Please, PLEASE don't fuck this up like Last Airbender. Because that movie was terrible.
HOW CAN YOU MAKE FIGHT SCENES THAT INVOLVE USING THE CLASSICAL ELEMENTS AGAINST THE OPPONENT BE THE MOST BORING THING EVER? HOW?
Easy, Hollywood's been doing it for ages...
Ugh, don't even bring that up... I brought it up months before the movie came out and it lead to a flame war.
It was like 6 or 7 months ago. I think it basically boiled down to three groups:
If the adaption HAD been good, it would have been less insulting. Instead, it was terrible... and it's STILL getting a sequel because the foreign gross was incredibly high. Personally, I'm just glad that M. Night is ether going to be removed from the project or at least tightly controlled, as he's finally lost his Protection from Editors status.
Yeah, but just how big of a fan would you call yourself? The guys and gals who do fan art, write fan fiction, go to conventions in costume... they put a lot of themselves into these series. These series matter to them. When they see someone do a half-assed attempt at re-creating their favorite series, while simultaneously removing the things that made it unique and special, they understandably get upset.
No, I don't, but I have many friends who do for other franchises (mainly Star Wars and Warhammer 40k). This is how they've explained it to me and I agree with their thinking.
Basically this. When an installment is bad and flops, it can kill a franchise. When a bad installment succeeds, it can take the franchise in a direction that alienates the original community that supported the product.
Star Wars is still here because somebody other than Lucas is helping write these days and has opened itself to other writers who are more than welcome to add tot he universe. Besides, I'd hardly call the prequels TERRIBLE movies.
I might have to hurt you.
I'd prefer that Hollywood would give the film/story a chance...
Well i was just answering why people can be mad from a logical perspective when crappy adaptations happen...
Granted, but it's still mostly about whiny kids with psychic powers destroying buildings.
I went to imdb and Google and find nothing on the announcement of a sequel to the Shammy movie; only people's predictions and talk of the sequel to the animated series, Legend of Korra. Source please.
You do appear to be right. I thought they were simply waiting for the next tax year to start before they announced it, but they may be holding off because one of the actors (kid who plays Sokka) is involved with the Twilight series and they need to see if they can get her to commit.
I never said it matters BECAUSE of those things. I said those things show it matters to them, which is why they get upset when bad adaptions come out.
And they still couldn't do that right.
Actually, last I heard they ordered a full 21 episode season, and also already greenlit a second season. Can't confirm though.
I haven't seen anything saying that all.
When people love a show or something like it a huge amount, they'll develop their own vision for it. What would they do if someone gave them creative control of it. This gives us crappy fanfiction and people with unrealistic expectations and unwillingness to compromise their vision of exactly how it should be. But I bet you already knew that... I just felt like typing.
Like I said, can't confirm. Heard it from a friend of a friend kind of thing. I trust them on it though. Partially out of naive hope, and partially because they're actually out there in the animation industry and thus have more connections than I do.
The way the creators talk about it in the interview in that same article seems to be at odds with that same number though.
