During the Licensing International Expo 2008, was the official announcement of Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures for "The Last Airbender," film adaptation of the animated series "Avatar - The Last Airbender". It was this event in the screenwriter and director M. Night Shyamalan ( "The Sixth Sense" - picture 1), which showed the public all his enthusiasm with the project, which will be his first blockbuster of a large scale.

Shyamalan said he watched some episodes of the design with their children and thought that history would make a great movie. On the same occasion, the wife of filmmaker said that this was the project he was waiting. During the ad, the director said that the process of casting has already begun.

Lively as always, Shyamalan said that during the selection of cast, he may have found new stars in Hollywood. Counting for the public about its reaction to accept the project, he recalls that when talking on the phone with representatives of Paramount, said that this may be the new "Star Wars".

Even on "Avatar", Shyamalan has a brief interview in which the site ComingSoon.net proved to be somewhat difficult to hold the film to achieve a free censorship (or PG, in the United States), since he is accustomed to freedom to make films with high ranking indicative.

About what it called attention to the animated series, the filmmaker says that was the story. He account has been delighted with the characters, family relationships and themes present in the larger context of the plot - especially genocide.

Furthermore, the different cultures involved in the story, as Buddhism, Hinduism also captured the director, outside the fact contain a martial arts way more different, which Shyamalan said "not be bang-bang" and that involve forms of expression by computer graphics. Moreover, have a child as protagonist also very attracted the attention of the filmmaker.

The animated series tells the story of a boy of 12 years who was born with fantastic abilities and needs dominate them to bring peace to the world. The boy lives in a world divided into four nations, each represented by one element.

The Benders are people who have the power to manipulate the elements of their nation (manipulate the fire, water, land or air). However, each generation born a Bender who is able to handle all the elements, which won the designation of Avatar.

Shyamalan will act as producer, screenwriter and director of the film, which is scheduled to debut July 02, 2010.