"Avatar the Last Airbender" Live-Action Movie in 2010; Shyamalan Interviewed

Variety is reporting a July 2, 2010 release date for the first movie in a planned live-action feature film trilogy based on Nickelodeon's Avatar the Last Airbender. The movies will be directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and will drop "Avatar" and merely go by "The Last Airbender" to avoid confusion with the James Cameron movie project Avatar, which is scheduled for release on December 18, 2009.