We are just a couple of months away from the premiere of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the streamer has released new photos of several unseen characters. Check them out below…
First is a new image of Gordon Cormier’s Aang as he tries entering his meditative Avatar state followed by our first looks at Casey Camp-Horinek (Reservation Dogs) as Sokka and Katara’s grandmother Gran Gran, Danny Pudi (Community) as the Earth Kindgom’s inventor The Mechanist, Sebastian Amoruso (I Know What You Did Last Summer) as young rebel leader Jet, Arden Cho (Teen Wolf) as the bounty hunter June, and Maria Zhang (WorkInProgress) as the Kyoshi Warrior Suki with Tamlyn Tomita (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) as Suki’s mother Mayor Yukari.
Written and showrun by Albert Kim, Netflix bills the series as an “authentic adaptation of the award-winning and beloved Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender reimagined as a live-action adventure.” Directing the eight-episode first season is Jabbar Raisani, Michael Goi, Roseanne Liang and Jet Wilkinson. Raisani, Goi and Liang also serve as executive producers.
While we wait for the premiere of the Netflix series, Paramount is moving forward with three animated Avatar: The Last Airbender films that will follow separate adventures of potentially different time periods in the mythology. The first film will follow Aang and his friends in the years following the original series’ conclusion while another has been teased to explore Kyoshi, an Avatar who existed two cycles before Aang.
Set in an Asiatic, war-torn world where certain people can ‘bend’ one of the four classical elements: water, earth, fire, or air. Aang (Gordon Cormier) is the “Avatar”, the only one capable of bending all the elements, and is destined to bring peace to the world from the Fire Nation. With his new companions Katara (Kiawentiio) and Sokka (Ian Ousley), Aang sets out to master the elements while being pursued by the exiled Fire Nation prince Zuko (Daniel Dae Kim), who seeks to regain his honor by capturing the Avatar.
Avatar: The Last Airbender features Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Zuko, Elizabeth Yu as Azula, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Iroh, and Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai.
Avatar: The Last Airbender arrives on Netflix on February 22nd.
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