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The Last Airbender
Written and Directed by:
M. Night Shyamalan

Story by:
Michael Dante DiMartino
Bryan Konietzko


Produced by:
M. Night Shyamalan
Frank Marshall
Sam Mercer


Music by:
James Newton Howard

Cinematography by:
Andrew Lesnie

Edited by:
Conrad Buff

Running Time:
103 minutes

Original Release Date:
July 1, 2010

The Last Airbender (2010)
Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara , a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka, to restore balance to their war-torn world. Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film The Last Airbender was the opening chapter in Aang’s struggle to survive.

Cast
Noah Ringer as Aang
Nicola Peltz as Katara
Jackson Rathbone as Sokka
Dev Patel as Zuko
Shaun Toub as Uncle Iroh
Aasif Mandvi as Commander Zhao
Seychelle Gabriel as Azula
Cliff Curtis as Fire Lord Ozai
Summer Bishil as Azula
Francis Guinan as Master Pakku
John Noble as The Dragon Spirit
Damon Gupton as Monk Gyatso
Katharine Houghton as Grandma
Jackson Zachariah Vaughn as Airbending Student
Sequels
Despite being reasonably successful at the worldwide box-office, The Last Airbender was a critical failure. General consensus from critics was negative, with less than 10% of critics writing a positive review, and movie-goers considering the film average with a C rating. Though writer/director M. Night Shyamalan had already written the first draft of the screenplay for the first of three sequels, the overall response to the first film shelved the production on subsequent films.