I don’t know whether this is scary or awesome, folks–when I first heard there was going to be an Avatar movie I was actually pretty excited.  I’d enjoyed the show quite a bit, and found it had a lot of solid writing to it, especially for a show geared more toward teenagers.

But then I found out that M. Night Shyamalan was handling the directing for it, and my jaw just dropped.  This guy’s career had been on a steady decline pretty much since his first movie showed up–every Shyamalan movie gets progressively, incrementally, worse than the one before it–and to hand him a property like this strikes me in the same amused yet horrified fashion that handing a chimp a gun strikes me.  I mean, come on!  You just don’t DO that sort of thing!

But stills are emerging, and the trailer’s pretty awesome in its own right, but the question of the day is, can Shyamalan break his own chain of disastrous movies to turn out another Sixth Sense?  Or will a terrific property be ruined in the process?