Shamshamalan is making Avatar 2.

[Something Amyss]

Probably not going to happen hopefully, but he must must be delusional. People were criticizing the movie not for being to childish but for poor editing, stiff acting and piss weak special effects. It excised the lighter elements anyway drab colours, lack of humour and characters who had non of the spark of the originals.

And the overall script. Good god, trying to pick apart individual issues with the writing is like trying to find the wettest part of the ocean.

This wasn't the twist I wanted, Shyamalan.
THIS WASN'T THE TWIST I WANTED!

Turns out the franchise was dead all along!

What are you guys talking about? The last one was an artistic masterpiece for the ages.

There's making bad movies, and then there's making movies that suck so transcendentally hard that they will surpass all but the very best movies in your memory. The Harry Potter movies were "good". The Avengers was "good". The Lord of the Rings movies were "Great". But The Room, for instance, was such colossal shit that the suck factor divides by zero and becomes so fractally awful that it will be remembered for the rest of time, immortalized in college film courses on the exact subject of what causes a movie to suck, fulfilling for film students the same purpose that the Tacoma Narrows bridge and the Chernobyl reactor station fulfill for engineering students.

ATLA was an awesome show, but I barely remember all but a handful of the episodes. But I remember when we watched that movie, and we were laughing our heads off nearly every time a character opened his or her mouth. We played a drinking game where the rule was drink every time it's painfully obvious that Shamshamshyamalamamama (the other rule was "attempt to append another syllable to his name) can't direct worth a fuck and that no one even bothered to watch 5 minutes of the show ("Ong").

I honestly don't think the Room or TLA were so sufficiently bad as ti earn their cred. Mostly, they're boring.

Dead silence is about the worst condemnation I can give a movie. And that's pretty much both movies' run times.

 

[Callate]

Ah, ha ha ha... no.

General rule of thumb: Check IMDB for this sort of thing. War of the Planet of the Apes is on there. Wonder Woman is on there. Captain Marvel is on there. Hell, Neuromancer has an entry, and I don't think there's any question in anyone's mind at this point that that one is permanently in development hell and never going to surface again.

Do you know what isn't? Not on Shyamalan's page, or even in "related stories" on the page of The Last Airbender? Airbender 2.

And a brief look around says that M. Night is presently working in the field of self-funded "found footage" horror movies and television right now (note that he directed one, count 'em, one episode of Whispering Pines.) With the diminishing returns of his last few pictures, the tanking of a much-loved franchise's chances to ever make a go at big-screen live action, and the absolute disaster that was After Earth, I don't think anything short of a small miracle- and a "come to Jesus" redemption of Shyamalan's much-observed egotism- is going to see him given access to a nine-figure budget again.

So... Chill. Hollywood is very, very stupid, and often lacking in taste, but they rarely throw good money after bad.

 

[Josh123914]

....Remember when the first movie was made? Bryke had thought they were done with Avatar, and their legacy was going to remain intact.
Then this travesty came along, and then a year or two later they announce Legend of Korra.

Now they've finished LoK, and again claim to move on to a new project. Nickelodeon now wants to make another Shyamalon movie. In my eyes this all but confirms a new Avatar series about 5 years from now.

And aside from that, I read a reddit post from some cameraman that worked on the show that the movie was plagued with production issues. Aang had a good actor, but the script kept getting changed. The girl who played Katara was actually some director's relative and got the part due to nepotism (which in turn screwed up the general ethnicity of the water tribes) and a couple other major problems.

So I say give him another shot. If the stars align and there's no company interfering this time then perhaps the movie may end up being quite good. Which I hope it is. They'll need a new cast for starters, I'm pretty sure Aang can't be doing childish pranks at age 21...

 

[Sonicron]

Mr Shambambalavarian, please stop talking to the press, making movies or doing anything else to impact the world of media in any way. Even if I were to concede that what you said in that interview was a sincere defence of your awful Avatar movie - which I do not - the blatant infantilization of 9-year-old children you apparently promote is deserving of nothing but ridicule, scorn and open contempt. Children need to be challenged as well as entertained, so vapid 'entertainment' like your prior Avatar movie already misses the mark by a country mile, and I guarantee you they are perfectly capable of telling good movies from shit ones.

 

[Zontar]

I wonder if Shamalan made a Korra movie would it be as bad as the show it was based on?

I think it's safe to say it would be worst. Yes that would be an accomplishment but it's one he would manage.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Look, if he wants to make a movie for 9 year olds let him make a movie for 9 year olds. It doesn't have to be good. It's for 9 year olds. I remember all the stupid shit I liked when I was 9. Most kids like stupid shit. It's harmless. Get over it. You still have your precious animated series. I didn't flip out when Michael Bay decided to make The Transformers despite it being one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. I just didn't like the movie and that was the end of it. Kids loved it and that's OK.

 

[sageoftruth]

Someone sit that poor director in front of a TV and have him watch the shows 9 and 10 year-olds are watching today. The rest of the TV industry already seems to understand that "meant for kids" doesn't have to mean condescendingly simple-minded.

 

[renegade7]

Probably not going to happen hopefully, but he must must be delusional. People were criticizing the movie not for being to childish but for poor editing, stiff acting and piss weak special effects. It excised the lighter elements anyway drab colours, lack of humour and characters who had non of the spark of the originals.

And the overall script. Good god, trying to pick apart individual issues with the writing is like trying to find the wettest part of the ocean.

This wasn't the twist I wanted, Shyamalan.
THIS WASN'T THE TWIST I WANTED!

Turns out the franchise was dead all along!

What are you guys talking about? The last one was an artistic masterpiece for the ages.

There's making bad movies, and then there's making movies that suck so transcendentally hard that they will surpass all but the very best movies in your memory. The Harry Potter movies were "good". The Avengers was "good". The Lord of the Rings movies were "Great". But The Room, for instance, was such colossal shit that the suck factor divides by zero and becomes so fractally awful that it will be remembered for the rest of time, immortalized in college film courses on the exact subject of what causes a movie to suck, fulfilling for film students the same purpose that the Tacoma Narrows bridge and the Chernobyl reactor station fulfill for engineering students.

ATLA was an awesome show, but I barely remember all but a handful of the episodes. But I remember when we watched that movie, and we were laughing our heads off nearly every time a character opened his or her mouth. We played a drinking game where the rule was drink every time it's painfully obvious that Shamshamshyamalamamama (the other rule was "attempt to append another syllable to his name) can't direct worth a fuck and that no one even bothered to watch 5 minutes of the show ("Ong").

I honestly don't think the Room or TLA were so sufficiently bad as ti earn their cred. Mostly, they're boring.

Dead silence is about the worst condemnation I can give a movie. And that's pretty much both movies' run times.

It's better to watch them with friends and alcohol.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

My mother, a person having never seen the cartoon and no interest in ever starting, but thoroughly enjoyed the movie, will be happy.

I'm happy for her.

For my own part though, I'm just going to put this in the same dark corner of my mind that holds Percy Jackson and Eragon never to see the light of day.

Well, I guess that's fair. Plus, like Doug said, no matter how many awful movies M makes, we'll still have the original show(and Korra), and they'll just show how terrible the movies are in comparison.

Also, got some extra room in that dark corner?
<.< I need to hide some things "no one should know" for a little while in a spot no one can or would look for them...

 

[Silence]

So I watched the Nostalgia Critic review and now I want to clean my brain with ... something.

This director should be put in prison. And not get the license to continue this shit.

 

[Rad Party God]

You could make it for that same audience, which is what I did -- for nine and 10-year-olds -- or you could do the Transformers version and have Megan Fox.

FUCK YOU SHYAMALAN, yes, Avatar starred a lot of under-aged characters, but they weren't boring as fuck, you sucked out all the fun of Avatar and replaced it with monotonous and boring characters. And even though the show is intended for a younger audience, is respects it's audience, wich at the same time it's appealing to adults, because it tackles believable issues.

So yeah, I hope it bombs as hard as the first movie, if not even harder.

FUCK YOU SHYAMALAN

 

[Imp_Emissary]

]No way... this has to be a joke. After how notoriously awful the first film was? There's no way anyone would let him make another one.

If this isn't a joke, though, I'm oddly excited for this. It's like if they were to announce a new Battlefield Earth, I need to see how shitty this one will be.

EDIT: Especially since this is suppose to be Book 2, which is Earth, and we all know how amazing earthbending was in the film:

I understand that curiosity. I share that same morbid fascination.
:C But please. Pay no money to see it. I don't mean steal it, but wait for it to be free or reviewed.

If you can't resist, I understand. <->

Why is it that movie adaptations are always being given to people with no understanding or liking of the source material? Uwe Boll with video game movies, Michael Bay with Transformers, and now Shayamalan with Avatar. If you going to make an adaptation, put it in the hands of people who LIKE the original.

This Yahtzee quote explains problems with many industries.

He's what I don't get. It's been 5 years since the last one. Did it make them enough money that they could just wait this long to start again?

*Looks it up*
Well shit. Maybe.
http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Last-Airbender-The#tab=summary

If I'm reading it right, cost $150,000,000 to make and with movie(Worldwide)&DVD(domestic) sales bringing in $367,675,532.
So they got $217,675,532 out of it.
Dang. Maybe they're running low now so they want to make another one. ;p

 

[Auron225]

But WHY!?

All I can hope for is that people will outright ignore the thing even exists, which is arguably worse than people going to see it out of curiosity sake and him making a quick buck anyway. Also hoping it serves as a reminder to people that the TV show exists and is worth watching... but word-of-mouth and/or the internet are necessary to convince people of that, cause there ain't a snowflakes chance in hell of this assured abomination convincing anyone to see "more of Avatar".

I wonder if anyone could get a movement going; on opening weekend of this monstrosity's release, everyone go out and buy DVD copies of the TV series.

 

[Yuuki]

[HEADING=2]EVERYONE PLEASE READ THE ACTUAL ARTICLE. NOTHING HAS BEEN CONFIRMED.[/HEADING]

It's just typical clickbait title filled mostly with Shitmalan defending his movie. Some stuff in the article doesn't even make sense.

edit: Reading it again this is 100% clickbait. Just stop, please stop.

 

[Pinkamena]

]No way... this has to be a joke. After how notoriously awful the first film was? There's no way anyone would let him make another one.

If this isn't a joke, though, I'm oddly excited for this. It's like if they were to announce a new Battlefield Earth, I need to see how shitty this one will be.

EDIT: Especially since this is suppose to be Book 2, which is Earth, and we all know how amazing earthbending was in the film:

The thing that hits me is how meh the earthbenders look when they're bending. Put some energy into it damn you.

 

[kitsunefather]

I love his justification though:

"It was meant for kids, so that's why it's so unmitigatedly awful. I could have made it good, or I could make it for kids; duh."

Except that the original series was for the same age group, and was able to tell a decent story at the same time. Maybe the problem is that he condensed 26 episodes of Character and Story development into 90 minutes. That couldn't be it though. It's definitely that everyone just wanted him to give it the Michael Bay treatment.

Personally, I think they need to let Guillermo Del Toro take a crack at it. Fuck, let Michael Bay take a crack before they give it back to shamashamashamallama.

 

[pilouuuu]

Even though I haven't had the patience to finish watching that stupid movie, its existance is enough to piss me off.
What happen to Shyomolalan? Did he lose his mind? Or he enjoys creating crappy movies?

BTW, I didn't get confused about the thread title because I call the other movie Giant Smurfs in Space. The real Avatar is the cartoon starring Aang.

And yes, the argument for making a movie crappy only because it's made for children is the same though George Lucas had when he made The Phantom Menace, and see how much hate that got. Kids are not idiots!

 

[HardkorSB]

I looked it up and this seems to be a rumor.
The news outlets that have actual inside info from Hollywood studios are silent about it.

In short, it's fake.

 

[jamail77]

Look, if he wants to make a movie for 9 year olds let him make a movie for 9 year olds. It doesn't have to be good. It's for 9 year olds. I remember all the stupid shit I liked when I was 9. Most kids like stupid shit. It's harmless. Get over it. You still have your precious animated series. I didn't flip out when Michael Bay decided to make The Transformers despite it being one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. I just didn't like the movie and that was the end of it. Kids loved it and that's OK.

Someone sit that poor director in front of a TV and have him watch the shows 9 and 10 year-olds are watching today. The rest of the TV industry already seems to understand that "meant for kids" doesn't have to mean condescendingly simple-minded.

These two posts are sitting right next to each other. They don't go together! Somebody split them apart!

*Also echoes the gazillion responses made in the posts above already about how obviously fake and rumorishy this is*

 

[sonicneedslovetoo]

Somewhere in Minnesota the Rifftrax guys find a script that has mysteriously written itself long before the movie has even been released. The conservation of energy has been utterly broken as it appears to have manifested out of thin air of its own volition. It speaks directly to ones mind:
"We've got movie signs!"