Posted by Jason on April 15th, 2008 at 9:08 pm CST | Category: News

"M. Night Shyamalan’s live-action adaptation of the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender has received an official release date. According to Variety, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies announced the film, re-titled The Last Airbender to avoid confusion with James Cameron’s Avatar, will see release on July 2, 2010. It is the first film to lay claim to that date so far.

Shyamalan, whose film The Happening will be released on June 13, tells Empire Online that he was drawn to the Buddhist and Hindu aspects of the show, noting, “When I realized that is what it was, it really drew me as the template for putting storytelling on a new level. There is a kind of thread that connects Star Wars and The Matrix — the first one. That same thread is in this story, about a forgotten belief system, or the illusion of the world now.”"

Much more in the lank...
http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/15/airbender-to-hit-screens-in-2010/

It seems he *gets* it. Lets just hope he can reign in his ego and keep it to the basics, 3 films or not.