Avatar Movie Casting - Let's Take Action

[here_be_dragons]

H/T Hoyden About TownI know that several of you have seen the Nickelodeon show "Avatar: The Last Airbender." For those who haven't, it's a really charming and well-done cartoon/anime series based on Asian and Inuit legends. I was initially happy to hear that it's being made into a live-action film, until I learned that they've cast the main

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[here_be_dragons]

ARCK!!!!!! I didn't know who Jesse McCartney is, so I googled him. HE wants to play Zuko? I get that he *wants* the part. That's lovely, and he's more than welcome to dress up as Zuko and recite lines in front of the mirror at home to his heart's content. But actually play him in the film? Please no.

I've never seen any of Shyamalan's films, so I have nothing to compare, but doesn't he mostly do creepy horror things? That seems like an odd choice.

[here_be_dragons]

Oh, I didn't know he was the one who did "Sixth Sense." I did see that film, and liked it. But yeah, my impression of his films is that there's all this BIG TALK about the creepy. Which, sometimes, destroys the creepy. Also, I don't particularly want "Avatar" to be creepy. Eh. Chances are I won't go to see the film anyway, if they stick with their craptastic casting choices, so it doesn't really matter. *sigh*

[synergy]

Unless he's saying different things to different people, actually he gets angry when people associate him with "the twist" just because the first movie everyone knew of his had the Bruce Willis twist. His latter movies were supposed to be more supernatural and fantasy than creepy horror. Probably why so many people keep saying it sucks when they go in expecting it to be creepy horror with a twist and that hasn't really happened since "The Sixth Sense."