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Netflix's upcoming live-action TV show has the potential to make up for and be better than M. Night Shyamalan's 2010 movie,. Premiering on Nickelodeon in 2005, Avatar: The Last Airbender introduced viewers to Aang, Katara and Sokka, three young people living in a world beset by war.
Their world is populated by people who can 'bend' one of four different elements, becoming Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and Airbenders. While Katara is a Waterbender, Aang is the last Airbender and the latest in a long line of powerful benders called the Avatar who has the ability to master all four elements.
Much of the show follows Aang as he learns to master the elements and prepare to take on Fire Lord Ozai, the conqueror who seeks to rule the world. The show was created by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, combining elements from American-style cartoons and Japanese anime, with a great deal of influence from Inuit, East Asian and South Asian cultures.
Avatar: The Last Airbender ran for three seasons on Nickelodeon, concluding in 2008. Following its conclusion, Shyamalan's, and was criticized by fans of the show for 'racebending' the characters, a term coined specifically for the movie's practice of changing the races of its main characters.
The movie also received largely negative reviews from critics and resoundly flopped at the domestic box office with $131 million (on a budget of $150 million), though the movie earned a total of $319 million worldwide. Still, The Last Airbender is widely regarded as a stain on the legacy of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which spawned the that ran for four seasons on Nickelodeon from 2012-2014. As a result, fans of the original animated show may have been dismayed by news of series. However, with Konietzko and DiMartino returning as showrunners on the new project, there's hope to be had that Netflix's series will be a worthwhile addition to the Avatar universe. In fact, Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender TV show can make up for the failure of Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. Although Konietzko and DiMartino created the property on which was based, the duo were not very involved in bringing the movie to life.
Neither are listed as producers on the film, they're simply credited for creating the show that the film draws inspiration from. In the years since the movie came out, the pair have spoken about their feelings on it, with Konietzko saying in a 2014 interview with, 'I’d like to see it not exist.' In another 2014 interview, with the podcast, Konietzko elaborated by saying that he and DiMartino didn't want the movie to be done in the first, and if it were to be done, they wanted to be the ones to do it. However, Paramount Pictures recruited M. Night Shyamalan instead and Konietzko said he and DiMartino tried to offer help but they had a 'big falling out' with the movie team. Ultimately, Konietzko called The Last Airbender a 'wasted opportunity.'
All that's to say, had the resource of consulting the original creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender when adapting the show, but didn't use it. While it's not always necessary for film productions to consult the creators of a source material while adapting it for the big screen, it's not a bad idea either, especially when the property in question is as beloved as Avatar: The Last Airbender. In the end, The Last Airbender came off as a slap in the face of fans of the show, changing important aspects of the universe - including the main characters' races - to suit the studio and director's vision rather than honor the source material. And the end result, the movie itself, wasn't very good, as evidenced by the reviews. However, Konietzko and DiMartino are not only involved with the Netflix show, they're showrunners on the project, which gives them the same amount of creative control as they had on the original Nickelodeon show.
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As such, they'll be involved in every step of the adaptation process, bringing the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender to live-action in a way that's much more truthful to the universe than Shyamalan's film - and that includes the format of the new show as well as the way the characters are cast.
Suspense auteur M. Night Shyamalan takes a break from crafting original screenplays to tell this tale of a 12-year-old boy (Noah Ringer) who provides the last hope for restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos. In a world balanced on the four nations of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, people known as the Waterbenders, Earthbenders, Firebenders, and Airbenders have mastered their native elements. Though the masters can each manipulate their native elements, the only one with the power to manipulate all four elements is a young boy known as the Avatar. When the Avatar subsequently appears to die while still mastering his powers, the Fire nation launches a global war with the ultimate goal of global domination. One hundred years later, two teens discover that the Avatar and his flying bison have in fact been locked in suspended animation.
Upon being freed from his prison, the Avatar embarks on an arduous quest to restore harmony among the four war-ravaged nations. Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
Decent visuals do little to save this heavily butchered live-action rendition of the first season of Nickelodeon's 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'. Failing to capture the delightful humor and lovely character interactions of the show, M.
Night Shyamalan's first tackle at a fantasy epic is hilariously amateurish at best (If you thought he was bad trying to be Rod Serling, then watch him attempt to be George Lucas). Not only is the plot incomprehensible to anybody who hasn't watched the show, but this piece of cinematic trash is filled to the brim with wooden acting (Dev Patel, Shaun Toub, and Aasif Mandvi are the only actors that emerge with any credibility), awkwardly stilted exposition-filled dialogue, thin characterization, and ineptly choreographed action sequences. The plot will have newcomers confused and the strange alterations from it's wonderful source material will anger established fans. My advice: stick to the TV show and forget about this heap of uninspired tripe. ½ Even as someone who is not familiar with the anime of the same name, you can tell that this has probably little to do with it.
The set-up, world-building and idea behind this mythology is great and interesting. There are also a couple of genuinely fun action scenes, especially when the bender work with their elements. The main problem are the characters. Why do the main characters from the ice look Caucasian but everyone around them Inuit? Those two aren't much of actors anyway.
Then there is this somewhat flat but often bratty main character. All that makes it hard to care for everything that's going on. The film is still entertaining and offers some nice special effects, gorgeous landscapes and cities.
So the result is not as catastrophic as fans of the original may want to make you believe. It's not that great a movie on its own either, though. And the sequel the ending dares to hint at very strongly will probably never happen.