Movies: Avatar vs Avatar

[ghosthunter]

This is going to be confusing. There will be two movies with Avatar titles.

Avatar - The Last Airbender (by M. Night Shyamalan)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/


Avatar (by James Cameron)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/

[nurse_corrupted]

As long as there will be the "Last Airbender" in it, I think it will be clear.

I watched the whole cartoon series and I'm pretty excited on this one, although from the trailer, parang iba ang origins ni avatar.

[overdrayv]

Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies will release M. Night Shyamalan's live-action bigscreen adaptation of the popular animated TV series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" on July 2, 2010.

Studio has dropped "Avatar" from the title of the action-adventure so as to avoid confusion with James Cameron's 3-D epic "Avatar," which 20th Century Fox opens Dec. 18, 2009.

Variety.com

thelastairbendermovie.com

[ghosthunter]

From the looks of the trailers, both will be great movies.

[roninblade]

good thing they're showing on different dates then. december 2009 for avatar and july 2010 for the last air bender.

edit: didn't see the dates were already posted by overdrayv.

[OldSchoolHack]

Usually when a TV series or a novel is brought to the screen a lot of the story, plots and character development is lost.

Hopefully The Last Airbender will not be one of these. But my guess is this movie will be a computer generated effects festival rather than the plot driven-character built animated series.

The other Avatar looks interesting too.

[Negus]

The Last Airbender is rumored to be a trilogy and it's gonna take 6 years to make.

[niky]

Usually when a TV series or a novel is brought to the screen a lot of the story, plots and character development is lost.

Hopefully The Last Airbender will not be one of these. But my guess is this movie will be a computer generated effects festival rather than the plot driven-character built animated series.

The other Avatar looks interesting too.

Actually, M.Night Shyamalan, despite his other faults, tends to make his movies more character driven than all-out effects fests... so as long as the scriptwriter is the same as for the TV series, or at least consults the show's creators in-depth, I have big hopes for this movie.

But I'm looking forward to James Cameron's Avatar a little more... it should be epic.

I will definitely watch both. If only to get the taste of 2009's summer of sh** out of my mouth...