M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender Full Theatrical Trailer

Posted by on February 11th, 2010   Filed under: Action, Fantasy, Trailers

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After the Super Bowl spot impressed so many people last week, the full theatrical trailer for The Last Airbender has arrived online to follow it up. It manages to flesh out the story a bit more while maintaining the epic feel. I have to admit, this movie wasn’t even really on my radar before, but now my interest level is definitely rising.

Could this be the comeback that M. Night Shyamalan needs? No one really seems to be talking about the fact that he’s writing and directing it, but it looks like he’s doing a pretty solid job at creating an action fantasy blockbuster that will appeal to both kids and adults. Of course, having Frank Marshall on board as a producer probably doesn’t hurt either. Check out the new trailer after the jump and see what you think; The Last Airbender hits theatres on July 2nd.



  • Henrik

    Doesn’t seem that interesting from this trailer, slow-mo dodging punches and all, but I am very excited.

  • Napalm

    This looks friggin’ awesome! But I’m interested in seeing how M.Night handles big action sequences.

  • Teo

    The Last Bender

  • The Man

    Wow they didn’t even show his name till the end in very tiny font to. This is a Kevin Smith type reversal of marketing.

  • Hmmmm not sure about this… looks juvenile.

  • neyney

    My kids and I have been looking forward to this one since the first time that Shyamalan said he was onboard to make a feature movie. We are huge fans of the animated series and other than some minor changes (we will miss fat Uncle Iroh) it looks fantastic. This “Avatar” is one we will definitely see.

  • swarez

    Well it looks very impressive that’s for sure. And that kid has something dark about him that I like.

  • Rick

    Iroh isn’t in this. that’s really a shame. he was one of the best and most loved characters. How can you portray zuko with out iroh

  • Chris

    This looks so bad ass!

  • I hope its good. Shyamalan needs it.

  • BigHungry

    Looks good
    The twist is, it is not a cartoon.

  • Jer2D2

    I can’t wait to see this!! I cant wait!!! That being said I wish James Cameron would have taken this project on, I think he would have done a far more amazing job making everything look real and alive. One thing I don’t like is the background music they put and also that first fire bender seen, they remind me of the live action movie of Dragon Ball-z. Which was a big flop. Oh and there is an uncle Iroh in the live action film, its just that he is not fat like in the animations series.

  • Mike

    i like that i know nothing about this.

  • Seems much better than I first thought, but still I have no real push to see it.

  • Darksiders

    Just wondering, how can M. Night put his name on the title claiming “M.Night’s The Last Airbender” if it comes from already existing anime? Unless he created the source material, which he didn’t.

  • Henrik

    He created the movie though. And maybe he has fucked with the source material in such a degree that people will automatically refer to this as Shyamalan’s Airbender.

    Other than that, it’s just a movie tradition. John Carpenter called his version of The Thing John Carpenter’s The Thing too.

  • I feel like this could make people like Shyamalan again, as long as he doesn’t rape the source material too hard.

    This will surely make an assload of money and have a “Book 2″ whether we like it or not.

  • Niklas

    this looks kind of like a boring CGI party to me but who knows? I have a feeling I will hate all the characters for some reason

  • pcch7

    I have to say, this has moved up to be my most anticipated movie of 2010.. Closely followed by Inception and Tron

  • Nate

    I’m excited for this for a number of reasons. One, the cartoon is awesome. Like, had it been on when I was a kid, I would never have paid attention to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At all. Second, I still love M. Night even if his last couple of films haven’t been his best. Nothing will ever make me forget about Unbreakable. I think it will also be good for the man to do something not in his usual genre and not something entirely of his own construction. I hope he nails it.

  • stevie_baby

    I really loved the cartoon and I did enjoy this trailer. Some thoughts

    1) Aang actually resembles Aang. I’ll have no more of this “he’s not asian” crap. He’s small pale kid with an arrow on his head, he’s fine.

    2) On that note. While all the protagonists are now lily white (including the dark eskimo Water Tribe), the evil Fire Nation is still ethnic. Hell yeah. Probably the most black/white cast choice since they redubbed the original Star Wars rebels into Americans, forever now associating British accents as villains.

    3) The action sequences look great! The bending arts look pretty realistic and the battleship thing at the end looked great.

    4) They changed the name from Avatar: TLA to simply “The Last Airbender” for obvious reasons. An unfortunate side effect is that the show was renamed “Avatar: The Legend of Aang” for the UK market because ‘bender’ is a slang term for homosexual. Now they’re sort of stuck with the movie title. Heh.

  • The Last Airboner (the Ron Jermey version)