Zuko Recasted For Avatar The Last Airbender Film! OFFICIAL!

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February 05, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" star Dev Patel has joined the cast of M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender," the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Films live-actioner based on a Nick TV series. Dev Patel will is set to play Zuko, a member of the Fire Nation. Jessica Jade Andres has been cast as the Earth Kingdom's representative, Suki.

Jesse McCartney was knocked out of the role of Zuko by scheduling, much to the relief of Avatar fans everywhere. Jackson Rathbone, who is playing Sakka, managed to work around a conflict with "New Moon," the sequel to Twilight. Patel joins newcomer Noah Ringer (Aang), Nicola Peltz (Katara), Jackson Rathbone and Jessica Jade Andres. Production begins in mid-March in Greenland.

In casting Patel and Ringer, a director accustomed to delivering plot twists to audiences got some surprises of his own. Ringer is a complete unknown who was tapped for the title role off an Internet audition. Patel, meanwhile, steps into a role that Jesse McCartney had all but locked up until the actor's second career as a musician got in the way.

"Jesse had tour dates that conflicted with a boot camp I always hold on my films, and where the actors here have to train for martial arts," Shyamalan said.Patel was "already one of the guys I was interested in. Then I saw 'Slumdog Millionaire,' and the kid just grew in my eyes," he said.

Tyro thesp Ringer will play Aang, the film's lead, who is the last of a race of people who can manipulate the elements of air. Ringer, a 12-year-old from Texas, landed the part after demonstrating his martial arts skills in an Internet vid that he posted to a website Shyamalan set up for open virtual auditions.

As soon as we found out, I put together a picture of him as Zuko. I think the scar turned out pretty good. It's not an official picture!

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noffy626 (10 hours ago) Show Hide

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thats kinda weird but i agree haha

dustybookshelf (2 days ago) Show Hide

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i love zuko but why did i just run away when i saw dev patel?

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I will not be seeing the movie, solely because of the cast. No offence to anyone, but EVERYONE in the show cept Guru is ASIAN. And Zuko if liked by a lot of girls, no one wants to drool over the Slumdog Prancing Queer.

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i hope katara is just as hot in the movie as in the anime

TheCentralasian (4 days ago) Show Hide

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The only hindu in Avatar toons was Guru

Mrsflowerm (5 days ago) Show Hide

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I hate that he's going to play Zuko, Zuko have too be hot!!

deglade00 (6 days ago) Show Hide

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MAN YOU SO RIGHT!!!

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Dev is going to be such a great Zuko!!!

tchang317 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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but zuko is pale

dupersloby (1 week ago) Show Hide

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shhhhhhhh.....

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