Comments on: Slumdog Millionaire Star Cast In The Last Airbender

By: Mata

Mata — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:58:32 +0000

Agreed, I reckon he would have made a much better Sokka.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:36:11 +0000

I think They SHOULD NOT have Dev Patel play Zuko…they should get an actor who looks more like him…n hotter… sorry Dev Patel but u jst dont cut the list to playing zuko..FIND SOME ONE BETTER….HE NEEDS TO B REPLACED.e

By: watdafoxx

watdafoxx — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:51:43 +0000

i agree with JT, stephanie and gb, Dante Basco wouldve been my first choice for Zuko. First of all, he already does the voice in the series, secondly, we know he can play that tortured, conflicted, angry kid well.. and he can do the martial arts stuff.. “rufio! rufio! ru-fi-oooo!!” ;p

By: angel

angel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:27:44 +0000

hey guys! i’m a filipino and i was just wondering why did shyamalan chose dev patel? sorry for patel’s fans out there. I mean he’s really a good actor but to play the role of zuko? are you for real? he doesn’t look like zuko anyway. plus zuko is not tanned in anime. a japanese would really fit for that. i really like zuko and they are murdering his role for the movie. that aang kid is great,katara? 50:50. sokka? 80 percent ok. anyway, they already made the casting. i was hoping that in the book 2, they should find a great cast to play toph, i really love her character. hoping too they would not torture her role.

By: Gambit

Gambit — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:45:46 +0000

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By: gb

gb — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:57:19 +0000

First things first, I love the avatar series!! Ok ok yeah I am an adult female. Seriously! It’s great! Now the bad news really M. Night Shyamalan?? They couldn’t find anyone else more capable? I hope they won’t have to wear foil on their heads.I was reading everyones comments and I must say I agree. This was a perfect time to use an all asian cast!! I mean come on, have these people seen the anime?? I’m not happy with the choice for Zuko’s charecter? I don’t know that Dev Patel can pull it off. What was wrong with Dante Basco? The other issue is that what at least drew me to the series was the dialog!! Very witty, Sokka was great I don’t know, as much thought and care that went into the anime, I just don’t know! Let’s hope for the best.

By: decoy335

decoy335 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:42:26 +0000

Hmm, hes better jessie macartney. im still meh on it. This movie will fail anyway. I guess ill see it for the lols.

By: Chris & Heidi

Chris & Heidi — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:31:51 +0000

I meant tipsycd@yahoo.com

By: Chris & Heidi

Chris & Heidi — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:29:39 +0000

While i respect dev patel for his role in slumdog miilionaire it is plainly obvious that he was the incorrect choince for the recast of zuko in the upcoming avatar movie. Even with lots of makeup and hair alteration his height age and figure would not allow him to fufill the role properely. His nationality and trademark accent is not in line with the zuko character presented in the animated series. Because the character of zuko plays one of the most important roles in the avatar series the castes actor should be chosen more carefully and espcially not as the result of democratic action on behave of stiludios concerned with racial representation in the movies. M. Night should avod compromising the quality of his artistic vision for a unique fan base or studio representation and needs to focus n the bigger picture of what could becom epic film. M night if you have any queaions about casting reach us at tipsycs@yahoo.com.

By: marian

marian — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:30:46 +0000

asi not asian opps sorry

By: marian

marian — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:29:28 +0000

Am I the only person happy that jesse macartney wont be able to butcher the role of Zuko and that the part will be going to a talented asian actor maybe the wrong part of asian but it is still a step in the right direction.

By: Jusebox

Jusebox — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:04:38 +0000

Avatar is such a visual series with a huge fan base- I can’t believe they would play in to the mainstream teenybopper commercialism and fill this movie with such a cast. I am a white adult with an eleven year old son with whom I love to have weekend long avatar marathons (needless to say we are huge fans) I am curious about the lead role- Noah Ringer is an unknown but he will be hairless and has martial arts abilities- so maybe. But the remaining cast is ridiculous. Zuko’s features are a part of his character- moody, sharp featured, very Asian- the bubbly round features of Dev Patel will do nothing for this character.Are they going to use Dante Basco’s voice? They really, really got nothing. The water tribe seems very Native American to me, but the kids they have as Sokka and Katara look like they came straight out of a GAP ad. I was really disappointed when I heard M.Night Shyamalan was doing this- he has a knack for taking things with a lot of potential and just flubbing the hell out of them.The bad thing is- there were a lot of questions left unanswered at the end of the NICK series that I have heard will be answered within the movies.I have also read the parts about it taking six years to finish the trilogy(?) because Shyamalan was writing them as he went. Writing what? He already has a perfect, extremely detailed story line- he just has to script it- this cannot take six years to do—unless he plans on using his trademark flub pen.

By: avid avatar kid

avid avatar kid — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:24:22 +0000

casting sucks, zuko deserves better than this

By: avatard

avatard — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:33:49 +0000

Zuko has hair in the movie… FAIL!

By: Timeless14

Timeless14 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:37:37 +0000

*sigh* this is gonna be… who knows. i mean seriously i can’t believe they even considered mcCartney – sorry but the guy’s white – you see that’s not gonna work. you gotta cast people that at least kinda look like the characters. and then there’s dave patel… guy can act but he’s middle eastern. couldn’t they get a cool chinese guy who can act? japanese, korean, whatever i don’t care.

By: stefanie

stefanie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:12:11 +0000

i just don’t get why they didn’t use the actor who voices zuko..i mean i get that he is in his early 30’s but he looks young and is the voice of zuko.they didn’t even get the burn right on the eye of dev patel.whom ever is doing make-up needs to fix it!
cooome on bring in dante basco!!!!

im curious to see how it all unfolds though. i’ll still see it only cause i know the creators are working with m.night shyamalan..so that kinda puts me at ease. i love the avatar and i hope that it turns out good.

By: kaiz

kaiz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:45:01 +0000

dont think dev patel will be that good as zuko, really shud have had some of an chinese or japanese country in order to play him as they could do make it more interesting. his voice could cause a problem, although would say he is better choice than jesse mcartney, just hope they dont ruin it like how dragonball z was. hope m night can make it good, but if it aint to late bring in some people of east asian descent to do some of those kung fu type moves.

By: Kouhei

Kouhei — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:18:43 +0000

Well, Hollywood is always being really racist to us asians anyway. I mean look what they did to Dragonball Z. There really should be, honest to god, more Asian actors, because, hello? Isn’t this an Asian story? Despite that, I actually really like that Dev Patel is Prince Zuko. He is a really good actor and he seems to fit the part. And I’m really curious to see how this will turn out. This is actually a favorite of mine and I wonder just how this trilogy will turn out with an extreme and distinct lack of Asians.

By: MaKinzi

MaKinzi — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:57:17 +0000

Okay, so I’m really excited about this movie. Dev, I agree with most of the commeners, should be played as Sukko. He’s got the humor, and the looks. But Zuko? Seriously? They should have stuck with the asian community. Or like Lil’s comment above, be japaneese. Someone like Jin Akanaishi, now there’d be a suiteable Zuko.
I’m 99.99999 percent sure that Zuko is half of the viewers favorite. As it is mine. But, how are they going to do his hair? What if they continue it all the way to the third movie? Are they going to make his hair corectly? Hmmph.
Oh well. I’m just happy that there is going to be a movie. And I can not wait for it to come out. My plan is to dress up as Katara or Aang

By: iLAUGHatTHIS

iLAUGHatTHIS — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:11:26 +0000

I HOPE!! those pale actor get tanned before shooting ahahaha!