It seems I'm a bit late, but here you all go anyways;

~New Last Airbender pics: [link]

~Promo Images: [link]

And now an excerpt from a very FACEPALM interview iF Magazine did with Shyamalan about the movie

"iF: Are you going to push for the political tone in this film as we’ve seen in your other films?

SHYAMALAN: Well, there is a lot in the mythology. What I did was remove anything that was too slap-sticky and cheesy -- the stuff that was there for the very little kids, but wouldn’t work in a live action feature like the fart jokes. I grounded the thing a little more. I grounded Katara’s brother for example [played by Jackson Rathbone] and it brought a great new overall tone to the whole movie. But the political tone is for sure intact and the one about a culture who is in an industrial revolution and use their way in their belief system and then decide “we don’t need to follow the old way of thinking, the old way of seeing God”. And the movie focuses on a higher power and the spirit world...
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It appears Sokka's character was too filler-y for Shyamalan, and much of the mythology in the show was too 'slap-sticky and cheesy -- like fart jokes' until Shyamalan purified it with his genius.

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And now, I've written a song for you all that goes a little something like this :

Do your loopies hang low,
do they wobble do they flow
can you tie 'em in a knot?
can you tie 'em in a bow?
can you throw 'em over your shoulder like a continental soldier
DO YOUR LOOPIES
HANG
LOW.

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