From ANN:
"M. Night Shyamalan has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to write, direct, and produce a trilogy of live-action films based on Nikelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender. The project is unrelated to James Cameron's upcoming film Avatar, which was also announced yesterday."
Just watched Lady in the Water last night, too. Hm, although his movies involve the supernatural, I can't picture him doing this one really...
M. Night Shyamalan + Avatar = live-action movie?!
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M. Night Shyamalan + Avatar = live-action movie?!
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Tenshi no Ai - Posts: 4789
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...Aren't horror flicks (or at least pseudo-thrillers) his forte, though? I haven't even watched it, but from the small things I have seen, the show Avatar never struck me as anything he would be doing. But, I guess we'll just have to see. XD
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I can't see it working as a live action movie in itself, but we can't really say what ISN'T his forte because all we've seen from him is one thing. For all we know he could be good at this stuff.
I have mixed feelings, but you never know. Just have fun locating some bald kid that isn't a celebrity or that is....
I have mixed feelings, but you never know. Just have fun locating some bald kid that isn't a celebrity or that is....
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After all of the ego inflation he gave himself in Lady in the Water I'm surprised he can fit his head back into the studio.
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Cap'n Nick wrote:After all of the ego inflation he gave himself in Lady in the Water I'm surprised he can fit his head back into the studio.
Heh, now that I think about it, it's amusing a director/writer playing the role of [spoiler] "the chosen one".... [/spoiler]
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Tenshi no Ai - Posts: 4789
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Radical Dreamer wrote:...Aren't horror flicks (or at least pseudo-thrillers) his forte, though? I haven't even watched it, but from the small things I have seen, the show Avatar never struck me as anything he would be doing. But, I guess we'll just have to see. XD
His work as a writer.
Lady in the Water
The Village
Signs
Unbreakable
Stuart Little
The Sixth Sense
His work as a director.
Lady in the Water
The Village
Signs
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
His work as an actor
Lady in the Water
The Village
Signs
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
There you go. For him to work on Avatar, he will have to be the writer, director and an actor in the movie.
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
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"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
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Tom Dincht wrote:He'd play Aapa...
I was thinking he'd play the cabbage merchant or foamie.
I was initially appalled by the idea of an M. Night Shyamalan Avatar movie, but after thinking this over, I've decided I'm going to give it a chance. It may not even happen, who knows. But the special effects should be pretty good, and M. Night Shyamalan is good at taking interesting takes at spiritual/supernatural themes. And since the avatar world is already developed, he can't really screw that up too much.
Personally though, I hope he doesn't recount the story of the "gAang". I hope he follows the story of a different Avatar, or the regeneration of the air nation (if that happens).
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Funny thing, when I was watching XMen 3, I saw this kid and thought he'd make the perfect live action Aang, if they ever did a movie...
... and then the Shyamalan news came along.
Anyway, this is the only in-movie pic I could find of Cameron Bright...
But here he is WITH hair.
At least, I thought he'd make a good Aang, but by the time the movie were to start filming, he'd be too old anyway... >.>
... and then the Shyamalan news came along.
Anyway, this is the only in-movie pic I could find of Cameron Bright...
But here he is WITH hair.
At least, I thought he'd make a good Aang, but by the time the movie were to start filming, he'd be too old anyway... >.>
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*emphasis added*Wingzero22 wrote:His work as a writer.
Lady in the Water
The Village
Signs
Unbreakable
Stuart Little
The Sixth Sense
That one credit card commercial
His work as a director.
Lady in the Water
The Village
Signs
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
That one credit card commercial
His work as an actor
Lady in the Water
The Village
Signs
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
That one credit card commercial
There you go. For him to work on Avatar, he will have to be the writer, director and an actor in the movie.
Wingzero22
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dyzzispell wrote:Funny thing, when I was watching XMen 3, I saw this kid and thought he'd make the perfect live action Aang, if they ever did a movie...
... and then the Shyamalan news came along.
Anyway, this is the only in-movie pic I could find of Cameron Bright...
But here he is WITH hair.
At least, I thought he'd make a good Aang, but by the time the movie were to start filming, he'd be too old anyway... >.>
Yes he would be interesting person to play him but he probably get old to quick.
I curious on how Avatar will play out in live action.
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1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2) The same was in the beginning with God.
3) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4) In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5) And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Psalm 115: 105-106 OKJ
105) Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
106) I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgements.
Psalm 91:1-2
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2) I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
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Tenshi no Ai wrote:From ANN:
"M. Night Shyamalan has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to write, direct, and produce a trilogy of live-action films based on Nikelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender. The project is unrelated to James Cameron's upcoming film Avatar, which was also announced yesterday."
Just watched Lady in the Water last night, too. Hm, although his movies involve the supernatural, I can't picture him doing this one really...
BUMP!
Just because none of my friends believe me and I'm having trouble believing you (no offense).
Well not you, ANN.
I also can't find it on IMDb.
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Here are two sources that confirm what ANN says:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117956950.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
http://www.tv.com/avatar-the-last-airbender/show/28841/story/8025.html
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117956950.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
http://www.tv.com/avatar-the-last-airbender/show/28841/story/8025.html
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I really liked some of M. Night Shyamalan's films but I'm not sure about him doing Avatar....
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