Mendelson's Memos: M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender gets a teaser...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender gets a teaser...

There is next to no footage in this one, but that's why they call it a teaser. I really ought to try and watch the three seasons of the original cartoon sometime in the next year. I hear it's terrific and I'm usually a sucker for anything that Andrea Romano does voice casting for. The film comes out on July 2nd, 2010, so it has more than a year to explain away the controversy involving the 'whitewashing' of its cast (ie - casting white actors to play Asian heroes). Granted, Mark Wahlberg aside, M. Night's casting is second to none, but it almost seems like the producers went out of their way to inflame racial animosity and/or piss off the hardcore fan base that this film will need to survive. We'll see...

Scott Mendelson

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Shyamalan HATERS are again at hard work to sabotage his career! 'Whitewashing' this time is just another trick they've come up to derail potentially a big winner of a movie for Shyamalan. Entire brigades of organized-criminals have come after Shyamalan to disrupt any movie that he’s trying to make next. Like his last three movies since ‘Signs’ and that cover story of him being ‘The Next Speilberg’, it all started downhill thereafter with how these haters trash him with such clinical negative publicity and to the extent that reviews are ‘sponsored’ bad to plow down anything that Shyamalan is trying to construct for himself. This is not to say that Shyamlan didn’t deserve some of the spanking that he reserved for himself but the ‘Spielberg people’ are just slaughtering him since that cover story and it is such a pity to see Night Shyamalan under such a hammer for no apparent fault of his own.; July 20, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Scott Mendelson said...: You're right! I do hate M. Night Shyamalan after all. Thank you for making me realize this after all these years.

http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-i-still-love-m-night-shyamalan.html

http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2008/06/boy-am-i-gonna-look-stupid-if-happening.html; July 21, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Scott Mendelson said...: You're right! I do hate M. Night Shyamalan after all. Thank you for making me realize this after all these years.

http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-i-still-love-m-night-shyamalan.html

http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2008/06/boy-am-i-gonna-look-stupid-if-happening.html; May 13, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Shyamalan HATERS are again at hard work to sabotage his career! 'Whitewashing' this time is just another trick they've come up to derail potentially a big winner of a movie for Shyamalan. Entire brigades of organized-criminals have come after Shyamalan to disrupt any movie that he’s trying to make next. Like his last three movies since ‘Signs’ and that cover story of him being ‘The Next Speilberg’, it all started downhill thereafter with how these haters trash him with such clinical negative publicity and to the extent that reviews are ‘sponsored’ bad to plow down anything that Shyamalan is trying to construct for himself. This is not to say that Shyamlan didn’t deserve some of the spanking that he reserved for himself but the ‘Spielberg people’ are just slaughtering him since that cover story and it is such a pity to see Night Shyamalan under such a hammer for no apparent fault of his own.; May 13, 2011 at 10:42 AM