What's it about? M. Night Shyamalan continued his downwards career trajectory with The Last Airbender, an adaptation of the hugely popular Nickelodeon cartoon series in which the four nations of Earth, Water, Air and Fire are plunged into a devastating war. Only a young boy known as the Avatar can restore order to the realm, but not before overcoming a number of tiresome and predictable movie tropes... Why was it doomed to fail? Shyamalan might be the first person you'd think of blaming for the godawful mess that was The Last Airbender, but according to a member of the production staff the final cut barely resembled his original screenplay, so the chances are it was every bit as much the fault of the studio's. "The producers, who are actually in charge of at least 80% of production including casting. not so much. They clearly never bothered to watch the show, nor had the ghostwriter who did the final screenplay," said the anonymous whistleblower when discussing their adherence to the source material, summing up the production as a "fustercluck".
