There’s a Nickelodeon animated series based on Eastern oriental lore created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It’s called Avatar: The Legend of Aang and is a fantasy revolving around Aang, a bald (shaved, actually) boy who can do wonders with the elements. He's played by young Noah Ringer. Aang’s head has a tattooed arrow that points down, similar to what you see in boxes that say “This side up.” The setting is a world where people called benders (no relation to Bender the robot in Futurama) can control the elements. In a battle for dominance, our bald airbender kid must go out of his way to save his world for the evil that plagues it coming from the Fire Nation.

Avatar: The Legend of Aang is now a major motion picture called The Last Airbender. The “Avatar” was dropped from the title due to conflict with James Cameron’s Avatar movie. Directed by no less than M. Night Shyamalan. Yes, you guessed it; he’s the guy behind sleeper hits like The Sixth Sense which was released in 1999. After more movies with the same dragging feeling such as Unbreakable and The Happening, you’d expect more of this from Shyamalan. But no, now we have what looks like a departure from slow creepiness to fast fantasy action. It’s a different Shyamalan working on The Last Airbender. The pervasive atmosphere of unease we’ve all come to expect from his movies is not here.

More mainstream and surely will capture a broader and younger audience, The Last Airbender is really a trilogy. The events of the first season will be used in the first film. Perhaps Shyamalan is taking a cue from all the other trilogies out there that have proven to be moneymakers. It’s not surprising that trilogies tend to make money. If there’s already a good fanbase, success is more or less ensured, especially if the story or characters are already familiar to a lot people already following a different rendition of the story.

Shyamalan was introduced to the cartoon series when his daughter asked that she play the water bender character, Katara (left), for Halloween. Curious, he watched the series and found good material for a feature film. In an interview, Shyamalan said the martial arts and spiritual elements of the series appealed to him. With Frank Marshall as producer, we can only expect that this film will be big. The characters’ growing base of young fans will be more than enough to ensure a blockbuster. And if they have parents and friends in tow, the ticket sales will surely grow.

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