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Jackson Rathbone hit the MTV Movie Awards red carpet sunday night and a new clip from his other movie The Last Airbender, made it’s debut. The Twilight star, who looked fab in his bright blue jacket, is gearing up to promote to big summer flicks he’s in: Eclipse, which is out June 30th and Airbender which hits theaters on July 2nd. I say – It’s about time we had some more Jackson goodness!

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The trend continues. The live action big screen adaptation of Nickelodeon’s super successful animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender will be released in 3D this summer.

The Last Airbender, directed by M. Night Shymalan and starring Jackson Rathbone, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel and Noah Ringer will switch from 2D film to 3D and still hit theaters July 2nd. Check out the latest trailer above.

A new photo of Jackson Rathbone as Sokka from the film The Last Airbender, has surfaced. The actor is shown (in what I believe to be) the South Pole with a child from his tribe.

The summer will be a great time for Jackson fans. His two movies, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opens June 30th and the following week, The Last Airbender hits theaters, July 2nd.

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Nickelodeon’s incredibly popular animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is headed to the big screen with director M. Night Shymalan overseeing the live action film. Jackson Rathbone has left his Twilight character of Jasper Hale behind and plays Sokka, the wisecracking, boomerang-throwing Southern water tribe teen who, along with his sister Katara (Nicola Peltz) help airbender Aang (Noah Ringer) discover his true destiny and restore balance to the world. After casting controversy, Dev Patel has the role of Prince Zuko of the Fire nation and Jesse McCartney is not the banished prince.

The Last Airbender will hit theaters July 2nd, 2010.

The Last Airbender, the live action version of Nickelodeon’s popular animated show, Avatar, isn’t due until July but we are finally getting a few more set photos. The pics were in Empire magazine and our friends at BackseatCuddler.com have them for us to take a peek at. No shots still of Jackson Rathbone as Sokka or Dev Patel as Prince Zuko (there is one shot of Dev on the movie’s imdb page here.) Guess we will have to wait until the full trailer is released in February.

I am looking forward to this. The series was great and I have high hopes that M Night Shyamalan does craft a great film from the material.

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon theatrical release of November 20th is right around the corner but for actor Jackson Rathbone, it doesn’t mean he will be slowing down. Not only is he gearing up for the crazy promotional schedule of New Moon, he is finishing work on the third film of the franchise Eclipse, and he is starting work on the indie flick Girlfriend, which he will also produce. All that back and forth between characters could be a problem for some actors, but not Rathbone.

“The process of going through the works; getting makeup, getting hair and all that, you have enough time to kind of contemplate your character. And I always put a lot of work into the way my characters move and the way they speak and the way they relate to others around them. It’s just the simple things. I like the subtle nuances that really kind of establish a character and how a character grows throughout a story.”

He also finished filming The Last Airbender with Dev Patel and directed by M Night Shymalan and he is about to embark on a tour with his band 100 Monkeys. While he can’t officially confirm it yet, Breaking Dawn should start filming in February or March so Jackson still has quite a bit of work on his plate for a long while yet.

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Jackson Rathbone is most famous for his role as Jasper Hale in ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon’ movies, but he is also a working musician touring and recording with Ben Johnson, Ben Graupner and Jared Anderson and their band 100 Monkeys. The guys of 100 Monkeys recently gave an interview to Starshine Magazine about their music and touring and what it’s like having fans of ‘Twilight’ show up.

How has “Twilight” mania affected the band’s popularity?

Jackson: It’s definitely gotten us some attention, but I think the main thing is our lives shows. People get to –

Jared: – escape into a fun land. Enjoy good music.

Jackson: Yeah, we like to have a good time. That’s what we’re always trying to do – play music for as many people as possible.

Jared: Hopefully, they come in ready to rock out and have some fun. That’s all you can expect.

Ben G: If you scream loud enough, we’ll make up a song that you decide what it’s called. Things like guitar picks and sweat.

The group really has a unique point of view when making music – using improv to jump start their creative spark. Most bands are too self-conscienous and image oriented to do spontaneous, off-the-cuff music.

Rathbone also hints about ‘New Moon’ saying it’s going to be ‘raging’ and he also gives a brief mention to ‘The Last Airbender’ he just finshed with M. Night Shyamalan calling it ‘epic’ and ‘beautiful.’ I absolutely love watching Jackson and can’t wait for his part to be expanded in the Twilight series. I am also looking forward to his turn as Sokka in ‘The Last Airbender.’  It sounds like it’s gonna be a fantastic live-action version of the animated series.

Check out the band’s official page for tour dates and music info here.

Jackson Rathbone has quite a bit going on currently. If you can’t wait till November to see him reprise his role as Jasper in ‘New Moon’  then check out wednesday night on CBS’s ‘Criminal Minds.’  He’s also flying back and forth from Vancouver to Philadelphia while working on ‘The Last Airbender’ with M. Night Shyamalan. His band 100 Monkeys is making appearances (two in Vancouver in April) and around California. Check out his fansite Jackson Rathbone Online and his band’s Myspace Page 

He’s in a bunch of movies due out this year and I can’t wait to see him as Sokka in ‘The Last Airbender’ – loved the show on Nickelodeon. For my Rathbone fix – I’m gonna check him out wednesday, 4/8 at 9pm on Criminal Minds.

Citing his busy touring schedule, Jesse McCartney has dropped out of M. Night Shyamalan’s big screen, live action movie of The Last Airbender and will not be playing the Fire Nation’s Prince Zuko. According to Shyamalan, McCartney cannot make time to begin martial arts training, however McCartney has said he already is training.

“Jesse had tour dates that conflicted with a boot camp I always hold on my films, and where the actors here have to train for martial arts,” Shyamalan said.

Did the controversy of all white actors win out? Shyamalan has now cast Dev Patel, of Slumdog Millionaire to play the part. Patel will do a great job, no doubt, but the excuse that McCartney can’t make the boot camp seems weak. Jackson Rathbone has cleared time from his New Moon filming for it, so I’ve got to wonder. Regardless, I loved the Nickelodeon series, so I’ve got high hopes for this Avatar film. Shyamalan, do it right!

With controversy swirling, M. Night Shyamalan has cast Jesse McCartney as Prince Zuko in The Last Airbender. The live action film version of Nickelodeon’s super successful animated show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, is receiving it’s share of criticism due to the all white cast. McCartney had this to say:

“There’s a lot of hard-core fans out there [who] probably know more about it…I’m still learning. This is M. Night’s vision and this is what he wants. To all the fans, I can tell you I’m putting my best foot forward.” He further adds, “I’ve been in kung-fu training for the last month and half-learning all the moves. I’m looking forward to it.”

The rest of the confirmed cast: Noah Ringer as Aang, Jackson Rathbone (he was Jasper in Twilight) as Sokka and Nicola Peltz as Katara.

The uproar is caused by many fans who believe asians actors should be cast as the lead characters. The show itself pulls many different styles of martials arts as inspirations for the movements of ‘bending’ (the ability to manipulate the natural elements.) There is also a distinct anime style to the drawing of the series and of course, asian mythology used thru the show. But were the characters meant to be specifically any particular ethnic group? The movie is due out sometime in 2010.

Jackson Rathbone cast as ‘Sokka’

Nicola Peltz cast as ‘Katara’

Let’s hear from you – what do you think?