According to Reading Eagle, "The movie people are alive and well and plan to begin filming M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Last Airbender' in the Reading area beginning Thursday, weather permitting.
Most of the work for the Paramount picture this week will take place at the Pagoda on Mount Penn, following the company's return Monday after 15 days in Greenland.
Production designers and special-effects crews have been working for several weeks to prepare the local site for the film, which is set in a series of mythical nations - Air, Water, Earth and Fire - and is based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series of the same name."
According to Sermitsiaq, "A crew of 136 actors, producers and technicians touched down in Ilulissat today to begin filming for ‘Avatar, the Last Airbender’, a live action version of a popular children’s cartoon about about 12-year-old boy capable of saving the world.
Filming in the north-west Greenland village will take place from 23 March to 3 April, and the scenes will make up a total of six minutes in the final production, estimated to have a budget of $250 million.
The scenes are not set specifically in Greenland, but in the Arctic. Other scenes have been filmed in Vietnam."
More according to the Reading Eagle, "A director best known for surprise-twist endings and terrifying audiences with ghosts and aliens ('The Sixth Sense,' 'Unbreakable,' 'Signs'), Shyamalan, who began filming of ;The Last Airbender; on Thursday against this unsettled backdrop, appeared to be in his element — this despite the fact that his new picture, an epic tale set in a mythic world, has been the subject of a popular animated series on the Nickelodeon TV network known for catering primarily to children.
The movie’s screenplay — written by Shyamalan but based on the series — focuses on Aang (Noah Ringer), the title character, an Air nomad, who emerges from frozen hibernation in an iceberg to discover that his village has been annihilated.
The Fire nation is waging war on the other three: Air, Earth and Water.
Aang quickly discovers that he is the lone Avatar, possessing the power to manipulate all four elements and perhaps restore order to the world.
Although the TV series is no longer creating new episodes, reruns are still broadcast. And Rodriguez [the film's producer] says that just before the film opens in July 2010, Nickelodeon will repeat the entire series as a lead-in to the movie.
Shyamalan was busy Thursday setting up a shot with Oscar-winning cinematographer Andrew Lesnie ('The Lord of the Rings' trilogy) and a costumed stuntman.
A large crane for specific camera shots hovered in the background, while set decorators and painters put the finishing touches on the scorched village, covered in debris, artificial vegetation and simulated human bones.
Ironically, the Pagoda itself may not be seen in its current state in the film. It will be digitally transformed to appear as a ruined ancient temple. Moreover, all modern background objects will be digitally erased."
A lot of filming is getting done and Shyamalan is trying to make the movie look as much as possible as the cartoon. This makes me excited since I am a big fan of the show (my cousin and uncle got me into it) and I really hope it does well so they make the entire trilogy.
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
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