M. Night Shymalan’s forthcoming action-adventure-fantasy movie “The Last Airbender” has released a new trailer. This new trailer will be shown during the Superbowl although it is already available over the web. It will show a considerable amount of footage about the movie. This movie is live-action adaptation of an animated series “AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER”. The release of the trailer was preceded by the release of two character posters. One of the posters featured taekwondo-trained actor Noah Ringer, who will play the title role of Aang. The second poster showed Dev Patel, who is more known for his role in “Slumdog Millionaire”, will play the role of Prince Zuko, Aang’s nemesis. The film was based on a popular Nickelodeon animated series, created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Asian mythology and philosophy has been a big inspiration of the series as well as the movie. It is about Aang, the descendant of long line of avatars. He has the task of bringing peace into world by stopping Prince Zuko from enslaving all the other nations, the Water Nation, The Earth Nation and the Wind Nation. Aang is a member of the Air Nation while Prince Zuko is a member of the Fire Nation.
There are some issues regarding the inaccuracy of the race of the characters, something that may not hold well with the fans of the series.
The movie itself is a thrill to watch. Other members of the cast are Jackson Rathborne (as Sokka), Nicola Peltz (as Katara), Shaun Toub (as Uncle Iroh), Seychelle Gabriel (as Princess Yue) and Aasgi Mandvi (Commander Zhao)
The movie is scheduled to be released on July 2, 2010
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Sources: kungfucinema.com, imdb.com and wikipedia.org
Wow ! They should have cast at least one Asian actor/actress, that way I would have been a little bit happier