According to Variety, "'Slumdog Millionaire' star Dev Patel has joined the cast of M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Last Airbender,' the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Films live-actioner based on a Nick TV series.
Patel will be featured alongside newcomer Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone and Jessica Jade Andres. Production begins in mid-March in Greenland.
In casting Patel and Ringer, a director accustomed to delivering plot twists to audiences got some surprises of his own. Ringer is a complete unknown who was tapped for the title role off an Internet audition. Patel, meanwhile, steps into a role that Jesse McCartney had all but locked up until the actor's second career as a musician got in the way."
According to Rope of Silicon, "The film is based on the Nick TV series and 12-year-old Ringer will play Aang, the film’s lead, who is the last of a race of people who can manipulate the elements of air. Patel will play Zuko, a member of the Fire Nation. Peltz plays the Water Tribe rep Katara, while Andres is the Earth Kingdom’s representative, Suki."
Jackson Rathbone (Jasper from "Twilight") will play Sokka, brother of Katara.
I happen to have watched all three seasons of the "Airbender" cartoon on Nick and loved every moment of it. A live-action film will be amazing if done right, and I still doubt Shyamalan since he isn't really an action director. He plans on making this a trilogy, one film for each season. But it all depends on how well the first one does.
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
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