The Last Airbender (2010) on Netflix
PG20101h 43mActionAdventureFamily
Sokka and Katara, siblings of the Southern Water Tribe, discover a twelve-year-old boy named Aang inside an iceberg. He is the Avatar, the only person who can bend all four elements.
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Plot summary
The world holds four nations, each bending one element: air, water, earth, and fire. A century ago the Fire Nation began a war to conquer the rest, and the Avatar, the one person who can bend all four, vanished. Sokka and Katara of the Southern Water Tribe find a twelve-year-old boy named Aang inside an iceberg; he is the Avatar, the last of the Air Nomads. Fire Lord Ozai's exiled son Prince Zuko and Commander Zhao both hunt him. Aang knows only airbending, so he travels with Katara and Sokka toward the Northern Water Tribe to learn waterbending from its masters.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Airbender (2010)
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- The Last Airbender swept the 31st Golden Raspberry Awards with five wins, including Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay for M. Night Shyamalan, Worst Supporting Actor for Jackson Rathbone, and a special award for "Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3D."
- Dev Patel replaced Jesse McCartney as Prince Zuko in February 2009 after McCartney's tour dates conflicted with the cast's martial arts boot camp, though McCartney later claimed producers replaced him for political reasons shortly before filming began.
- The casting of white actors in the Asian and Amerindian-influenced Avatar universe sparked accusations of racism, a letter-writing campaign, and boycott calls from fans and the Media Action Network for Asian-Americans.
- The film's poor critical and financial reception caused the studio to cancel the planned trilogy, and a live-action television adaptation produced by Netflix premiered fourteen years later to an improved reception.
- Shyamalan chose Stereo D LLC, the company that worked on James Cameron's Avatar, for the conversion. The conversion cost between $5 million and $10 million, on top of the reported $100 million already spent on the film.
- The production team found the pagoda on Mount Penn in Reading, Pennsylvania, which served as an ancient temple; crews made road improvements and buried electrical lines surrounding the structure.
