Ask M. Night Shyamalan!

[NightBender]

Hey everybody! I have some pretty exciting and grand news! Next week on March 11th I will be in New York City participating in a round-table discussion with the director of The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan! I was invited by our good friends over at Paramount Pictures to act on behalf of LastAirbenderFans.com and all of you. I will have the awesome opportunity to ask Shyamalan your questions at this special event.

Read through some of the questions already asked to make sure you’re not submitting a duplicate, and then post your question as a reply here. Then on March 11th, I will ask as many of your questions as possible (however many that may be.) The questions will then be answered on video, edited and made all fancy looking, and then posted here the website once complete.

Questions should obviously be related to The Last Airbender or the possible trilogy. If you aren’t a forum member and do not wish to register for whatever reason, send your questions to lastairbenderfans@gmail.com. Please put “Roundtable Question” in the subject. Thank you! And stick-tuned for Part 2!

[Glitch]

Would you like us to post in this thread or email?

[edit] My bad. It was in the thread topic.

SO! Here's mine, so far.

-Is Master Jeong Jeong in the movie?
-Do you have ideas for what the name of the second and third movies be?
-Can the average every-day firebender create fire, or is it an advanced move to create it, just like creating lightning? (It'd be nice to have this confirmed by M Night himself!)
-Do you have anyone in mind for Toph, and if so, who?

[NightBender]

In the thread is preferred.

[Jinju]

"What made you so determined to have Nicolas Peltz play Katara?"

"Has it been difficult to find a balance between the movie's functionality and the fans' expectations for it?"

[antisp13]

Does the production and development of the second and third movies rely on TLA's box office results? In other words, would sequels be made even if TLA makes no profit?

[RaptorJesus]

Is Azula cast? If not, what are you looking for in an actress to play Azula? Will Azula be hot ?

[Avatar Renara]

I have kinda alot of quetions I want answered. If he answeres at least half of them I'll be happy, especially the ones with Zuko in it


1. Will Bumi, Jeong Jeong, Jet and the Freedom Fighters be in any of the movies?

2. The earthbending man that you have on the poster with the 4 elements together, who is that? Bumi? Long Feng?

3. Will all firebenders be able to create their fire or just the really powerful ones?

4. Will you/Did you have a test screening of the movie in New York, more specifically in Manhatten? If you didn't yet when are you going to have one? I would love to review it and give you my thoughts.

5. Will Roku be played by an old man and will he have a big role in any of the movies? For the first movie, will you possibly add events from the episode Avatar Roku (AKA Winter Solstice Pt. 2)?

6. Will the Waterbending Scroll episode events (or something similar) be in this film? I really would like to see Zuko (and pirates) capturing Katara to get Aang

7. If it's a possibility, which I'm hoping it will be, will you be making a fourth movie of the series and put Sozin's Comet in it, instead of having it show right after The Day of Black Sun's events for the 3rd movie? Or will you have the fourth movie be based off of a sequel to all of the show's events?

8. Will our questions from the show's finale be answered in any of the movies, such as "What happened to Zuko's mom and where is she, What happened to Azula after her defeat, etc.

9. Also, I know I shouldn't be worried much about this answer but for the firebenders who can bend lightning in the show (Ozai, Azula, Iroh) be able to in the movie? Will you have Zuko possibly learn the ability in the final movie? That will be an awesome change of plot events.

10. Will you make the movie Toph the same sassy, stubborn type of girl from the show? Will she also be blind and have the ability to 'see' things around her with earthbending (I know, it's a totally stupid question )?

11. I know you have said that Sokka will be more serious but will he at least be sarcastic, hungry and striving to be a warrior all the time all the time, like in the show?

12. Will Zuko's and Zhao's tension and rivalry be shown? Will they have their (in)famous Agni Kai? ill there even BE Agni Kais?

[Uncle Iroh]

Just in case this should be asked if it isn't officially confirmed by the time you have this roundtable discussion.

Will the movie be at least 2 hours long?

[TwilightTweaker]

What was your thought process in the casting of this movie? Did you use the same process as prior movies, or is your approach different for every movie?

[Keola]

If the movie is a success, when will you start the audition process for part 2? and will it be nation wide?