Two new stills of Jackson Rathbone in The Last Airbender.

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Some scans of Jackson Rathbone (aka Jasper Hale) as Sokka in The Last Airbender Movie Novelization.

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The latest Last Airbender poster in French!

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This is not an officially released still, but it was uploaded on the official film website (go check the Wallpapers to see him). This is why you can see bits of the website right next to Jackson.

He looks ferocious, don’t you think? Yummy! He can bend my air anytime!!! Ooops, daydreaming again…

This is the official new Last Airbender trailer (#4) with Jackson Rathbone. From Paramount and in 3D! Looks pretty cool!

Just  imagine the visual on this one – Jasper Cullen action figure vs Sokka toy guy.  Vamp vs… water guy.
“Who would win? I don’t know,” Jackson Rathbone said. “I kind of want to stay out of that one. I’m not really a betting man. … I’ll be Switzerland.”

Here is the full article and interview from MTV’s Splashpage:
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“I think it’s a good movie for your girlfriend too (Laughs). Make her hold you close, that’s always right with a horror film.”

From MovieWeb, an interview with Jackson Rathbone about Eclipse, Dread, Last Airbender and directing! Compares Eclipse and Dread characters.

You’ve done a few horror films in the past, so what was it like to get a script for a Clive Barker adaptation? What were your original thoughts on the script when you first read it?

Jackson Rathbone: Well, before I even read it, before I even knew it was a Clive Barker adaptation, I was really excited about it. Then I read it and I was blown away, to be honest. It’s a much more humanized version of that kind of dark world that Clive is famous for creating. Once I read it, I was compelled to do the project, especially since I made a friend of mine read it, and the ending kind of made him a little bit sick, which is awesome, I think.

That’s a nice test, yeah. I really loved the whole look of the film and I read that you guys shot in Boston and in England. Can you talk a bit about some of these locations you guys found in this film, like Quaid’s house? I thought it was wonderful and added a really interesting element to the film.

Jackson Rathbone: Actually, we built that set. We had some incredible artists over there and set designers who built his house from scratch inside of a building. We were at this sort of abandoned campus. It used to be a college but it is no longer in operation. We pretty much filmed the entire movie, every scene, in different places around the campus. We were in basements if we needed it dark, we filmed the club scene there. It was pretty cool to be able to do a multi-locational film all in one place. Our production designers were able to figure it out and it was really cool, man. I was five minutes away from the set and it was no problem.

I read that you guys only had 28 days to shoot this. Was that kind of hectic at all or did it flow nicely?

Read all Jackson’s comments here

In the “for what it’s worth” department, MTV is throwing out the possibility of M Night Shyamalan directing Breaking Dawn, based on his comments at the Kid’s Choice Awards.  Shyamalan is directing Jackson Rathbone in “The Last Airbender”, which comes out in June, at the same time as Eclipse.  Who knows if he was serious or if it was just the polite thing to say when someone asks if you want to direct something.

Summit Entertainment is clearly gearing up to get moving on “Breaking Dawn,” the final entry in the “Twilight” (which still may or may not be released in two parts). There was a lot of talk over the last week or two about potential directors, with the names Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, Bill Condon and Stephen Daldry all coming up as short-list possibilities. I put those options to a vote last week: Coppola got 40%, Van Sant got 27%, Condon got 18% and Daldry got 15%. So no clear majority.

Well I’m here today to make things even more confusing. This isn’t an official possibility on the table for Summit — as far as we know — but a noteworthy filmmaker professed his love for Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series in a chat on the Kid’s Choice Awards red carpet over the weekend: M. Night Shyamalan.

“I would’ve loved to be– I love the series, and Catherine [Hardwicke's] movie, it was one of my favorite movies of that year,” he said. “Really, I thought tonally, it was a perfect movie. I called her up after I saw ‘Twilight’ and was like ‘That was amazing.’ So I’m a big fan.”

Shyamalan just recently worked with “Twilight” star Jackson Rathbone on “The Last Airbender,” a live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese anime series “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” That movie hits theaters this summer, on July 2. Shyamalan is known for frequently screwing with viewers’ heads in hits like “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable”; “Airbender” is a first for him, a big-budget, studio adaptation.

My own opinions of him as a filmmaker are mixed, but I’ve never claimed to be a “Twilight” expert. So I want to hear from you. Do you think Shyamalan is a good person for Summit to consider in weighing possible “Breaking Dawn” directors? Do you agree with his assessment of “Twilight” as “tonally” perfect? Would you pick him over the other directors whom we know are in the running?

Some never seen footage in this Japanese trailer for the Last Airbender, but not a lot of Jackson Rathbone beyond quick glimpses.

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