Doom

[ebonlock]

No, seriously, DOOM:

The Last Airbender Will Be M. Night Shyamalan's Star Wars

M. Night Shyamalan has finished his script for The Last Airbender, the live action movie based on Nickelodeon's epic cartoon, Avatar — and he's told Paramount and Nickelodeon that he thought they had a new Star Wars on their hands. Shyamalan screened a rough teaser trailer at the New York Licensing Expo Night, and we were there. Details after the jump.

Oh well, I didn't have incredibly high hopes for this project anyway. Now I get the feeling we're talking about epic levels of fail.

Comments

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

Wait, am I reading this right? Some dude's taking an animated cartoon and turning it into a live-action (with CGI) feature film?

Now, I don't know who Shyamalan is (and I suspect that is a blessing), but right away I have bad feelings about this. I cannot think of a single cartoon-turned-live-action film that I've enjoyed. Shields up!

(Granted, I've seen precious few movies in my day, but still!)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

You've never seen "Sixth Sense", "Unbreakable", "Signs", "The Village" or any of his other flicks? Well I can't say you're missing much. Basically what he does is tells a basically interesting story and then about 9/10's of the way through throws in some big surprising twist that makes everyone gasp aloud. Thing is that works great once or twice, but he does it over and over and over again. That's all he's known for and now he's getting his hands on Avatar...*sigh*

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

Oh dear goodness, that sounds wretched. Probably these monumental twists occur at the same point in time in each of his movies, too. Ugh.

Can we do a write-in campaign to get a director we like on the project?