'Last Airbender' Trilogy

It's been revealed that director M. Night Shyamalan is already working on the follow-up to next year's "The Last Airbender," a live-action adaptation of the animated fantasy series.

In a world divided into four nations (Earth, Air, Fire and Water), Aang is the only person able to master all four elements and, with the help of two friends, he tries to stop Zuko and the Fire Nation's plan to enslave all the other elemental tribes.

Producer Frank Marshall has now spoken about how they are moving quickly to put together a trilogy.

He said the films would have to be written and shot separately, rather than back to back like the "Lord of the Rings" series, but they needed to proceed quickly.

Marshall told Starlog: "We're shooting them one at a time, because they're being written one at a time. Night is now working on the script for the second movie, but he hasn't had time to write the second or third ones. He's looking at the arc of all three.

"One of the things we'll be doing is using the sets, ships and elements for each different nation in this film and incorporating them into movies two and three.

"We're not waiting. There just isn't enough time. Night will finish this movie, then the script and then we'll prepare for the next one. I think it'll probably happen over six years."

Clearly, they will have to get moving on the other films as soon as possible, before the actors become too old for their roles.

Shyamalan said: "'The Last Airbender' will be a very entertaining movie, a really fun summer film. But underneath that, it's serious and talks about genocide, balance, our connection to the planet and all those things that interest me if you've seen the other movies that I've made. It felt like an important film."

The first film, starring 12-year-old Noah Ringer as lead character Aang and "Slumdog Millionaire's" Dev Patel as evil Prince Zuko, will hit screens on July 2, 2010.
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Source: The Geek Files