Animated 'Avatar: the Last Airbender' Gets Sequel, Plus Two More of Netflix's Live-Action Seasons (deadline.com) 22
Netflix calls it "a live-action reimagining of the acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. And this weekend Netflix shared a blooper reel from their live-action show's first season, reports Engadget, "giving fans a look at some cute behind the scenes antics while they wait for the next season."
The first season was released a year ago, and Netflix announced shortly after that the show had been renewed for two more [with the third season being its last]. There's no release date yet for the new episodes, but the streaming service said on Saturday that production for the second season is underway.
"Just as the animated series matured and progressed, the live-action will also take these characters and worlds and grow them," executive producers Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani said in Netflix's announcement.
And speaking of Nickeloden's 2005 animated series, "The mythology and adventure of Avatar: The Last Airbender will continue," writes Deadline, "with Avatar: Seven Havens, a new 26-episode, 2D-animated series ordered by Nickelodeon, from original series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and Avatar Studios....
"The duo also was originally involved in Netflix's live-action series adaptation but left in 2020 due to creative differences." Avatar: Seven Havens is set in a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm. A young Earthbender discovers she's the new Avatar after Korra — but in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity's destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization's last strongholds collapse...
"When we created the original series, we never imagined we'd still be expanding the world decades later," said DiMartino and Konietzko....
Previously announced, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies' Untitled Animated Aang Avatar film debuts only in theaters on January 30, 2026, featuring a voice cast that includes Dave Bautista, Dionne Quan, Jessica Matten, Román Zaragoza and introducing Eric Nam.
"Just as the animated series matured and progressed, the live-action will also take these characters and worlds and grow them," executive producers Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani said in Netflix's announcement.
And speaking of Nickeloden's 2005 animated series, "The mythology and adventure of Avatar: The Last Airbender will continue," writes Deadline, "with Avatar: Seven Havens, a new 26-episode, 2D-animated series ordered by Nickelodeon, from original series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and Avatar Studios....
"The duo also was originally involved in Netflix's live-action series adaptation but left in 2020 due to creative differences." Avatar: Seven Havens is set in a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm. A young Earthbender discovers she's the new Avatar after Korra — but in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity's destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization's last strongholds collapse...
"When we created the original series, we never imagined we'd still be expanding the world decades later," said DiMartino and Konietzko....
Previously announced, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies' Untitled Animated Aang Avatar film debuts only in theaters on January 30, 2026, featuring a voice cast that includes Dave Bautista, Dionne Quan, Jessica Matten, Román Zaragoza and introducing Eric Nam.
Live action versions of animated shows (Score:5, Interesting)
I think the only reason many of these exist is a Western stigma against animation as a serious medium or a view that it's merely for children. Perhaps this will change with time as Western audiences who have grown up watching Japanese anime start consuming more locally produced media of a similar sort, but I don't think we're quite there yet.
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There are a few live action versions of animated shows I've seen that have been decent or watchable, but generally they're a mistake. Often times the things that make them great are due to the possibilities of the medium in which they exist and trying to translate them loses a lot, much like the film version of a book is rarely as good as the original.
This is generally true but... that's true mostly for people who have consumed the original medium. There's always a nostalgia barrier. But often if someone comes into the new media first, they're much more accepting. Not everything needs to be The Expanse (book to TV) or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio play to book and we just won't talk about the stage play or movies). It's kind of like Doctor Who, where people will usually say "so-and-so is my Doctor", because that's the actor they first s
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Rick and Morty is supposed to be clever but I just can't get past all the shitting-himself noises.
It's clever if you're gen Z and it's your first exposure to a lot of well-worn sci-fi tropes. Otherwise, yeah, it's just derp faces and dick and fart jokes with plots lifted from shows that the writers grew up watching.
Ironically, South Park nailed it in an episode (which is now over 13 years old) appropriately named "You're Getting Old". Rick and Morty sucks because you're old enough to remember shows that did those sci-fi tropes better. For younger folks, Rick and Morty is their Twilight Zone, their St
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i think you're selling Rick and Morty short. While it certainly plays with sci-fi tropes it often takes them head on and I like how they extrapolate their premises and gags to their logical conclusions. Or at least to more levels than usual. I don't like all of it, and i HATE that Rick is always (supposedly) drunk and has drool/puke/spit-up on his face as part of his character design, but it's had some pretty dam clever bits. Hmm... it's like a sci-fi South Park, i guess.
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Tom got some pretty bad writing and typically bad productions budgets to go with it, but so much quality expansion of the Doctor Who universe.
If you ask me where NuWho went wrong, I'll be comparing to the Baker run for sure.
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It's happening slowly, with shows like Invincible. I think the bigger issue now is that such shows find it hard to get funding. We are yet to have a really break-out one.
When you think about Japanese anime like Hokuto no Ken or Doraemon that have achieved long lasting, widespread appeal, to the point where everyone knows them, young and old. Ai wo Torimodose is the manliest love song ever written, in a testosterone saturated nonsense kind of way, and again everyone knows it just like they know the theme fro
There's only one thing missing from this remake (Score:2)
M. Night Shyamalan.
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It just won't be the same without the bringing of the elderly.
So, root for destroying civilization (Score:2)
Is that the latest trend in Hollywood?
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What does woke mean?
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You already know that it's a dog-whistle way of saying the show has too many [n-word that rhymes with "Tiggers"] and [f-word that rhymes with "maggots"] in it, so no sense in getting them to admit as much.
By any reasonable logic, "woke" as it's been co-opted by the right-wing should be a more offensive term, since it's basically a catch-all for any minority group the author/speaker happens to dislike (and usually, it's all of them).
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Posting AC (and not the prev AC), but in the Avatar universe it was all pretty color diverse and girl power anyway in the original show, and even more girl power in The Legend of Korra. Obviously with Korra as the next avatar, but also older women as powerful political leaders, not just hot young girls with magic powers.
So the woke break from this already quite "diverse" baseline was that they shoved Korra into a lesbian relationship literally in the last scene of the series.
i haven't sworn off he universe
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Posting AC (and not the prev AC), but in the Avatar universe it was all pretty color diverse and girl power anyway in the original show, and even more girl power in The Legend of Korra. Obviously with Korra as the next avatar, but also older women as powerful political leaders, not just hot young girls with magic powers.
So the woke break from this already quite "diverse" baseline was that they shoved Korra into a lesbian relationship literally in the last scene of the series.
i haven't sworn off he universe, but that did get a heavy eye-roll of disappointment from me.
Be careful or the lefties infesting this and other tech sites will label you as some kind of invented misogynist, right-wing, transphobic, MAGA hater of women and minorities because you don't cater to the 0.6% of transgender people in the United States being painted as 50% of the population in the fictional world. Make sure you get your tuckable swim trunks over at Target on your way to the bathrooms for those suffering from mental disorders.