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The Last Airbender (2010) More at IMDbPro »

• The film was originally titled "Avatar: the Last Airbender", after the TV show it was based on. However, James Cameron and 20th Century Fox had already registered the film title "Avatar", so the word was dropped from the title to avoid confusion.
  
  
• Jesse McCartney was originally cast to play Zuko, but was replaced with Dev Patel due to scheduling conflicts. Even after this casting change, the film remains the subject of controversy and protest due to the casting decision of all four lead roles, namely choosing largely Caucasian actors when the characters are more Asian and Native American ethnicity in the original series.
  
  
• This is the first adaptation that M. Night Shyamalan directed.
  
  

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