By redaktionen og Ole G. Jensen  Print
16-03 - 06:27

A crew of 136 actors, producers and technicians touched down in Ilulissat today to begin filming for ‘Avatar, the Last Airbender’, a live action version of a popular children’s cartoon about about 12-year-old boy capable of saving the world.

Filming in the north-west Greenland village will take place from 23 March to 3 April, and the scenes will make up a total of six minutes in the final production.

In addition to Greenland, sceens will also be filmed in Vietnam, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hollywood Reporter also reports that the film is the first edition of a trilogy with a budget of $250 million.

‘Avatar, the Last Airbender’ is directed by Night Shymalan, who also directed the 1999 thriller ‘Sixth Sense’, starring Bruce Willis

Greenland has previously been the backdrop for other films. Most recently, Disney filmed scenes in western Greenland using specially trained sledge dogs.

Ole G. Jensen contributed to this report