Comments on: Dev Patel joins Avatar: The Last Airbender

By: deade

deade — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:49:44 +0000

Rodney, I bet you’re not a big fan nor watching full 3 seasons animated Avatar The Last Airbender, the animation series is a big hit. After watching full 3 season the animated series(again) and then watching the live action trailer, like hell I’m spending money to watch the movie(although the cgi is kaboom). Dev Patel is more suited to sooka. I think Syamalan just want to gain profit from the successful animated series, he does’t even care about the fan.(just like James Wong: Dragonball Evolution)
the casting is sooo wrong :P

#kayur,imamac,eRulasto, Betty :completely agree with u all

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:34:10 +0000

In reply to Samantha.

Because clearly an adult TEN YEARS older than Patel should play this.

You might want to think this through a little more.

And give Patel a personal trainer for 3 weeks and he can be just as fit looking.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:32:26 +0000

I think that the casting for Zuko could have done alot better than Dev Patel. I mean when we look at Zuko, we see a eastern looking character, with a nice toned body, who’s had to work his way up, and is strong a fierce. Dev Patel isn’t any of this. The actor Rain from Ninja Assasins could play this part perfectly. He fits the category perfect. Strong, well toned, eastern, and fierce. I mean he was so good in Ninja Assasin

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:32:18 +0000

In reply to Samantha. Patel is still young, while Rain is a full grown adult and not at all like the character you suggest he would be perfect to play. Rain is not perfect for "every" role.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:30:20 +0000

In reply to mom2me. i agree with you, Rain would be the perfect actor for this. I mean he was so fierce and hot looking and he has the muscle to play as Zuko, Dev Patel doesn't

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:24:30 +0000

In reply to imamac. I agree that the actors should at least have some resemblance to their character, but as for acting i feel differently. Dev Patel's role in Skins was to be goofy, but he is an actor. And so he has to adapt to any personality of a character.

By: mom2me

mom2me — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:51:34 +0000

I loved the cartoon. How could they get the casting of this movie sooooooo wrong? The person who would be a perfect Zuko would be Rain, the asian pop star who played in speedracer. Katara should be at least someone of color. What’s the deal with all the white face actors?

By: Natalia

Natalia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:45:32 +0000

I heard that Seychelle Gabriel is playing Princess Yue. I hope its true because she would be the best person casted for a role in the whole cast so far. I think Dev should be sokka not zuko.

By: Jaimee

Jaimee — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:10:44 +0000

In reply to Kayur. completely agree with u

By: Jaimee

Jaimee — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:09:33 +0000

ok 1st, dev patel is a great actor, but he looks nothing like zuko!! i think dante basco (the actual voice of zuko) would actually do a pretty good job. hes filipino but hes been doing a good job with acting like other asians

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:15:36 +0000

In reply to bigsampson.

To me, how much the actors look like their characters is only a small part of the big picture. As long as they can represent the characters correctly, I’m sure the movie will go smoothly, and most everybody will be happy.

And they will most likely darken Jackson’s and Nicola’s hair. I’m pretty sure people would throw fits if they didn’t.

By: imamac

imamac — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:56:28 +0000

In reply to Jignesh. If my memory serves me correctly, Sokka and Katara have blue eyes.