USA Today has some exclusive pics from the live-action adaptation of “The Last Airbender”, based on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. You can check the pics out of Noah Ringer as Aang and Dev Patel as Zuko below.
The film is set in a fantasy world where the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire can be controlled through martial arts called bending, and the ruthless flame-manipulating Fire Nation is waging war to control the other nations of the world. At the same time a young boy named Aang, the last surviving wind manipulator or Airbender and is also the Avatar, the physical incarnation of the world itself who possesses the ability to manipulate all four elements, is on a quest to stop the Firebenders and save the world, with his friends Katara, a water-manipulating Waterbender from the South Pole, and her brother Sokka. But the skilled and vicious Prince Zuko, the banished Prince of the Fire Nation, is on the trail of the Avatar, seeking to regain his lost honor by capturing him.
“The Last Airbender” is scheduled to hit theaters July 2nd, 2010.
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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: USA Today)
I am absolutely OUTRAGED…. ZUKO DOESN’T HAVE HIS SCAR!!! THAT LIKE TAKES AWAY HALF THE PLOT FOR ZUKO’S CHARACTER IN THE FILMS WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY TAKE AWAY ONE OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calm down, he does have a scar, you just can’t really see it this pic. They apparently toned it down, not sure why, maybe to try and make it look more realistic (uumm, they failed) but they took away the traditional Fire Nation topknot and I’m sad.
And this Noah Ringer kid doesn’t look quite right, Aang is supposed to be really skinny, and there should be some orange in the costume, he should look like a shoalin monk.