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Yip Yip! It’s finally time for Netflix’s long-awaited live-action series adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. If you’re already a fan of the story, you’re mostly likely tentatively excited to watch the new reboot after the success of Netflix’s One Piece adaptation, but still hurting over the 2010 live-action M. Night Shyamalan movie The Last Airbender (I’ll just let the Rotten Tomatoes score speak for itself). For any newcomers to the world of Avatar — the award-winning 2005 show, NOT the James Cameron franchise — welcome! Let’s catch you up: Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked….Avatar: The Last Airbender begins with 12-year-old Aang, who has been frozen in an iceberg for a hundred years. When Aang defrosts to find he is the last of his kind after the Fire Nation attacked, things quickly heat up. To defeat the Fire Nation, Aang sets out on a mission to master the four elements with the help of some new friends. Are you ready to watch the new live-action Avatar? Here’s everything you need to know about Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender.When does the new Avatar: The Last Airbender come out?The new Netflix series premieres with all eight hour-long episodes on Netflix this Thursday, Feb. 22.Avatar: The Last Airbender cast:Avatar: The Last Airbender stars Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, and Dallas Liu as Zuko.Also in the cast are Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Uncle Iroh, Lim Kay Siu as Gyatso, Ken Leung as Commander Zhao, Elizabeth Yu as Princess Azula, Maria Zhang as Kyoshi warrior Suki, C.S. Lee as Avatar Roku, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Kim Bumi, Amber Midthunder as Princess Yue, A Martinez as Pakku, Yvonne Chapman as Avatar Kyoshi, Tamlyn Tomita as Yukari, Casey Camp-Horinek as Gran Gran, and more.How to watch the new Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)You can stream all eight episodes of the new Avatar: The Last Airbender series on Netflix.How to watch the original Last Airbender showDespite Netflix being the home of the new Avatar series, all three seasons of the original 2005 Avatar: The Last Airbender animated show, and its spinoff, The Legend of Korra, are available to stream on Paramount+.How to watch The Last Airbender (2010) movieThe widely-panned 2010 live-action The Last Airbender film is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video — but only for the next week!

Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series blew into our lives with season one in 2024. And happily, the cartoon-adaptation series was renewed for season two and a final season three. Avatar: The Last Airbender season two will, of course, bring back all our live-action favorites, including Aang, Sokka, Katara, Zuko, Uncle Iroh, and more. But, new faces and friends, including the highly-anticipated live-action version of Toph will come to join them on their journey. Season one of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series took us on a journey that we happily really enjoyed. And so, we can’t wait for more.NetflixHere’s everything we know about Avatar: The Last Airbender season two. Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2’s PlotWe don’t know for sure what Avatar: The Last Airbender season two’s plot will bring us. But if season one was any indication, we’ll be following the journey of the Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon’s Book Two: Earth. In Book Two: Earth, the Gaang spent a lot of time in the Earth Kingdom city of Ba Sing Se, where not all was as well as it seemed. In the Earth Kingdom, Team Avatar faced the dangerous Dai Li, encroaching threats from the Fire Nation, and the true threat of all ignorance and fears.In Book Two of Avatar: The Last Airbender, as will happen in the live-action, Toph also joined Avatar Aang’s group as his Earthbending master. Additionally, Prince Zuko continued his journey toward the side of goodness and redemption, but not without a few setbacks. We can’t wait to see if “Zuko Alone” features in the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender season two.NetflixOf course, as with season one, the live-action series is unlikely to deliver a perfect replica of the cartoon but instead will make some changes and additions of its own. We’re excited for that.Behind the ScenesCo-executive producers Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani will be helming season two of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series as showrunners. Season one showrunner Albert Kim will remain an executive producer on the show.Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2’s CastNetflixAll the main cast of Avatar: The Last Airbender season one will return in season two. That means we’ll see more of Gordon Cormier as Avatar Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, and Dallas Liu as Zuko. Additionally, Daniel Dae Kim will likely return as the villainous Fire Lord Ozai. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee will be back as the wonderful Uncle Iroh, and Elizabeth Yu will reprise her role as the fiery Princess Azula.NetflixJoining the core cast will be Miya Cech, who will play the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s Toph (a master Earthbender) in season two. Additionally, several other Earth Kingdom roles have been cast. Those include the following:Chin Han (Mortal Kombat, Skyscraper) plays Long FengHoa Xuande (The Sympathizer, Top of the Lake: China Girl) as Professor ZeiAmanda Zhou (Spinning Out, The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Joo DeeCrystal Yu (Doctor Who, Good Omens) plays Lady BeifongKelemete Misipeka (Sons of Thunder) plays The

Help make this version more weighty, it has the opposite effect. The Netflix series tries to frame Avatar as a serious epic about colonialism and genocide, which the original was, in addition to its attributes as a coming-of-age story and picaresque comedy. You don’t need to discard the lighter aspects for the other elements to exist. Without much apparent wit or perspective, the show is overwhelmed by a droning sameness. Avatar’s aesthetic resembles a lot of Netflix’s attempts at turning anime (or anime-inspired, in this case) into live action, as with Cowboy Bebop and One Piece, which is to say that it tries to replicate the visuals of one medium without paying attention to how they might read in a new context. In animation, for instance, the white makeup of the Kyoshi Warriors looks cool and expressive; when Netflix’s version re-creates it in live action, you just see adults wearing too much face paint. There’s a thread of faulty reasoning here connecting this Avatar to the Disney live-action musical remakes: that we should be impressed simply by a good replication of the original. That’s the kind of thinking that makes people believe an AI program regurgitating aggregated ideas is actually being creative. Right out of the gate, Netflix’s Avatar fails to answer the big question facing any adaptation: Why does this exist? There’s the obvious point that, in casting Asian and Indigenous actors, the series has righted a wrong of the original series, which had a cast of mostly white actors (as did the best-forgotten M. Night Shyamalan film). But that kind of representation doesn’t amount to an artistic idea in and of itself. It’s possible the show, in later episodes or later seasons, does find a way to take this world in a new direction, but all indications point

At long last, “Avatar 2” has arrived. James Cameron has been teasing this sequel for a literal decade, and we’ve watched as Cameron and Co. have developed and given status updates on the four “Avatar” sequels that he put together at the same time. We’ve also watched as release dates have come and gone, but with “Avatar: The Way of Water” now streaming and footage for multiple additional sequels already in the can, we are well on our way to “Avatar 3” and beyond.Since Cameron developed this as a four-film story that continues on after his 2009 film, many may have questions about “Avatar 3” – namely when does it come out, who’s in it, and what do we know about the story? Here’s everything we know about “Avatar 3” so far.Also Read: James Cameron Compares ‘Avatar’ Sequels to Episodic Television: ‘It’s Really One Big Story’ (Exclusive Video)It’s Coming Out in 2024“Avatar 3” is set for release on Dec. 20, 2024, so we have two years to wait until we find out how this story continues. That is the film’s eighth release date overall, as it was originally scheduled to be released in December 2015 before many (many, many) delays.It’s Already Been FilmedThe other good news is that “Avatar 3” is already in the can. James Cameron shot “Avatar 2,” “Avatar 3,” and parts of “Avatar 4” at the same time across an epic production period. With “Avatar 3” already in the can, Cameron and his team now fully turn their attention to completing post-production on the sequel for the next couple of years.The Story Was Originally Part of “Avatar 2”20th Century StudiosWhen Cameron originally announced his intention to make multiple “Avatar” sequels, there were three of them. But in writing the scripts for all three, he said he realized that the story for “Avatar 2” needed to be expanded into two different movies.It Could Be Titled “Avatar: The Seed Bearer”A string of titles for the “Avatar” sequels was leaked in 2019, and Cameron confirmed that they were among many titles being considered for the sequels. In that leaked batch, “Avatar 2” was called “Avatar: The Seed Bearer.”More New Cast Members Will Be Introduced to the Franchise, Including Michelle Yeoh“Avatar: The Way of Water” introduced a number of new characters to the franchise, including some played by Kate Winslet and Edie Falco, and “Avatar 3” will introduce even more.Oona Chaplin (“Game of Thrones”) plays a character named Varang who becomes central to the franchise; David Thewlis (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”) plays a Na’vi character who shows up in 3 and runs all the way through 5; and Michelle Yeoh fills the live-action role of Dr. Karina Mogue.They’ll join returning cast members Sam Worthington (Jake Sully), Zoe Saldaña (Neytiri), Stephen Lang (Colonel Miles Quaritch), Tonowari (Cliff Curtis), CCH Pounder (Mo’at), Sigourney Weaver (Kiri) and more.If “Avatar 2” Failed, “Avatar 3” Still Probably Would Have Been ReleasedSince “Avatar 3” is in the can and already being worked on, Cameron

By fans and critics. And though Chris Columbus' "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" (also 2010) got a sequel and didn't provoke the same level of vitriol, it came nowhere close to reaching the status of Columbus' first "Harry Potter" film.Adapting the stories into a different live-action medium gave the "Percy Jackson" and "Avatar: The Last Airbender" showrunners a chance to make different choices than the filmmakers did. This time around, for instance, the child actors who play the main trio in "Percy Jackson" actually match the ages of the kids in the books — unlike the movie, which aged the characters up a few years.Steinberg said that while it's easy to understand the instinct to avoid certain production complications that come with casting younger actors, "everything changes the moment you're in a teen story instead of a preteen, adolescent story.""It just didn't feel like it was gonna be honest if it wasn't coming out of the voice of a kid," Steinberg said.Raisani also pointed out that streaming platforms permit creatives to take the time they need to finish and fine-tune all the episodes before the season is released. In linear TV, a season of a show typically begins airing before all of the episodes are filmed and completed.Read more: Arden Cho didn't feel 'tough enough' for 'Avatar.' Then she got into June's shoesBecause the series was made for streaming, Raisani explained, the "Avatar" team had the "luxury" of being able to go back and tweak earlier episodes — a key advantage when working on an ambitious project with a complex story and heavy visual effects.For example, Raisani said that a digital double of the high-flying protagonist, Aang, wasn't ready by the time "Avatar" started filming. So they blocked out certain scenes during production and inserted the digital replica after the fact."That's the benefit of working in a nonlinear delivery platform," Raisani said.Read more: Meet the live-action stars of Netflix's 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'Like linear TV, movies have their limitations too.The makers of Paramount Pictures' "The Last Airbender" and 20th Century Fox's "The Lightning Thief" were tasked with condensing several hours and hundreds of pages worth of content respectively into feature-length films.The eight-episode seasons of the new "Percy Jackson" and "Avatar: The Last Airbender" enabled the creators to cover significantly more ground and potentially deliver more faithful interpretations of the source material."There were so many episodes, and there was that depth of character exploration from the original animation," said Peter Friedlander, head of scripted series at Netflix. "To match that to a live-action [TV series] feels really organic."Read more: 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' just got more accessible to blind audiencesSteinberg speculated that a tender moment in which Percy and his friend Annabeth bond over their blessing-and-curse predicament as demigods while falling asleep on a train would have been the first scene to get cut had "Percy Jackson" been adapted into another film instead."There just would have been so much stuff that wouldn't have fit," Steinberg said. "The chance