With the fantasy adventure film "The Last Airbender" earning negative reviews from critics five years ago, its acclaimed director M. Night Shyamalan must have been weary of puns as he recently spoke up to defend the much-despised film. Meanwhile, Shyamalan plans to create a sequel for the hit movie "Unbreakable" through a TV series.
Director M. Night Shyamalan's 2010 film "The Last Airbender" received a negative critical response from both fans and critics, unlike its TV series version from Nickelodeon, which has become a hit. While it has been five years ago since that happened, the director recently spoke up to defend the thrashed film and even dragged Megan Fox on top of it.
In an interview with IGN, M. Night Shyamalan correlated the "Transformers" film to make his point. "It's really weird because on the show the average age was, like, nine-years-old," he said. "You could make it one of two ways: you could make it for that same audience, which is what I did, for nine and 10-year-olds, or you could do the Transformers version and have Megan Fox," exclaimed the famed director.
Apparently, what Shyamalan implied is that people didn't like "The Last Airbender" because it was a kid's movie and it wasn't made as an adult blockbuster, which contains more sex appeal, Movie Pilot notes.
When asked for a comment about Shyamalan's defense, actress Megan Fox made a not so subtle comeback. "Bitch, what do I have to do with your s****y movie?," Fox said in an interview.
Meanwhile, Shyamalan plans to make a sequel for his 2000 superhero drama film "Unbreakable" via a TV series. During the promotion of his new TV show "Wayward Pines" for FOX, to which he serves as an executive producer, the director told IGN he would love to continue the story.
"Could you do a six-episode Unbreakable series on Netflix or HBO? Yeah! That's cool," he mused. "Unbreakable" received a mixed of positive and negative critical responses. It is Shyamalan's follow up for his 1999 hit "The Sixth Sense."
With M. Night Shyamalan's statement about "The Last Airbender," do you think his defense made a lot of sense? Or he can't just accept the total defeat? Sound off your comments below.
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