

Who's in the cast of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender series? Other executive producers will include Dan Lin ( The Lego Movie), Lindsey Liberatore (CW’s Walker), and Michael Goi ( Swamp Thing). In August, Polygon announced that Albert Kim ( Sleepy Hollow, Nikita) would be the showrunner for the series. However, it’s likely the current health crisis and Hollywood-wide production shutdowns have delayed the series once more. In hindsight, the slow progress on the live-action series may have been because of what was going on behind the scenes with the creators and Netflix.Īs of January, ProductionWeekly reports The Last Airbender is expected to begin production this year. Right now, everything seems slow, and we’re itching to speed up before we know it, everything will be moving too fast and happening all at once.” Though there’s plenty that’s new for us in this live action process, we’ve been on this long rollercoaster ride twice before and a lot of the climbs and twists and turns feel familiar. However, the show is still in the pre-production stages of development and has not moved forward as far as we know.Īs of May 2019, Bryan Konietzko updated fans, explaining that he and his team had moved into the next phase of production, but that things were moving slow. Per TheWrap, production on the series was due to start in 2019. Three years after it was announced, the live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender doesn’t yet have a scheduled launch timeframe. When can we expect the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender show?Īvatar, Katara, and Sokka are ready for their live-action close-up. So here's everything we know about the upcoming live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender. But that doesn't mean Netflix is backing down. But two years later, Konietzko and DiMartino revealed that they had left the production, claiming that Netflix didn't "follow-through" on its promise to support the duo's vision for the show.Īnother six months later, the future of Netflix's live-action The Last Airbender is as mysterious as ever - especially now that Konietzko and DiMartino are back at Nickelodeon and helming a new Avatar Studios. In 2018, Netflix revealed a live-action Avatar series with original creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko returning as showrunners. However, that hasn't stopped one other studio from attempting to do the same thing and bring Avatar: The Last Airbender to live-action once again. Shyamalan's film was supposed to kick off a trilogy, but it got such bad reviews Paramount and Nickelodeon killed the entire project.
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Night Shyamalan's universally despised 2010 live-action movie set the entire franchise back for a full decade. It was the good news fans needed after M. After experiencing an Avatar revival in 2020 after both the original animated series and the sequel show Legend of Korra returned to Netflix. Avatar: The Last Airbender has never been more popular.
