oh Polter-Cow.... have you seen this? Avatar art
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Laga - Nov 29, 2007 10:15:32 am PST #2462 of 10000
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Polter-Cow - Nov 29, 2007 10:48:14 am PST #2463 of 10000
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Heh. Laga, that Avatar has no connection to Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not that it doesn't look cool.
Laga - Nov 29, 2007 10:59:14 am PST #2464 of 10000
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This is me getting all red in the face and going to hide under my desk.
Polter-Cow - Nov 29, 2007 11:04:02 am PST #2465 of 10000
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Hee. No, it's a really big problem, actually. M. Night Shyamalan is making the Avatar: The Last Airbender movies, and the Avatar people want him to change the title, claiming they have first dibs. I think they're due to come out in the same year, even. It's going to be confusing all up in here because it seems stupid for M. Night to have to change the title of a movie based on a television show with that title. By all rights, he should get to sue them.
Laga - Nov 29, 2007 11:07:12 am PST #2466 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Whew I feel better. I could have sworn there was an Avatar: The Last Airbender movie in production... and there is! I can see why there's a fight going on over the titles if even movie theatre managers are confused but I'm with you: Cameron should have to pick a new title.
Polter-Cow - Nov 29, 2007 11:12:32 am PST #2467 of 10000
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I mean, they had two movies named Zodiac (and both about the Zodiac killer!) released one year after the other. Of course, one was clearly lower profile.
M. Night is actually doing a trilogy, presumably turning each season into a movie, as if that's possible at all. And it's live-action. While I obviously have reservations on principle, as anyone would, I'm a little heartened by the fact that he appears to be a complete fanboy, just like us. The first outline he turned in to Mike and Bryan was, like, waaaaay too long because he wanted to fit in all of their ideas. So, if anything, I know he respects the source material greatly and wants to do right by it. And Mike and Bryan seem to be involved. Cautiously optimistic for now, I suppose.
Glamcookie - Nov 29, 2007 11:13:26 am PST #2468 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
M. Night Shyamalan is making the Avatar: The Last Airbender movies
Oh God. "With Haley Joel Osment as Saka!"
Polter-Cow - Nov 29, 2007 11:21:56 am PST #2469 of 10000
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Actually, GC, I think he'll be casting unknowns. Open auditions and all that. He talked about it in the featurette on the DVD, how he thought about the fact that RIGHT NOW, there are some kids out there who are going to become Aang and Sokka and Katara.
Gris - Nov 29, 2007 2:01:04 pm PST #2470 of 10000
Hey. New board.
I am scared by the idea of live action Avatar: The Last Airbender, not even because I don't trust Shymalan but just... I can't see it working live-action. The animation is such a huge part of it. Some of my favorite moments are moments that are straight up cartoon, and just wouldn't work with real people.
Glamcookie - Nov 29, 2007 2:05:01 pm PST #2471 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I am Gris. And I really don't trust Shyamalan.