{"id":3506,"date":"2009-04-02T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:22:38","slug":"the-last-airbender-begins-shooting-today-in-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/02\/the-last-airbender-begins-shooting-today-in-reading-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST AIRBENDER Begins Shooting Today In Reading, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/mnightshyamalan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3504\" title=\"mnightshyamalan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/mnightshyamalan-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"mnightshyamalan\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Cameras begin rolling today, weather permitting, on M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s live-action animae adaptation <strong>The Last Airbender<\/strong> on location in Reading, Pennsylvania. Roughly an hour north of the director&#8217;s hometown and favorite shooting location Philadelphia, Shyamalan will be making use of a local landmark called <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250604100954\/https:\/\/www.readingpagoda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pagoda<\/a> on top of Mount Penn as an exterior for his upcoming film.<\/p>\n<p>The Pagoda will be used as an ancient temple in the film.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190725141319\/http:\/\/www2.readingeagle.com\/article.aspx?id=131944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reading Eagle<\/a>, locations scouts for the film were canvassing the area when their eyes were caught by the Pagoda. Once it was decided to use the location, a film company crew has spent the last several weeks making improvements to the road that accesses the site as well as burying electrical lines around the building.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/readingpapagoda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3510\" title=\"readingpapagoda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/readingpapagoda-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"readingpapagoda\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that this story caught my eye as I had spent many any hour hanging out around the Pagoda back when I attended nearby Kutztown University. (I also freelanced for the <em>Reading Eagle<\/em> for a semester, too.) It&#8217;s a lovely building, celebrating its centennial this year. (Click on the image at right for a larger view.) I&#8217;ve been to a lot of film locations, but it should be interesting to see a place with some strong personal memories appearing on screen in such a different context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Last Airbender<\/strong>, the first in a planned trilogy, is scheduled to hit theaters July 2, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Cameras begin rolling today, weather permitting, on M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s live-action animae adaptation The Last Airbender on location in Reading, Pennsylvania. Roughly an hour north of the director&#8217;s hometown and favorite shooting location Philadelphia, Shyamalan <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/02\/the-last-airbender-begins-shooting-today-in-reading-pa\/\" title=\"THE LAST AIRBENDER Begins Shooting Today In Reading, PA\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10285],"tags":[3,1545,63,1544,47],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-tv-news","9":"tag-coming-soon","10":"tag-m-night-shyamalan","11":"tag-on-location","12":"tag-the-last-airbender","13":"tag-tv-to-film"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}