Netflix has launched a brand new take a look at its 2024 live-action Avatar: The Final Airbender collection, that includes solely the most well liked benders: The Hearth Nation royal household.
The images are followers’ first take a look at Daniel Dae Kim (Misplaced) as royal dad Hearth Lord Ozai, Paul Solar-Hyung Lee (The Mandalorian, Ahsoka) as royal uncle Uncle Iroh, Elizabeth Yu (Someplace in Queens) as royal daughter Princess Azula, in addition to a brand new shot of Dallas Liu (PEN15) as royal disowned son, Prince Zuko. And in addition Ken Leung (Previous) as not really royal besides for the way he’s a royal ache within the ass, Commander Zhao.
Picture: Robert Falconer/Netflix
Picture: Robert Falconer/Netflix
Picture: Robert Falconer/Netflix
Picture: Robert Falconer/Netflix
All 4 look fairly nicely decked out within the traditional Hearth Nation reds and blacks, and followers will get to see much more in 2024, when the eight-episode collection hits Netflix.
Now, only for the sake of disambiguation, this live-action collection, which can adapt the Nickelodeon animated collection of the identical title, is distinct from Nick’s personal efforts within the space of animation.
Franchise creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko stepped away from the Netflix manufacturing in 2020, citing a “unfavourable and unsupportive surroundings” and a basic lack of the inventive management that they had anticipated — although they wished the oldsters nonetheless engaged on the present nicely.
Of their wake, Albert Kim (Sleepy Hole) stepped in as showrunner for the Netflix collection, with Michael Goi (Riverdale), Jabbar Raisani (Misplaced in Area), and Roseanne Liang (Shadow within the Cloud) directing the primary season. DiMartino and Konietzko will nonetheless have writing credit on just a few of its episodes, and are at the moment busy heading up Avatar Studios for ViacomCBS, which is in growth on an animated film reportedly following Aang and the Gaang on a brand new journey, due in 2025.
So, the Netflix Airbender: No Mike and Bryan, live-action TV collection, similar story because the cartoon. The Avatar Studios Airbender: Sure Mike and Bryan, animated film, new story concerning the characters from the cartoon.
Or, to place it one other means, it’s going to be an fascinating few years for Airbender followers.