Set to be adapted into a live-action series, Netflix is offering a dynamic new look of the upcoming ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ live-action series.
The Netflix adaptation has been in development since 2018, and now, five years later, things are working up.
The mid-00s Nickelodeon TV show remains a timeless morality tale about young people speaking truth to power. Here is everything we know so far about Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender:
What it is about?
The animated series is a standard half-hour program and while it’s beloved by many, it could have benefited from longer episodes — for example, Aang and Katara learn water bending at a very rushed pace.
Plot
Avatar: The Last Airbender is a coming-of-age story that follows Aang, a 12-year-old boy who is the key to saving the world. Along the way, Aang meets his friends Katara, Sokka, and others as they liberate the Water Tribe and Earth Kingdoms from the reign of the Fire Nation.
In the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, people are born into one of four nations: the Water Tribe, Earth Kingdoms, Air Nomads, and the Fire Nation.
Depending on which nation you’re a part of, you might have the ability to be a ‘bender’ someone who can literally bend your nation’s element to your will and only the Avatar can master all four elements because he serves as the bridge between the humans and the spirit world.
The main plot of the series will follow Aang’s journey to becoming a fully realized Avatar while also giving them more room to develop the supporting cast and subplots that might have been brushed off in the original, using the extra runtime to its advantage.
Episodes
Each episode will likely be around 40 minutes to an hour, giving the characters more time to be fleshed out.
Cast
- Gordon Cormier
- Kiawentiio
- Ian Ousley
- Dallas Liu
- Daniel Dae Kim
Release date
As of right now, Netflix has not officially announced any date. However, the production started in November 2021 and the series will arrive sometime in 2024.
