‘The Last Airbender’ Trailer Surprises with Simplicity

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 23, 2009

It is difficult to say what exactly everyone was expecting from director M. Night Shyamalan and his latest work, The Last Airbender. Although, we can be almost certain that they didn’t expect the level of cool that we see in the first teaser trailer.

The film is a live-action adaptation of an immensely successful Nickelodeon animated series, set in a world where human civilization is split into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire. And as the Fire nation wages a ruthless war, one young hero named Aang (Noah Ringer), the ‘Last Airbender’ — the one Avatar who is said to be able to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together, must reluctantly join the fight with the help of a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka.

Of course, Aang must steer clear of the Fire nation’s evil, exiled prince Zuko (Dev Patel), who has set out to find and capture the Last Airbender in order to earn a way back into his father’s good graces. And as you can see from the teaser below, he’s bringing all the firepower he can find. Although I would urge him to watch out, as that little Airbender kid is kind of a badass.

The Last Airbender hits theaters on July 2, 2010.

What do you think of the first teaser for The Last Airbender?

Related Reading:

Comment Policy: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Film School Rejects reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. We also reserve the right to modify any curse words in your comments and make you look like an idiot. Thank You!

Moses Roberts

Why did M. Night smear his name all over the movie like he created it? Unless he made some big ass changes.

Is this Avatar: The Last Airbender or M. Night Shyamalan's Last Airbender?

Felicity

Yea, I kind of agree with you on that one. It is actually Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko's technically, since they created the original show and THEIR idea was the original idea that made it so popular on Nickelodeon. M. Night could have said to put "Based on Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender created by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko" in the beginning of the teaser or something instead of making it look like, to all the people who never followed Avatar, that it was all his idea.

nicky_cavella

it clearly says m.night shyamalan film....

Avatarfanatic

oh my, the comment spoke of firepower, i thought we would see some blasts from the prince himself.

Cole_Abaius

It's been a long time since someone was gutsy enough to just plainly display how beautiful and bad ass-looking martial arts can be.

Rubix Qoob

Awesome trailer. Minimalist but very effective. I can easily see it gaining the attention of those unfamiliar with the excellent series. Can't wait for an expanded trailer and then the movie. I feel like I'm the only one looking forward to Revenge of The Fallen.

Reebee7

Another M. Night Shylaman movie that has enormous potential, but will likely disappoint.

Quenfis

I watched the animated series with my son. I know we will definitely see this movie. Great teaser in my opinion.

Jesse

M.Nights name is really big becasue he is one of the selling points. He's a big time, and well known director and Frank Marshell and company want to sell that. Just like Don Murphy had M. Bays name bigger than the title of transformers. There both selling points, having there name big up there isn't supposed to mean they created the whole concept.
Even though you could say they did create the new movie universes as both "The Last airbender" and "Transformers" are different than the shows they're based upon. It sounds more like you guys are just making a big deal out of Nights name being so big out of the big fact that its popular to dislike his work now. Which is just idiotic. I don't really care if this is called M.Nights:The Last Airbender. This is his movie, and he did not only direct but wrote the screenplay as well. So, technically this is his playground now.

Jesse

Almost forgot, this looks great. I'm very much looking forward to it.

‘The Last Airbender’ Trailer Surprises with Simplicity

Related Topics:

Related Reading: