Back in 2006, James Cameron and M. Night were in a little dispute over the rights to the title to each of their movies. Being mature about the situation, M. Night chose to simply call his film "The Last Airbender", while Cameron gets to keep the original name for his upcoming film, "Avatar". M. Night's "Avatar" is in fact based on the popular anime-inspired Nickelodeon cartoon. Shyamalan comments that this is his chance to do a live-action version of a Hayao Miyazaki film. While Miyazaki has nothing to do with Avatar: The Last Airbender, aside from influencing the look and feel of the atmosphere, it gives you and idea of his intentions for the adaptation. He is promising to combine the epic feel of the "Lord of the Rings" films with the mysticism and intrigue of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". He also plans to shoot three films for the story back-to-back ala Peter Jackson with LOTR. Paramount Pictures will be producing the film, which is set to be released July 2nd, 2010. I'm looking forward to it. I have yet to see an M. Night Shyamalan film that I didn't like. Yes, that includes "The Village" and "Lady in the Water". And if you liked the Transformers movie, you have no room to talk.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
M. Night Shyamalan's Avatar: The Last Airbender
Back in 2006, James Cameron and M. Night were in a little dispute over the rights to the title to each of their movies. Being mature about the situation, M. Night chose to simply call his film "The Last Airbender", while Cameron gets to keep the original name for his upcoming film, "Avatar". M. Night's "Avatar" is in fact based on the popular anime-inspired Nickelodeon cartoon. Shyamalan comments that this is his chance to do a live-action version of a Hayao Miyazaki film. While Miyazaki has nothing to do with Avatar: The Last Airbender, aside from influencing the look and feel of the atmosphere, it gives you and idea of his intentions for the adaptation. He is promising to combine the epic feel of the "Lord of the Rings" films with the mysticism and intrigue of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". He also plans to shoot three films for the story back-to-back ala Peter Jackson with LOTR. Paramount Pictures will be producing the film, which is set to be released July 2nd, 2010. I'm looking forward to it. I have yet to see an M. Night Shyamalan film that I didn't like. Yes, that includes "The Village" and "Lady in the Water". And if you liked the Transformers movie, you have no room to talk.
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This is going to be VERY interesting to see how this turns out. I'm not a huge Avatar fan, but I respect the artwork. I think the entire concept and story of the show is incredibly cool as I've always been a fan of elemental-based worlds. For him to do a 3 part series is a first, and I really hope he can pull it off. Honestly, he has always made the impression that he more of a small time director. Nothing he has done has really been anything close to "epic", so for him to describe this as such is quite exciting, to say the least. I'll be watching this one very closely...
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