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‘Slumdog’ star joins Shyamalan’s ‘Airbender’
You just knew ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was going to make a star out of Dev Patel. Ă‚ The young actor has signed onto M. Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of ‘The Last Airbender’ based on the Avatar TV series. Ă‚ Production begins in Greenland next month.
Patel joins a cast made up of relatively uknown actors such as Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, and Jessica Jade Andres.
Ringer is a complete unknown who was tapped for the title role off an Internet audition. Patel, meanwhile, steps into a role that Jesse McCartneyĂ‚ had all but locked up until the actor’s second career as a musician got in the way.
“Jesse had tour dates that conflicted with a boot camp I always hold on my films, and where the actors here have to train for martial arts,” Shyamalan said.
Patel was “already one of the guys I was interested in. Then I saw ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ and the kid just grew in my eyes,” he said.
Paramount is set to release “Airbender on July 2, 2010. Ă‚ Shyamalan said he is planning a three-picture story arc.
Source: Variety
I’m seriously giddy as a school girl in a pillow fight about this. I really loved the animated series. I just hope they do it some justice and it doesn’t get all Shyama-fuck’n-weird for no reason other than to make it Shyama-fuck’n-weird………….asssss that guy tends to do.
M. Night will create another masterpiece…can’t wait…..