If you know me, you know that one of my favorite directors is M. Night Shyamalan. Unlike many people, I’ve loved all of his movies with the one exception of The Happening. The rest, though, I love each for many reasons. In a new behind the scenes video for The Last Airbender, which is the first of a trilogy based on the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, he mentions that he had been looking to find an epic series that he could direct. He mentioned looking at Harry Potter, which is well known, and also The Chronicles of Narnia.
It makes me wonder what a Narnia film directed by M. Night Shyamalan would look like. He is a very visual director and he’s a great director with children. We can only imagine what it would have been like. Not to mention that the composer he works with, James Newton Howard, is a musical genious. His score for Narnia would be epic and magical. Now he is focused on The Last Airbender trilogy of films as well as other original projects, so it’s unlikely that we’ll see him direct any of the future Narnia movies.
