny as the Avatar, the Chosen One who can restore the world order. Night describes the film to SciFiWire: ...

Shyamalan Talks AIRBENDER...
Published 6/10/2008 by Merrick at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Merrick here... In a new interview with ComingSoon, M. Night Shyamalan speaks about what drew him to adapt the Nickelodeon animated series AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER as a live-action film, and the challenges of keeping it family-friendly. "It will be tough to keep it PG from PG-13," he said about doing a PG family film. "It will be tricky. I don't know how to make a PG movie so that's going to be much harder, because with R, everything was no problem." ..says THIS ARTICLE at ComingSoon. We've received quite a few e-mail asking about the status of this project; it's still slated for Summer 2010.

The Dailies: June 10, 2008
Published 6/10/2008 by Shawn Adler at MTV Movies Blog
- Jon Favreau thinks “Iron Man 2″ release date is unrealistic, not enough time to develop strong follow-up. (Myspace) - Jason Segel wants Paul Williams back to compose music for new Muppet movie. (IESB) - M. Night Shyamalan talks “Airbender.” (Sci Fi, Rope of Silicon, & Coming Soon) - Final red band trailer for “Wanted” pops up online. (Apple) - Bill Maher hears the voice of God in new trailer for “Religulous.” (Apple)