Shyamalan Casts Slumdog Star Dev Patel For Airbender

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It didn't take long for Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel to go Hollywood. M. Night Shyamalan has cast the 19-year-old actor for his supernatural martial-arts movie The Last Airbender, which begins filming in Greenland next month.

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