![]() Here is a concept image from artist John Staub of Aang and Appa below:Ĭoncept art by John Staub.Netflix will partner with Nickelodeon to bring this magical world back to television. Netflix is wholly dedicated to manifesting our vision for this retelling, and we're incredibly grateful to be partnering with them," explained Konietzko and DiMartino. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build upon everyone's great work on the original animated series and go even deeper into the characters, story, action, and world-building. We can't wait to realize Aang's world as cinematically as we always imagined it to be, and with a culturally appropriate, non-whitewashed cast. "We're thrilled for the opportunity to helm this live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Netflix has announced that it will bring Aang's epic story to Netflix in a live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.īeginning production in 2019, Avatar: The Last Airbender will be helmed by original series creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino. ![]() Pick up my sci-fi novels Herokiller and Herokiller 2, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. But yeah, skepticism seems like the right stance for now.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. We won’t really know anything until we start hearing about casting or seeing some previews. Then again, they have also taken seemingly impossible tasks and made them brilliant (a live action Witcher adaptation that simultaneously pleases both book and game fans). Netflix has been known for taking a good thing, trying to add to it, and having that not go so well (I’d cite follow-up Arrested Development seasons and the El Camino Breaking Bad movie as examples of that). It really does seem like the series should not move forward without its original creators, and if they disagreed with the direction of the show, that certainly does seem like a reason to be nervous about it. ![]() Night Shyamalan Last Airbender movie which is seared into the brains of fans, if they haven’t tried to block it out altogether, and so no one really has the taste for a live-action attempt. The first is that the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series is about as close to perfect as you can get, so it’s hard to know if an adaptation would add anything to it, rather than simply have the potential to take away from it instead. The problem is that the series has two big things working against it that had fans concerned even before this shake-up. And who wouldn’t want an enormous check from Netflix, right? Dan Lin and his Rideback team seem to be the ones in charge now, and Nickelodeon is still on board as it appears that they, not DiMartino and Konietzko, have the necessary rights to make that happen. ![]()
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