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Everything we know about Avatar Studios’ first movie
It’s time for a good ol’ masterpost!
Here’s everything we here at Avatar News know about Avatar Studios’ first movie! Info that Avatar News is the exclusive source for is specified, otherwise everything is official public info from Paramount/Avatar Studios/etc.
Last updated on February 18th, 2023.
Title
The movie is currently designated “ANIMATED AANG AVATAR” in Paramount's slate, but is untitled
The Avatar franchise has been officially named “Avatar Legends” since 2022
A potential working title is Avatar The Last Airbender: Echoes and Aftershocks, based on a Paramount employee’s resume
A rumored title is Hidden Kingdom
Release
Release date: October 10th, 2025
Will be released in theaters exclusively at first, then stream on Paramount+ after
Previously estimated for 2024 internally at Paramount, but not announced publicly (source: Avatar News)
Story
Featuring “Aang and his friends”
Aang and Team Avatar will be young adults (source: Avatar News)
A movie with a Zuko-focused storyline was/is in development, it’s possible that this is that movie (source: Avatar News) - Update: The Zuko movie is separate
Brand-new original story, not an adaptation of an existing story from a comic, novel, etc.
Crew on this specific movie
Director: Lauren Montgomery (storyboard artist on ATLA, supervising producer on TLOK Books 2-4, showrunner of Voltron: Legendary Defender)
Writer: Kenneth Lin (Netflix’s House of Cards, Paramount’s Star Trek: Discovery)
Producers: Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko (showrunners of ATLA and TLOK, Chief Creative Officers of Avatar Studios), Eric Coleman (executive in charge of production of ATLA, suggested the creation of the character of Zuko in early development)
Production companies: Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Avatar Studios, Flying Bark Productions
Crew at Avatar Studios whose involvement in this specific movie, if any, we don’t know yet
Composer: Jeremy Zuckerman (composer of ATLA and TLOK)
Writer: Tim Hedrick (writer on ATLA/TLOK/VLD, showrunner of Fast & Furious: Spy Racers)
Head of story(board): Steve Ahn (storyboard artist and assistant director on TLOK)
Executive art director: Christie Tseng (character designer on TLOK)
Art director: William Niu (background designer on TLOK)
Consultant on native representation: Migizi Pensoneau (Reservation Dogs)
Many, many more crewmembers, of course.
Animation
Animation studio: Flying Bark Productions (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018-2020), Glitch Techs (2020), Monkie Kid (2020-), Marvel Studios’ What If...? (2021), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022))
Animation style: traditional 2D + substantial CG
History of statements on animation style:
Sep 2 2021: “series of CG films” - Brian Robbins (president and CEO of Nickelodeon and chief content officer of kids and family for Paramount+)
Dec 2 2021: “outstanding and customized [...] unique production look” that “integrates [...] traditional 2D and CG” - Paramount recruiting for Avatar Studios
Jun 29 2022: “our main bread and butter is 2D animation” / “homage to anime” / “[not] gonna be [...] hardcore straightedge 2D” / “start with hand-drawn, handmade artwork and then: what can technology do to help us enhance it, to help us deepen it, to help the filmmaking, to make it more cinematic” / “not [...] starting purely 3D and then trying to stylize” / “looking hard to form our own look” / “not doing anything purely 3D” - Bryan Konietzko (Avatar Studios co-Chief Creative Officer)
Oct 13 2022: “2D Avatar feature film” / “couple traditional 2D animation with substantial CG elements” - Flying Bark Productions (the movie’s animation studio)
Cast
No cast info for this specific movie yet
Dante Basco is attached as Zuko, reprising his role from ATLA
A global casting call is going out for Asian and Indigenous voice actors in their 20s for Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph
Janet Varney, the voice of Korra in TLOK (2012-2014) has announced that she doesn’t want to voice Korra in the future; she wants an Indigenous voice actor to voice Korra (Korra is from the Water Tribe in the world of Avatar, which is inspired by Indigenous culture in the real world). It’s possible other voice actors will make the same choice.
Characters we know will definitely be in this movie:
Aang - previously voiced as a child by Zach Tyler Eisen in ATLA (2005-2008) and as an adult by D. B. Sweeney in TLOK (2012-2013)
Katara (source: Avatar News) - previously voiced as a child by Mae Whitman in ATLA (2005-2008) and as an elder by Eva Marie Saint in TLOK (2012-2014)
Zuko - see above
“Aang[’s] friends”
Other
Three theatrical animated movies are currently in development at Avatar Studios
Each movie has a standalone story-- they’re not a trilogy-- so the story of this movie won’t be continued in the next movie after it
The second movie is focused on Zuko (source: Avatar News)
The third movie is focused on the new earth Avatar after Aang and Korra (source: Avatar News)
The image above is official canon art of the Gaang as adults, but it’s from the lead-up to the release of The Legend of Korra in 2012, not from this upcoming movie. Fun fact: it was drawn by Joaquim Dos Santos, co-showrunner of TLOK and director of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2024)!
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2024 Reading Goals
Hello hello! Happy New Year to all!
Fun fact, by posting this at 11:00am GMT, 2023 has officially ended in all inhabited countries as UTC -11 is the last inhabited timezone.
I haven't been a resolutions person for a couple of years now but I admit I do love a challenge and goal setting. I also love reading. I'm sure you don't need the title to tell you where this is going. I've had goodreads since Sept, 2016 and have been taking part in their reading challenge since 2020. I've met my goal evey year except 2021 and I hope to make three years in a row this year!
2023's goal was an ambitious 48 books and I somehow managed to read 48 (I attribute a good 1/3 to getting a library card and access to libby). 18 of those books were comics/manga though and while I do believe anything with a ISBN counts, I'd like for comics & manga to only be about 25% of my books instead of the current 38%. I feel like I might be setting myself up a bit but I'm not going to be too upset if at the end of the year, I don't lower the percentage. This is just a bit of fun.
Anyways in no particular order, here's a tentative list of the 48 books I plan to read in 2024. This is subject to change due to availability, gifts, recommendations and new releases.
~Eli
Ace of All Trades, Pro at None😆
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales by Gene Luen Yang & Faith Erin Hicks
Girls and Autism by Barry Cerpenter, Francesca Happé & Jo Egerton
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
ATLA: The Promise by Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
Windrush by Mike Phillips & Trevor Phillips
In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
ATLA: The Search Omnibus by Gene Luen Yang
Queer by Frank Wynne
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
ATLA: The Rift Omnibus by Gene Luen Yang
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
ATLA: Smoke & Shadow Omnibus by Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
ATLA: North & South Omnibus by Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
I Will Not Be Erased by Gal-dem
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Katara & The Pirate's Silver by Faith Erin Hicks
They/Them/Their by Eris Young
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Suki, Alone by Faith Erin Hicks
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
The Turn of the Shrew by Henry James
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Abertalli
Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy by Faith Erin Hicks
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Middlemarch by George Elliot
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
The Movement Vol. 1: Class Warfare by Gail Simone
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Hold Tight, Don't Let Go by Laura Rose Wagner
Saga Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughn
#ace of all trades#hobby blog#hobbies#books#bookworm#book#booklr#books & libraries#bookblr#reading#books and reading#goodreads#book challenge#reading challenge#reading goals#2024 reading goals#tbr pile#tbr list#tbr#book tbr#to be read#to read
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Comics I need more of in 2023
The Lonesome Hunters
Tyler Crook’s both writing and drawing this series and it shows. I love the pacing, I love the emphasis on character. And apparently the next arc should kick off in either April or May, so I won’t have to wait too long for this.
Manor Black
The wait between the first and second arc was a long one thanks to the pandemic, but I’m hoping this series will be allowed to pick up some momentum with a new arc in 2023. Ideally, I’d like to see a new arc each year—Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt have plans for many more stories, and I would love to read them.
Tales from Harrow County
I don’t know how I’ll get through 2023 if we don’t get another arc of Tales from Harrow County. The second arc, Fair Folk, was left on a huge cliffhanger, and the third arc, Lost Ones, went sideways and told us a wildly different story that makes everything so much more epic and, of course, ended on another cliffhanger. The fourth arc will theoretically be dealing with the fallout from both these stories and I am in agony waiting for it.
The Night Eaters
From Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (somehow doing this new series while also doing a new arc of Monstress every year). This book was one of my highlights from 2022. Ipo is fantastic and I cannot get enough of her. There were times her dialogue had me laughing out loud.
Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra
At the moment the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics are being written by Faith Erin Hicks, which is about as close to a perfect choice as I can imagine—she understands the age group, she’s a huge fan of the series, and she really loves to dig deep into character and express it through action. (There’re reasons why I always pick up a book if Hicks’s name is on it.) Most importantly, Hicks has said before how she’s reluctant to do an Azula story, because it’s a delicate balance—and frankly, I wouldn’t want anyone writing Azula unless they felt that way. Peter Wartman’s an excellent fit too, managing to tackle not just the character and action, but the world itself—the world is such a huge part of these comics! This is gonna be great.
Meanwhile, it seems The Legend of Korra comics have stalled for now. We got a short story anthology this year (Patterns in Time, which I have not read thanks to Nickelodeon locking Australia out of digitally distribution). My hope is that this book helped Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino find a team that can carry this series somewhat regularly.
The Bone Orchard Mythos
We’ve already got Tenement and Starseed scheduled for 2023, but I’m hoping to see the beginning of some short stories or one-shots too. Shadow Eater can’t be collected until it has enough companions, after all. Plus, my favourite part of The Bone Orchard Mythos is seeing the creators play with different formats and that makes short stories very appealing to me.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein and Lilja on a roadtrip in the New World. Sounds like a pretty great book to me.
#comics#The Bone Orchard Mythos#Avatar: The Last Airbender#The Legend of Korra#The Lonesome Hunters#Manor Black#The Night Eaters#Harrow County#Tales from Harrow County#Frankenstein#Frankenstein: New World#Hellboy Universe
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Film Journal #7
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)
Directed By Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Giancarlo Volpe, Anthony Lioi, Ethan Spaulding, Joaquim Dos Santos, Michael Dante DiMartino
Created By Michael Dante DiMartino, Brian Konietzko
Executive Producers Michael Dante DiMartino, Brian Konietzko, Aaron Ehasz
Written By Jymn Magon, Bruce Talkington & Mark Zaslove
Animated By JM Animation, DR Movie, Moi Animation
Production company Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Distributor MTV Networks
Original release February 21, 2005 – July 19, 2008
1) Technique section:
Konietzko claims that the idea for the series first came to him in the beginning of 2001 as he was imagining a young version of an old sketch of a middle-aged, balding man. While viewing a programme on explorers stranded at the South Pole, DiMartino, who was present, saw the sketch of the man herding bison in the sky.
"There's an air person along with these water people imprisoned in a frozen wasteland... and maybe some fire people are crushing down on them," Konietzko said when describing their early conception of the idea. The idea was successfully submitted by the co-creators to Nickelodeon vice-president and executive producer Eric Coleman two weeks later.
The series is renowned for drawing heavily on East Asian mythology and art to create its fictional setting. To help choose its surroundings and visual direction, its authors enlisted the aid of calligrapher Siu-Leung Lee and cultural advisers Edwin Zane. Its character designs draw inspiration from Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Yoga, and Chinese art and history. Early on in the series' production, Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn collaborated to create the music and sound design; later, they divided the work, with Wynn handling the sound design and Zuckerman the music.
The "bender" characters' movements are inspired by Chinese martial arts, and Sifu Kisu of the Harmonious Fist Chinese Athletic Association served as a consultant for the design of these motions. Each fighting technique is exclusive to the "benders" who employ it or the characters who are connected with it. For instance, those who practise "waterbending" employ T'ai chi-inspired motions that are centred on alignment, body structure, breath, and visualisation. Hung Gar, chosen for its firmly planted postures and potent strikes as a depiction of the sturdiness of earth, served as the model for "earthbending" practitioners. To symbolise "firebending," the Northern Shaolin, which makes use of powerful arm and leg movements, was chosen. Ba Gua was utilised for "airbending," which involves dynamic circular movements and swift direction shifts. The earthbender Toph, who transforms into a praying mantis due to her eyesight, is seen practising the Chu Gar Southern Praying Mantis technique. The portrayal of these martial art bending manoeuvres was influenced by Asian film.
This animation was done digitally using adobe software for the most part. It was the same technique as traditional animation but was done in a computer instead. From storyboarding (pre-production), to animating (production) and visual effect (post-production), they were all done mostly using computer software.
2) Representation section:
In the Asian-inspired world of Avatar, certain people have developed "bending" techniques that allow them to telekinetically control one of the four elements—earth, fire, water, or air. These techniques were influenced by Chinese martial arts. The "Avatar," the sole person capable of controlling all four elements, acts as a link between the material world and the spirit realm and is in charge of preserving peace among the four countries of the earth. The series uses images mostly from Chinese culture, with some East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, New World, Siberian, and Arctic influences. It is presented in a style that merges anime with American cartoons.
The twelve-year-old Aang, the current Avatar and the lone survivor of his nation, the Air Nomads, and his friends Katara, Sokka, and later Toph, set off on a mission to put a stop to the Fire Nation's conflict with the rest of the world. Along with his sage uncle Iroh, Zuko, the exiled prince of the Fire Nation, subsequently recruited his ambitious sister Azula to help him capture Aang in an effort to regain his lost glory.
3) Reception section:
For its characters, cultural allusions, art design, soundtrack, humour, and themes, Avatar: The Last Airbender was ratings hit and won praise from both viewers and reviewers. These topics include those in youth entertainment that are rarely discussed, such as war, genocide, imperialism, tyranny, indoctrination, and free will. Five Annie Awards, a Genesis Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Kids' Choice Award, and a Peabody Award were all won by the show. Many critics consider the programme to be among the best animated television programmes of all time.
In addition to a live-action picture and a planned live-action remake series made for Netflix, the expanded Avatar franchise also consists of continuing comics, prequel novels, animated sequels, and live-action films. The entire series was made available to stream on Netflix in the US and Canada in May 2020, on Paramount+ in June 2020, and on Amazon Prime Video in January 2021. The Blu-ray release of the entire series took place in June 2018 to commemorate ten years since the series' finale.
I personally have not finished watching the series. I only started watching because it was such a popular show and I can get why. The whole production itself was very beautiful. I love how they used painting for their background, it reminds me of Ghibli animation. Story wise, it was well planned and detailed, which made the whole world building even more fascinating.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5943jz/avatar-the-last-airbender-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-shows-of-all-time
https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/arts/television/kung-fu-fightin-anime-stars-born-in-the-usa.html
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Hello, I want to contact the creators of the series Avatar the legend of Aang and Avatar the legend of Korra. Dear Michael Dante DiMartino and Brian Konietzko, not too long ago I had the idea to write a story for Avatar the legend of Korra. The comic will be about the time period between seasons 1 and 2. It will tell the story of the struggle of the Avatar team with the remnants of the forces of Amon who do not want to give up parts of the city. It will also be told in detail about the parents of Mako and Bolin and about the brothers themselves. Decided to call it "stranger from the past". The plot is ready, but also needs to be finalized. The story will be posted in future posts. If the creators of the series see this and you are interested, then please contact me. If a person who is interested in the story sees this, then mark like it. If someone has access to the authors, please send them this post. Thank you in advance.
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When will new avatar series come out
#When will new avatar series come out series#
Netflix is currently working on an Avatar series, but the franchise's original creators are no longer involved. Night Shyamalan, which was critically panned and is derided by fans. That should mean we see season 8 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine by March or April 2022 on Netflix outside of the United States. For the past three years (since the show moved to NBC), Netflix has gotten new seasons in Spring the following year. Less successful, however, was a live-action adaptation directed by M. Season 7, for example, landed on Netflix UK in March 2021 whereas Netflix Canada got it in April 2021. "Creator-driven stories and characters have long been the hallmarks of Nickelodeon, and Avatar Studios is a way to give Mike and Bryan the resources and runway to open up their imaginations even more and dive deeper into the action and mythology of Avatar as we simultaneously expand upon that world and the world of content available on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon."īeyond the two existing animated series, Avatar has branched out into comic books with some success. They contribute to the happiness of a lot of individuals and this show has become much more than just a show for a.
#When will new avatar series come out series#
In a follow-up interview with writer and creator Bryan Konietzko, IGN was able to find out that the cartoon series 'is essentially done. Co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino confirmed that Book 4 will be happening. Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Avatar The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are both such fascinating shows. Heres what weve found out so far: 'The Legend of Korra' will continue for another season. "Avatar The Last Airbender and have grown at least ten-fold in popularity since their original hit runs on Nickelodeon, and Ramsey Naito and I are incredibly excited to have Mike and Bryan's genius talent on board to helm a studio devoted to expanding their characters and world into new content and formats for fans everywhere," said ViacomCBS Kids & Family president Brian Robbins. With Zoe Saldana, Chloe Coleman, Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver. New adventures coming to and /OKIBCC4UmE - Nickelodeon Animation February 24, 2021 We're so excited to announce the launch of Avatar Studios with co-creators Mike and Bryan! 🌊🍃🔥💨
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instead of a live action remake of ATLA, just re-release the cartoon with everything the same, except all the characters are allowed to swear
#avatar: the last airbender#my posts#welovezutara#bryke#brian konietzko#michael dante dimartino#zutara#Zuko#katara#aang#toph#sokka#suki#iroh#jet#haru#mai#ty lee#Azula
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Because this is me, and here's the proof.
~Led Rotus
#Avatar The Last Airbender#atla#ATLA meme#meme#funny#charlie day meme#ma'am this is a wendys#netflix#live action avatar the last airbender#live action atla#bryke#mike dimartino#brian konietzko#michael dimartino#shyamalan#a:tla#nostalgia#avatar the last airbender meme#avatar tla#the last airbender#netflix adaptation
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BRYKE LEFT THE NETFLIX ATLA LIVE ACTION REMAKE !!! BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE CREATIVE CONTROL AS THEY WERE PROMISED!!
Fooled again.
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PSA to anyone watching LoK for the first time on Netflix, before you say anything stupid
waTCH THE ENTIRE GODDAMNED FOUR BOOKS FIRST
#avatar the legend of korra#alok#lok#legend of korra#korra#asami sato#mako#bolin#the krew#krew#nickelodeon#netflix#brian konietzko#michael dante dimartino
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Avatar The Last Airbender: One Season / Character: Season One - Katara
#Avatar The Last Airbender#Avatar#The Last Airbender#Katara#ATLA#tvandfilmdaily#tv and film daily#gif#mine#made by me#photoset#gifs#gifset#S1E1#S1E18#S1E19#S1E2#bryan konietzko#brian konietzko#mike dimartino#The Siege of the North#Pilot#The Boy in the Iceberg#The Waterbending Master#One set per character#waterbender#water bender
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Brian Koneitzko style Zim doodle
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I love how we all just collectively decided to watch Avatar the Last Airbender when Netflix added it in their roster.
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Wow I am just know realizing that ATLA and LOK have the best music ever!!! There is so much emotion in it!!!
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I'm so sad to hear the new avatar series is gonna be some kind of wrong too.
Why can't they let the artists do what they do best??? Like just Listen to them. They're the ones that created the thing everyone adores in the first place!!
Anyway. Time for some tear bending 😭
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