Of course M. Night Shamalongadingdong would cast a bunch of Haji's and Crackers to play as characters based on Chinese folklore... I have to hand it to you Hollywood... You sure know how to fuck with my childhood and culture.
It's MY opinion, but the movie was an absolute let down for me... Especially the casting.
I saw it tonight....and Didn't care for Iroh. Everyone else seemed pretty well casted, but Iroh was not jolly, fat or wise enough. I miss his deep scratchy voice and huge gray chops!
@slavaplaybball I saw the midnight premiere. Surprisingly, Iroh was one of the only two characters that I had no disappointment in. The other character that I had no disappointments in was Zuko. Dev Patel was AMAZING!
@ThetrueBallgurl97 Yeah, Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors were both cut out of the final version of the film, even though there were actresses cast for them and they had even filmed scenes with them. There will probably be deleted scenes on the DVD or something.
@waterbendergareth I saw a scene with them from either a trailer or the movie-to-book thing and they really toned down the make-up. Instead of the full Kabuki-style make-up they just have a red line under each eye and some lipstick. Suki's headdress is also understated and qualifies more as a headband.
You are being WAY too optomistic about this. These people look nothing like the characters the play, and you say "OH, THEY'RE GONNA ROCK!!!!!!111111 WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!!!!11111"
Dudes i have a hunch that will be a bad movie, i hope will wrong but M.night shamawhatever i'ts a bad director and i see somenthing..............this guy write the script, not Brain K or Michael Dimartino .....uffff will see..........
this cast sucks elephant dick...seriously the have got to be kidding. The slumdog millionaire kid is just ridiculous for Zuko...probably could have gotten away with using Dante Basco his VA...even tho he's like 30. Iroh is terrible, Ozai should be jet li or donnie yen or some one who at least knows kung fu...I don't give a flying fuck who plays Zhao but these choices are AWFUL.
@ILMARINBAND Absolutely! They couldnt make a Last Airbender movie without Momo. He's been talked about a lot the movie simply because he had no significant purpose in the story, or any kind of smbolic meaning in the world. M Night had asked his daughters how they would feel about Momo not being in the movie and they got so upset with him for even suggesting the absence of Momo that he promised them very early on in the wrighting process that Momo would be in the film.
@waterbendergareth thanks for letting me know, i find he is one of the comic relief characters, and i would be disappointed if he wasnt included in the movie as he does have some important parts in the plot e.g with the fire sages in roku's temple
CLIFF CURTIS AS OZAI IS THE BEST CHOICE THEY COULD HAVE EVER MADE, Cliff Curtus is going to make the movie, onistly i can't see anyone playing fire lord ozai BUT HIM!! dev as zuko okay nice choice better than jessie mcartney, more we see the more zuko like he is. noah=aang good nicola=katara okay jackson= sokka i have faith in him guy from ironman=iroh idk i think he can do it girl playing suki dont care much, she seems okay Aasif= zhao looks like him even without the facail hair.
bcyds the fact dt none of the actors lok lyk their cartoon counterparts i dnt mind the cast as long as they play the caractas well............... o nd um dnt thnk the fire nation is entirely middle eastern bcos cliff curtis aka firelord ozai is maori (native new zealand) which s nt middle eastern or asian nd obviously nt caucasian
Thank you for actually being optimistic about the cast. I think they'll all do great. But most everyone else thinks it's gonna suck cuz the cast doesn't look exactly like the cartoon. I'm stoked!
I really think the casting for this movie is great despite the cries of racism flying around. The actors (in my opinion, don't fly off the handle at me here) look like their cartoon counter parts. As far as the race goes, isn't it better to cast someone who will portray the role well? Watch the movie before you start complaining about the cast.
For those complaining that, "Oh, Katara and Sokka are white, Zuko shouldn't be Indian," there is a reason as to why they were cast that way. The characters in the original series were designed to be based almost entirely off the Asian culture. However, in the movie, they wanted to expand the nations some, make them much more diverse culturally, hence some of the casting choices.
yea but they made a pretty bad decision of making the main character's ethnic identity from asian to white.. like right now it seems like asia vs. whites since they kept the fire nation asian but made all the protagonists (aang, sokka, katara) white.
me personally was disappointed about some of the cast no mean to offend but shouldnt the firebenders be asian not middle eatern i don't mean to sound bad but thats just my opinion but overall i think it's a great cast
You know, for people who are excited to see the film you have more bad things to say about the cast than anything about what the contents of the movie will be. We know that its gonna be book 1 so Azula is out and I think Jet is also. But remember folks, the cast yes they may have to pull off the characters we all love and know, but in the end this is a big budget Hollywood film and its gonna be special effects driven, GIJOE ring a bell peeps? The only failing I see is the director.
What's wrong with M Night Shyamalan? He's a great director. Although I personally see nothing wrong with him, I acknowlege that others have complained about his movies before. But to my understanding, their complaints retain to his self-written stories. Well in case you need a reminder, M Night didn't make up the story of The Last Aibender. He's just a fan like us, who wants to make it into a cool film. And as far as his skill as a director goes, you can't deny he puts on an intense show.
@waterbendergareth He's a TERRIBLE actor. All the proof you need is in the fact he called twilight the "perfect movie." Yes thats right, to M. Night, twilight is cinema at it's best.
Besides, Sixth Sense, his movies have been universally disliked (even HATED), each one more then the last. You can't JUST blame it on him being a bad writer, it's the whole package.
My hopes for this movie are very low.
PS- Whoever cast Iroh should be punched in the gut.
@Captbigbeard I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with your claim that his movies are universally disliked on the basis that myself (an intelligent, educated and sophisticated movie viewer), as well as many people I know, including a lot of my friends who are fairly critical of movies all like M Night's movies for the most part. I think the only movie of his that was "universally" disliked was The Happening, because I don't know anyone who liked that movie.
@waterbendergareth Universally was to strong a word. But his movies for the most part received negative reviews (press and viewers), with the exception of obviously Sixth Sense and also Signs (the latter which received fairly average reviews.) Lady in the Water was nearly as poorly received as the Happening. I don't know a single person who liked any of his stuff after signs.
Sixth Sense was the only one of his movies to receive noticeably positive attention.
@waterbendergareth I have to agree with you partially on M. Night, he started out really good, his best film in my opinion is UNBREAKABLE. EVer since the Village his movies have strated to go down hill but advanced word on this movie is pretty good so the movie may turn pout well. I do agree with you on Tony Shoub as Iroh, he's a really good actor. He's was good as Yensin in Iron Man and he was really moving in Crash.
@maddog372 It's true. I, personally, am very excited to see the character of Iroh portrayed by such a great actor. I'm thankful that they're taking the cast seriously as far as casting quality actors opposed to just big names. I don't think Shaun Toub has ever been necessarily a big name, but he's certainly a better actor than others they could've cast. And I think the same is true for the rest of the cast: quality over fame.
@waterbendergareth Yeah i hope this girl can act because she is nothing like Katara.and a tan isn't going to do her physical apperance justice.Katara is Brown NOT "TAN"!!!!!!!!! same with other members of the water tribe.
Fire naton were cleaely East Asian based along with majority of the Earth kingdom.
Noah is actually the perfect age for Aang. If anything, hes not young enough, cause he'll be aging as they make the trilogy.
Zuko does, actually, have a scar. Its just really hard to see because of the realism that the makeup department was going for.
Jet is - as much as I hate to say it - expendable. Im not sure that he'll appear in the film. Theres a good chance he may have been dropped from the script at some point.
Azula doesn't come until book 2. They wont cast her until the sequel
...And you think that they'll include that cameo in the movie?
Even if it didn't mean casting a major character (who should be cast with great care, and hence; wait til they can aford to pay a good actress to come on board when she's actually important), I don't think that including that cameo in the movie would even cross their mind.
I would think that there are plenty of important things that they would leave out of the movie...or at least...things theat WE think are important. If you look at it from a filmmakers point of view, do you think that they'd consider a character who has just a few seconds of screen time and no dialogue important? She'll be in the sequel. There's no questioning that. But do you honestly think that it will degrade the film's quality if they don't foreshadow who the villian who is in the sequel?
Yes, I know. I am aware that they wrote the script so that it will fit for the actors to all be a year or two older when they film each of the sequels. So yes, the story's time line will be significantly stretched out.
Why are they hastily making the cast... So wrong! Actors must be believable not only in portraying the characters personality but also the look of the character.
I didn't really agree fully with the casting but I'll give the director the benefit of the doubt. your never going to get everyone to be happy about the cast, especially when so many people like it. I wont judge them by there looks I'll wait and hope they pull the characters off :) and if they don't i can always watch the cartoons! I'm looking forward to seeing it!
by the looks of it the fire nation is going to be presented as more of an India type culture, i dont think this is necessarily a bad thing because the creators of the show worked with Shamalan on this movie
Just because the movie is eastern culture dosen't mean they all have to be Chinese. They were chosen because they are good in acting. You can't expect them to look exactly like the cartoon characters. It's just a normal picture of them, not the way they're gonna look in the film.
earth - rural china and other smaller asian countries (Laos, vietnam, japan, etc)
So the cast is a bunch of white kids, some pudgy indian comedian and for Ozai, the man who wants to burn the world to a cinder... The least threatening guy form New Zealand they could find.
This is the worst possible cats they could have mustered. Not to mention Gene Simmons as the dragon.
oh no!! what ppl are going to ruin the story? If only they ressemble a little bit the firenation-people, I would say "okay, not perfect but okay". but whats this? Ah!!! *shocked*
WTF Y R ALL THE FIRENATION PPL INDIAN?! THEYRE SUPPOSE 2 BE CHINESE! im not tryin to be racist, but this isnt avatar unless it follows the actual story! the firenation ppl r chinese w/ chinese clothing, hair, culture, & c'mon the chinese r the one who came up w/ fireworks & bombs so obviously theyre suppose to be fire nation! the actor for aang looks too serious, aang is this free-spirited happy kid wtf. sokka's actor looks like a duche not some funny jokester like sokka. jessica andres = hot!
I had no idea about Hammil, I know he's an incredible voice actor, and has voiced every Joker for the Batman cartoons, But I think that the cast of this live action version of Avatar is an intriguing combination. I do believe that making the Fire Nation Indian was a risky move, but I think it could work. It's like how Star Wars Episode I-III will never be as good as the originals, you've just got to accept that if it's how it's going to be, there's no use fighting it. Well that's my two cents.
Firebending is actually based on the Northern Shaolin Kung Fu Style (strong base with powerful arm strikes). The cast is terrible. I don't know how any of them is gonna be able to pull off the moves. Shoulda gotten someone like Donnie Yen to play Ozai. He can beat the crap out of everybody even without the fire!
I don't really know much about them as actors, but they look wrong. Katara and sokka should have darker skin, and the Fire Nation characters have the opposite problem. It'll be okay if they portray the characters well, but otherwise it's just stupid.
Why is everybody so fed up with the casting? I think they look perfectly fine:)
I mean they couldn't look exactly like in the series because nobody looks like that! And why is everybody being a crybaby about the origins of the actors I mean come on..
Have a little fantasie and enjoy the story instead of nagging about how the characters look, I mean they are actors I am sure they'll do great!
I think it's weird that they cast Indian people to play characters with very Chinese names. I would've tried to cast Katara and Sokka with people of Eskimo descent. The whole casting is just off in my opinion, but I might be happy with their acting once I actually see it, since Dev Patel is so talented.
wtf the castings all wrong .why is fire nation indian?...oh and cliff Curtis isn't indian by the way hes new zealander ...but i do hope this movies atleast half decent
The first movie that comes out next Summer is going to one of the trilogies. Remember Toph comes in way later in the series? She's probably going to come out in the next movie. I can't wait!!! LOL yeah, definitely consider "the Cabbage man" though :D
i think this cast is awesome! i hate all you people saying its racist..its racist to say that everyone is supposed to be chinese. come on people give this a chance! i think shyamalan did this so the world of avatar would have more diversity in ethnicity then just chinese people
its a bit strange that in the series the water tribe has darker skin much like the inuits and yet are cast as white and that the fire nation had fairer skin (in ancient china fair skin was considered to be royalty which is one of the reason zuko and his whole fam were light skinned) and they were cast as having darker complextions and NONE are asian! D: (even though the show is based on chinese)
funny and a bit ironic but not completly accurate, director shoulda done his homework :)
Hey in season 1 only his body is shown if u actually know avatar then u would know that god wats ur problem he mite not have the face but his body will b shown so STFU about ozai
heyyyy now now! what if they do extremely well in the movie? its like rather have someone who looks almost nothing like the char and have a good movie or have someone who looks like the char and not know wtf theyre doing
... they made a mistake casting dev patel although i think hes a great actor it pretty much made them epic failed with the race the only full indian character that i saw in the WHOLE series was the guru is the the 2 series ( earth ) and having white people as the water tribe . bit strange.
India is in Asia therefore they're asian. but look at it the smart way though. they cast Dev Patel as Zuko. ok now how would it look if they had like japanese and chinese people for everyone else? so how do u balance it? cast the fire nation as Indians right?
Everyone is freaking out about race, but what I am really concerned about is how the actors portray their charaters. Yeah, I will admit, I wish there were more Japanese/Chinese actors cast, but I can look past that as long as the actors do their jobs and portray our beloved characters accurately. Do them justice, please!
finally, an optimistic view on Shyamalan's upcoming film. Your view is refreshing and highlights the pros of this cast for me. Well done video as well. Thanks for sharing your love for the film and making it easier for others to see/compare the cast.
NOOO! I DONT THINK AZULA SHOULD BE PLAYED BY AN INDIAN. IT JUS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! and it wouldn't make sense for her to be asian anymore since the entire firenation's indian. but then again Aang's white... this is STUPID! FUCK IT MAKE HER ASIAN THEN PPL WILL AT LEAST LIKE HER
i choose not to dislike those with different choices ^^ even those whom i'm supposed to dislike lol.
but, even if they dont like the villain, we want to at least take the villain seriously. and if we can take the villain seriously in a movie, then we like them!
No. And this has to be like the 100th time that I've answered this question (and I'm not even exagurating). Toph isn't in the movie, cause it's only book 1. Toph wasn't in book 1. So she won't be coming until the second film.
Didn't you hear what I just said? Not to be rude or anything, but seriously. Hasn't the word spread enough now that people should be able to figure it out for themselves? Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, Toph, and/or any other character that doesn't appear until book 2 WILL NOT be in this movie. This movie is JUST BOOK 1. The meantioned characters will be cast for the sequel, which won't start production at least until the first film has finished post-production. Again, I'm sorry if I sounded rude at all.
Roku will be played by guy named Ben Cooke. His film work mainly cosists of being a stunt double in a variety of big-budget movies. But he's had a few minor acting roles in a couple of them.
because shyamalan is indian, and he wanted to put all his fellas in the movie... I thought the movie would be somekinda... against racism but know it's pretty racist
neither do Jackson Fagbone or the girl playin katara. and for your information Dev and Shaun are probably two of the better actors that they have on this movie.
Wow, the slumdog kid for Zuko? Really? No offense the whole skin thing they did mess up, I mean Zuko if anyone on the show was white. Katara and Sokka actually looked Native American, and Aang well yeah hes Asian. But yeah of all they got Zuko way wrong.
Why was the Fire Nation almost ALL INDIAN people?! I mean come on. The fire nation was obviously white, or asian in the anime...
PhildeCritic 4 weeks ago
What the fuck, the film is martial arts and some nob makes it Bollywood? Fucking fail.
666BrotherofMetal 3 months ago
they got sokka, aang, and iroh's names wrong.
sumanaluvsfetch 5 months ago
THIS MOVIE SUCKED
belftankadin 11 months ago
hope they don't make a second movie cause the first one sucks (in my opinion)
oblivianblackarrow 1 year ago
they should have used Chuck Norris to play the avatar
builder802 1 year ago
@builder802 Chuch Norris as Roku.......You blew my mind with that! 8D
JakenJragin 1 year ago
OMG THE GUY WHO IS CASTED AS OZAI IS FUCKING UGLY CHESSY LAME
- WHY WOULD THEY CAST THE GUY FROM PIZZA HUT BOSS FROM SPIDER-MAN
2 ..WTF AND IROH OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
brucelston 1 year ago
Of course M. Night Shamalongadingdong would cast a bunch of Haji's and Crackers to play as characters based on Chinese folklore... I have to hand it to you Hollywood... You sure know how to fuck with my childhood and culture.
It's MY opinion, but the movie was an absolute let down for me... Especially the casting.
:/
ANDl23W 1 year ago
@MegaPopomaster Agreed!
slavaplaybball 1 year ago
These dnt look anything like them they could of done better I'm gonna tear bend
pablopufferfish 1 year ago
I can never get tired of watching The Last Airbender Cast Update: Iroh, Zhao and Ozai have been cast!!!! You can see it in here: #url#
maniackw 1 year ago
I'm sorry but Aasif Mandvi made an ugly version of Zhao in the movie. Not to be an hater or anything. I just can't see the him being Zhao lol.
dizvi3tboi2 1 year ago
taboo as ozai who's with me!
ryannr619 1 year ago
That's the same for many hair details, dressing, places, etc.
RackinRM 1 year ago
I saw many trailers and i think characterization won't be really nice.
On tv serie, Iroh was fat, except from his time in jail, on 3rd season, the fire.
RackinRM 1 year ago
Nicola pelts and seychelle gabriel hot..
( that katara and yue)
faheeminator 1 year ago
Why are the important Fire nation people look indian
TerkoizRayne 1 year ago
@TerkoizRayne you do know that indians are also asian.
maju786 1 year ago
I saw it tonight....and Didn't care for Iroh. Everyone else seemed pretty well casted, but Iroh was not jolly, fat or wise enough. I miss his deep scratchy voice and huge gray chops!
slavaplaybball 1 year ago
@slavaplaybball I saw the midnight premiere. Surprisingly, Iroh was one of the only two characters that I had no disappointment in. The other character that I had no disappointments in was Zuko. Dev Patel was AMAZING!
waterbendergareth 1 year ago
The Kyoshi Warriors aren't going to be in the movie, so possibly Suki isn't either
ThetrueBallgurl97 1 year ago
@ThetrueBallgurl97 Yeah, Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors were both cut out of the final version of the film, even though there were actresses cast for them and they had even filmed scenes with them. There will probably be deleted scenes on the DVD or something.
waterbendergareth 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth guess wat i want....chocolate rain!!!!!!!!
aricaric18 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth I saw a scene with them from either a trailer or the movie-to-book thing and they really toned down the make-up. Instead of the full Kabuki-style make-up they just have a red line under each eye and some lipstick. Suki's headdress is also understated and qualifies more as a headband.
Aracknia 1 year ago
my opion Nicola Peltz DON'T look like Katara :(
DesireeColeOfficiall 1 year ago
holy fk .... the charactars are not right for the movie .. they killed it
bryanhdez123 1 year ago
You are being WAY too optomistic about this. These people look nothing like the characters the play, and you say "OH, THEY'RE GONNA ROCK!!!!!!111111 WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!!!!11111"
Mrules4ever 1 year ago 2
Japanese/Chinese influenced Fire Nation is not Indian.
Inuit Water Nation and Shaolin influenced Air Nation are not white.
EyeOfTheElite 1 year ago 2
@EyeOfTheElite Air isn't Shaolin... It's Ba Gua and based on nomadic buddhist culture.
conure1owner 1 year ago
@conure1owner Shaolins are buddhists and one of their fighting styles was the Ba Gua. >_>
EyeOfTheElite 1 year ago
I wonder who plays the guy who always gets his cabbages wrecked!!!???? HAHA
dbelch10 1 year ago 10
@dbelch10 Sadly, M Night has already confirmed that the cabbage man won't make an appearance in the film :(
waterbendergareth 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth M. Night is really twisting the story!!
aapricot816 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth not the foaming-mouth guy either!
hokage97531 1 year ago
@dbelch10 Or the foamy mouth guy.
shadowmuniplitive 1 year ago
noooooo i love iroh! why the hell would they do that!!!!
rikoxasora 1 year ago
no toph suks
laverde92399 1 year ago
Dudes i have a hunch that will be a bad movie, i hope will wrong but M.night shamawhatever i'ts a bad director and i see somenthing..............this guy write the script, not Brain K or Michael Dimartino .....uffff will see..........
ikaruhichijo 1 year ago
good for m night making an entire cast of stinky indians
BrotherGilbert69 1 year ago
this cast sucks elephant dick...seriously the have got to be kidding. The slumdog millionaire kid is just ridiculous for Zuko...probably could have gotten away with using Dante Basco his VA...even tho he's like 30. Iroh is terrible, Ozai should be jet li or donnie yen or some one who at least knows kung fu...I don't give a flying fuck who plays Zhao but these choices are AWFUL.
yarealpoof 1 year ago
the guy who plays Iroh actually looks like him! literally lol o.o
TwiliVaati 1 year ago
is momo in it?
ILMARINBAND 1 year ago
@ILMARINBAND Absolutely! They couldnt make a Last Airbender movie without Momo. He's been talked about a lot the movie simply because he had no significant purpose in the story, or any kind of smbolic meaning in the world. M Night had asked his daughters how they would feel about Momo not being in the movie and they got so upset with him for even suggesting the absence of Momo that he promised them very early on in the wrighting process that Momo would be in the film.
waterbendergareth 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth thanks for letting me know, i find he is one of the comic relief characters, and i would be disappointed if he wasnt included in the movie as he does have some important parts in the plot e.g with the fire sages in roku's temple
ILMARINBAND 1 year ago
msbapette 1 year ago
bcyds the fact dt none of the actors lok lyk their cartoon counterparts i dnt mind the cast as long as they play the caractas well............... o nd um dnt thnk the fire nation is entirely middle eastern bcos cliff curtis aka firelord ozai is maori (native new zealand) which s nt middle eastern or asian nd obviously nt caucasian
fairyshy 1 year ago
Aasif Madvi is going to be beating a fish to death with his bare hands aparently...This movie has got me.
MrProminance1 1 year ago
Thank you for actually being optimistic about the cast. I think they'll all do great. But most everyone else thinks it's gonna suck cuz the cast doesn't look exactly like the cartoon. I'm stoked!
NinjaChick371 1 year ago
I really think the casting for this movie is great despite the cries of racism flying around. The actors (in my opinion, don't fly off the handle at me here) look like their cartoon counter parts. As far as the race goes, isn't it better to cast someone who will portray the role well? Watch the movie before you start complaining about the cast.
FrillyDoom17 1 year ago
I feel I'm gonna blow chunks. Thet're stripping the characters of ALL their trademarks!!
CathannahShowani 1 year ago
couldnt you pick a better background music. That is horrible
oskiH 1 year ago 2
For those complaining that, "Oh, Katara and Sokka are white, Zuko shouldn't be Indian," there is a reason as to why they were cast that way. The characters in the original series were designed to be based almost entirely off the Asian culture. However, in the movie, they wanted to expand the nations some, make them much more diverse culturally, hence some of the casting choices.
AuraHero 1 year ago 2
Make it more diverse? That's rubbish. They pushed almost all the non-white people into supporting roles! I'd call that racist.
And if you watch the trailer, Patel's skin looks really pale.
7410n0 1 year ago
yea but they made a pretty bad decision of making the main character's ethnic identity from asian to white.. like right now it seems like asia vs. whites since they kept the fire nation asian but made all the protagonists (aang, sokka, katara) white.
tokee1234567 1 year ago
me personally was disappointed about some of the cast no mean to offend but shouldnt the firebenders be asian not middle eatern i don't mean to sound bad but thats just my opinion but overall i think it's a great cast
10HitsugayaToshiro 2 years ago
dont worry then coz youre wrong... none of them are arab fool.. get a better definition of middle eastern
demonheart1514 1 year ago
this is the best. i think the word avatar has a curse where anything with the same name turns out so dam good
connortimoti 2 years ago
You know, for people who are excited to see the film you have more bad things to say about the cast than anything about what the contents of the movie will be. We know that its gonna be book 1 so Azula is out and I think Jet is also. But remember folks, the cast yes they may have to pull off the characters we all love and know, but in the end this is a big budget Hollywood film and its gonna be special effects driven, GIJOE ring a bell peeps? The only failing I see is the director.
falcon47 2 years ago
What's wrong with M Night Shyamalan? He's a great director. Although I personally see nothing wrong with him, I acknowlege that others have complained about his movies before. But to my understanding, their complaints retain to his self-written stories. Well in case you need a reminder, M Night didn't make up the story of The Last Aibender. He's just a fan like us, who wants to make it into a cool film. And as far as his skill as a director goes, you can't deny he puts on an intense show.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
@waterbendergareth He's a TERRIBLE actor. All the proof you need is in the fact he called twilight the "perfect movie." Yes thats right, to M. Night, twilight is cinema at it's best.
Besides, Sixth Sense, his movies have been universally disliked (even HATED), each one more then the last. You can't JUST blame it on him being a bad writer, it's the whole package.
My hopes for this movie are very low.
PS- Whoever cast Iroh should be punched in the gut.
Captbigbeard 1 year ago
@Captbigbeard I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with your claim that his movies are universally disliked on the basis that myself (an intelligent, educated and sophisticated movie viewer), as well as many people I know, including a lot of my friends who are fairly critical of movies all like M Night's movies for the most part. I think the only movie of his that was "universally" disliked was The Happening, because I don't know anyone who liked that movie.
waterbendergareth 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth Universally was to strong a word. But his movies for the most part received negative reviews (press and viewers), with the exception of obviously Sixth Sense and also Signs (the latter which received fairly average reviews.) Lady in the Water was nearly as poorly received as the Happening. I don't know a single person who liked any of his stuff after signs.
Sixth Sense was the only one of his movies to receive noticeably positive attention.
Captbigbeard 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth I have to agree with you partially on M. Night, he started out really good, his best film in my opinion is UNBREAKABLE. EVer since the Village his movies have strated to go down hill but advanced word on this movie is pretty good so the movie may turn pout well. I do agree with you on Tony Shoub as Iroh, he's a really good actor. He's was good as Yensin in Iron Man and he was really moving in Crash.
maddog372 1 year ago
@maddog372 It's true. I, personally, am very excited to see the character of Iroh portrayed by such a great actor. I'm thankful that they're taking the cast seriously as far as casting quality actors opposed to just big names. I don't think Shaun Toub has ever been necessarily a big name, but he's certainly a better actor than others they could've cast. And I think the same is true for the rest of the cast: quality over fame.
waterbendergareth 1 year ago
@waterbendergareth Yeah i hope this girl can act because she is nothing like Katara.and a tan isn't going to do her physical apperance justice.Katara is Brown NOT "TAN"!!!!!!!!! same with other members of the water tribe.
Fire naton were cleaely East Asian based along with majority of the Earth kingdom.
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prokofiyucuhyb 2 years ago
yeah i think the cast killed it.. aang looks too young, zuko doesn't even have a scar, and where's the other people like jet and azula?
thevu62 2 years ago
Noah is actually the perfect age for Aang. If anything, hes not young enough, cause he'll be aging as they make the trilogy.
Zuko does, actually, have a scar. Its just really hard to see because of the realism that the makeup department was going for.
Jet is - as much as I hate to say it - expendable. Im not sure that he'll appear in the film. Theres a good chance he may have been dropped from the script at some point.
Azula doesn't come until book 2. They wont cast her until the sequel
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
i see, but in book one, azula makes a cameo in the zuko vs ozai flashback
thevu62 2 years ago
...And you think that they'll include that cameo in the movie?
Even if it didn't mean casting a major character (who should be cast with great care, and hence; wait til they can aford to pay a good actress to come on board when she's actually important), I don't think that including that cameo in the movie would even cross their mind.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
@waterbendergareth well they're gonna miss a big part of the movie. the foreshadowing is really important
thevu62 2 years ago
I would think that there are plenty of important things that they would leave out of the movie...or at least...things theat WE think are important. If you look at it from a filmmakers point of view, do you think that they'd consider a character who has just a few seconds of screen time and no dialogue important? She'll be in the sequel. There's no questioning that. But do you honestly think that it will degrade the film's quality if they don't foreshadow who the villian who is in the sequel?
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
@waterbendergareth ther going to change the time aang has from months to a couple of years. but thats what i got from jeff palmer channel.
crazyassassinkill 2 years ago
Yes, I know. I am aware that they wrote the script so that it will fit for the actors to all be a year or two older when they film each of the sequels. So yes, the story's time line will be significantly stretched out.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
no offense but that song sucked
JustinAfele 2 years ago
Why are they hastily making the cast... So wrong! Actors must be believable not only in portraying the characters personality but also the look of the character.
reyreaper23 2 years ago
wtf is with the Indian cast damn it get some people who actually look like the characters ever time i see zuko i want to through up
itachirocks12345 2 years ago
CHOCOLATE RAIN is by far the worst song ever.
stinkomalinko 2 years ago 2
zuko could be allright and that guy looks nothing like zhao.
scarx89 2 years ago
I didn't really agree fully with the casting but I'll give the director the benefit of the doubt. your never going to get everyone to be happy about the cast, especially when so many people like it. I wont judge them by there looks I'll wait and hope they pull the characters off :) and if they don't i can always watch the cartoons! I'm looking forward to seeing it!
djww4 2 years ago
zuko as dev?? i don't see it personally-- casting kind of ruining avatar for me
PocketMonsterAlice 2 years ago 2
i think the movie is going to ruin avatar
Dneiko1 2 years ago
wow this casting is terrible!
Mandiefire 2 years ago 2
@Mandiefire Ummm....no it's not....
PJOpwns 1 year ago
by the looks of it the fire nation is going to be presented as more of an India type culture, i dont think this is necessarily a bad thing because the creators of the show worked with Shamalan on this movie
schnips074 2 years ago
Just because the movie is eastern culture dosen't mean they all have to be Chinese. They were chosen because they are good in acting. You can't expect them to look exactly like the cartoon characters. It's just a normal picture of them, not the way they're gonna look in the film.
catherinesayshi2you 2 years ago
So the nations very obviously represent:
water - inuit and similar
air - tibet
fire - Imperial China
earth - rural china and other smaller asian countries (Laos, vietnam, japan, etc)
So the cast is a bunch of white kids, some pudgy indian comedian and for Ozai, the man who wants to burn the world to a cinder... The least threatening guy form New Zealand they could find.
This is the worst possible cats they could have mustered. Not to mention Gene Simmons as the dragon.
broodovermind 2 years ago 2
lol chocolate rain
oddly appropriate
rockleebroccoli01 2 years ago
wth Iroh?
rockleebroccoli01 2 years ago
i dont see clif olaying as ozai and dev looks nouthing like ZUKO
pinkmuffinable 2 years ago
i dont c the dude whos gonna play as zhao,OR ozai.HUGE AVATAR FAN!
TheFirebender95 2 years ago
oh no!! what ppl are going to ruin the story? If only they ressemble a little bit the firenation-people, I would say "okay, not perfect but okay". but whats this? Ah!!! *shocked*
Dacra100 2 years ago
cliff curtis isn't indian... He's from new zealand...
XllL00tXll 2 years ago
WTF Y R ALL THE FIRENATION PPL INDIAN?! THEYRE SUPPOSE 2 BE CHINESE! im not tryin to be racist, but this isnt avatar unless it follows the actual story! the firenation ppl r chinese w/ chinese clothing, hair, culture, & c'mon the chinese r the one who came up w/ fireworks & bombs so obviously theyre suppose to be fire nation! the actor for aang looks too serious, aang is this free-spirited happy kid wtf. sokka's actor looks like a duche not some funny jokester like sokka. jessica andres = hot!
effinbored2death 2 years ago 2
Actually, Firebending styles are based on Japanese fighting. And Mark Hammil (the guy that played Luke Skywalker) played the part of Fire Lord Ozai.
Darlgajl 2 years ago
I had no idea about Hammil, I know he's an incredible voice actor, and has voiced every Joker for the Batman cartoons, But I think that the cast of this live action version of Avatar is an intriguing combination. I do believe that making the Fire Nation Indian was a risky move, but I think it could work. It's like how Star Wars Episode I-III will never be as good as the originals, you've just got to accept that if it's how it's going to be, there's no use fighting it. Well that's my two cents.
CrazyAnimatorOfDoom 2 years ago
Firebending is actually based on the Northern Shaolin Kung Fu Style (strong base with powerful arm strikes). The cast is terrible. I don't know how any of them is gonna be able to pull off the moves. Shoulda gotten someone like Donnie Yen to play Ozai. He can beat the crap out of everybody even without the fire!
chilibun 2 years ago 10
@chilibun i agree 100 %
scarx89 2 years ago
I don't really know much about them as actors, but they look wrong. Katara and sokka should have darker skin, and the Fire Nation characters have the opposite problem. It'll be okay if they portray the characters well, but otherwise it's just stupid.
AkiraFirebender 2 years ago
Why is everybody so fed up with the casting? I think they look perfectly fine:)
I mean they couldn't look exactly like in the series because nobody looks like that! And why is everybody being a crybaby about the origins of the actors I mean come on..
Have a little fantasie and enjoy the story instead of nagging about how the characters look, I mean they are actors I am sure they'll do great!
Avena93 2 years ago
who is going to play Toph?
1043044295 2 years ago
Nobody is going to play Toph. Toph isn't in the movie. It's just book 1. She won't be cast till the sequel.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
Oh, I see.
1043044295 2 years ago
Haha. Interesting song choice. I just listened to this song earlier Lol.
AkinaWaters 2 years ago
I think it's weird that they cast Indian people to play characters with very Chinese names. I would've tried to cast Katara and Sokka with people of Eskimo descent. The whole casting is just off in my opinion, but I might be happy with their acting once I actually see it, since Dev Patel is so talented.
SlaveToTheTheater 2 years ago
Zuko: with lighter skin and a scar, zuko will be awesome.
Iroh: with a longer beard and lighter skin iroh will be awesome.
im not being racist. just mai opinion
Crumbleberry 2 years ago
I can really see dev patel as prince zuko
MyTakeOnThisMess 2 years ago
Why?? Katara doesn't fit at all!!
NekoChanSan 2 years ago
wtf the castings all wrong .why is fire nation indian?...oh and cliff Curtis isn't indian by the way hes new zealander ...but i do hope this movies atleast half decent
okere6 2 years ago
WHERE IS THE CABBAGE MAN!!
and toph, where the hell is she??
hermioniehalliwell03 2 years ago
im pretty sure the movie is about the first book... and Toph isnt in the first book :(:(
kevink23 2 years ago
The first movie that comes out next Summer is going to one of the trilogies. Remember Toph comes in way later in the series? She's probably going to come out in the next movie. I can't wait!!! LOL yeah, definitely consider "the Cabbage man" though :D
sweetangelette 2 years ago
what about TOPH!!!
Mewmewsia2057 2 years ago
toph wasn't in book 1. book 1 is the first movie
happybirthdayhomie 2 years ago
I luv the cast choices I WANT TOPH!!!!
XD UNCLE IROH!!!!!!!!! YEA uh oh fire lord ozai O.e
ThePingShowJL 2 years ago
Iroh, Sokka and Ozai are all total fail
zikten 2 years ago
i think this cast is awesome! i hate all you people saying its racist..its racist to say that everyone is supposed to be chinese. come on people give this a chance! i think shyamalan did this so the world of avatar would have more diversity in ethnicity then just chinese people
stratisfire 2 years ago
its a bit strange that in the series the water tribe has darker skin much like the inuits and yet are cast as white and that the fire nation had fairer skin (in ancient china fair skin was considered to be royalty which is one of the reason zuko and his whole fam were light skinned) and they were cast as having darker complextions and NONE are asian! D: (even though the show is based on chinese)
funny and a bit ironic but not completly accurate, director shoulda done his homework :)
Chaosmelon 2 years ago
i think shaun toub should grow hair and play Master Pakku, not Iroh. i hope he does well.
PoppinXRay 2 years ago
ozai, WTF he looks nothing like him what the hell is going on man do they just, cast people even if they,dont look like the original character
ukrainman20 2 years ago 2
Hey in season 1 only his body is shown if u actually know avatar then u would know that god wats ur problem he mite not have the face but his body will b shown so STFU about ozai
zantua112 2 years ago
yeh >:O
VXaCeXV 2 years ago
heyyyy now now! what if they do extremely well in the movie? its like rather have someone who looks almost nothing like the char and have a good movie or have someone who looks like the char and not know wtf theyre doing
Nemisis2290 2 years ago
They shoulda casted indians to play Katara and Socca
And white guys for every one else
dxclusiv94 2 years ago
... they made a mistake casting dev patel although i think hes a great actor it pretty much made them epic failed with the race the only full indian character that i saw in the WHOLE series was the guru is the the 2 series ( earth ) and having white people as the water tribe . bit strange.
rergi13 2 years ago
eww
lucianwindgates 2 years ago
I don't like the earthbender father!! HUH!
MissUlya 2 years ago
Cliff Curtis.... Dev Patel....? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?!?
DekuBub 2 years ago
i'll see it, but i'm just wondering how they're going to work in all the Asian influence with a largely Middle Eastern/Indian Fire Nation cast lol
slifer268 2 years ago
India is in Asia therefore they're asian. but look at it the smart way though. they cast Dev Patel as Zuko. ok now how would it look if they had like japanese and chinese people for everyone else? so how do u balance it? cast the fire nation as Indians right?
PoppinXRay 2 years ago
I am dissapointed in who they casted, therefor I will not see this movie.
iEatSammichs 2 years ago
Everyone is freaking out about race, but what I am really concerned about is how the actors portray their charaters. Yeah, I will admit, I wish there were more Japanese/Chinese actors cast, but I can look past that as long as the actors do their jobs and portray our beloved characters accurately. Do them justice, please!
JuuhachigouSama 2 years ago 2
fire nation actors should be pale, and katara and soka should be tan xD
BrunopXD 2 years ago 5
Why are all the firebenders Indian in the show they were ASIAN!!!!
kidcrazy310 2 years ago 3
I think Dev and jackson should swich their papers.
anpaparaven 2 years ago 2
Agreed!!!
panicXandXbliss 2 years ago
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Three5ty 2 years ago
finally, an optimistic view on Shyamalan's upcoming film. Your view is refreshing and highlights the pros of this cast for me. Well done video as well. Thanks for sharing your love for the film and making it easier for others to see/compare the cast.
EmpEli 2 years ago
NOOO! I DONT THINK AZULA SHOULD BE PLAYED BY AN INDIAN. IT JUS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! and it wouldn't make sense for her to be asian anymore since the entire firenation's indian. but then again Aang's white... this is STUPID! FUCK IT MAKE HER ASIAN THEN PPL WILL AT LEAST LIKE HER
RCman 2 years ago
People aren't supposed to like Azula.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
haha are you seroius?? SHE'S ONE OF THE TIGHTEST CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW! we're not supposed to like her-_-.... wow
RCman 2 years ago
Uhm...She's the villian. You're not supposed to like the villian.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
i choose not to dislike those with different choices ^^ even those whom i'm supposed to dislike lol.
but, even if they dont like the villain, we want to at least take the villain seriously. and if we can take the villain seriously in a movie, then we like them!
RCman 2 years ago
Yes, we do need to take the villian seriously. That is very important. But I will still dislike her character - while taking her seriously.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
agreed ^^
RCman 2 years ago
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Three5ty 2 years ago
INDIAN=ASIAN....MORON....
MisterSheeBang 2 years ago
dude cool down, it could have worse, like the dragonball evolution movie..
XxSweetLady 2 years ago
firebenders = indian ppls
earth benders = chinese
water bender = white peoples
air bender = mulatto baby
xpnoysosickx 2 years ago
omygawd jackson?! now i KNOW ima see this movie!! <3
SecretUnicornClubSK 2 years ago
i sincerely would had prefered jackson as zuko and dev as zokka. then katara isn't white and finally all adults are ugly yuck!!
a17morseth 2 years ago
is toph not gunna be in the movie? D:
BlackAnimeKat13 2 years ago
No. And this has to be like the 100th time that I've answered this question (and I'm not even exagurating). Toph isn't in the movie, cause it's only book 1. Toph wasn't in book 1. So she won't be coming until the second film.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
oh... sry for troubling you -sweatdrop-
BlackAnimeKat13 2 years ago
wat about azula
Sophmore44 2 years ago
Didn't you hear what I just said? Not to be rude or anything, but seriously. Hasn't the word spread enough now that people should be able to figure it out for themselves? Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, Toph, and/or any other character that doesn't appear until book 2 WILL NOT be in this movie. This movie is JUST BOOK 1. The meantioned characters will be cast for the sequel, which won't start production at least until the first film has finished post-production. Again, I'm sorry if I sounded rude at all.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
technically azula was in the first book
Sophmore44 2 years ago
Yeah, but she didn't have any lines, or even any significance. She had only like 2 seconds of screen time.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
and also wat about roku
Sophmore44 2 years ago
Roku will be played by guy named Ben Cooke. His film work mainly cosists of being a stunt double in a variety of big-budget movies. But he's had a few minor acting roles in a couple of them.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
Great movie comin
BengalG3 2 years ago
omfg saka shouldnt be white!! he should be mexican color not white!!
godswordofsaradomin 2 years ago
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the0X0finder86 2 years ago
why are all the fire benders indian?
Darviotube 2 years ago
because shyamalan is indian, and he wanted to put all his fellas in the movie... I thought the movie would be somekinda... against racism but know it's pretty racist
PatBatemannnnn 2 years ago
TOPH!!!!!!! :,[
wattheDICKENSvincent 2 years ago
I dont know about anyone else...but someone who reminded me of Sokka when i first seen him was David Henrie,
that guy who is in Wizards of Waverly Place. I dont know if it is because hes supposed to be "funny" in the show, but he always reminded me of Sokka.
mayumiai55 2 years ago
eehm so how bout toph??
smoothboy17 2 years ago
Not in book 1...
waterbendergareth 2 years ago
the zuko and iroh will ruin the whole movie. they dont look ANYTHING like the characters in the animated series!
eye0see0ghosts 2 years ago
neither do Jackson Fagbone or the girl playin katara. and for your information Dev and Shaun are probably two of the better actors that they have on this movie.
PoppinXRay 2 years ago
Wow, the slumdog kid for Zuko? Really? No offense the whole skin thing they did mess up, I mean Zuko if anyone on the show was white. Katara and Sokka actually looked Native American, and Aang well yeah hes Asian. But yeah of all they got Zuko way wrong.
JaredTD 2 years ago
are you kidding the guy playing zhao looks like micheal jackson if he dident have plastic surgery.........and if he wasnt dead
tommygun641 2 years ago
My sister tried out for the part of Katara but didn't make it ..we both r black belts in Tae Kwon Do
sk8trgurl1 2 years ago
that sucks. some of these actors are learning as they go really.
kookiekook25 2 years ago
uhh were is toff??
nathot101 2 years ago
Toph isn't in book 1.
waterbendergareth 2 years ago