Last Airbender Live-Action Netflix Show Reportedly Casting Avatar Kuruk
A new casting call for Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbendersuggests the series is adding Avatar Kuruk to its lineup. Netflix first entered development on a live-action Avatar series in 2018, thus igniting hope that there could be something to wash away the disappointment of M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. For years, though, there were few updates, and in 2020, Avatar's original creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino exited the project. Albert Kim has since come on board as showrunner, and the series kicked off production late last year after adding several people to its cast.
Expected to be a reimagining of the beloved animated show, Netflix's Avatar will dive right into Aang's story. Newcomer Gordon Cormier will play Aang for the series, while Kiawentiio and Ian Ousley are on tap to play Katara and Sokka, respectively. Dallas Liu plays Zuko, Avatar's first major villain. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Elizabeth Yu, and Daniel Dae Kim help round out the cast. Avatar season 1 will be made up of 8 1-hour episodes, and there is a good chance it won't premiere until early 2023.
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The series is still in production on season 1, as is clear from a recent casting notice flagged by Knight Edge Media. Avatar is reportedly looking for a man of Indigenous decent in his 30s or 40s to play «Dakota.» According to the report, it seems likely that the character is actually Avatar Kuruk, the last Water Tribe Avatar to come before Aang. The casting breakdown is as follows:
[DAKOTA]
Character is male, 30s to 40s, of Indigenous descent. A legendary warrior from the past, he appears as a spirit to deliver a warning to the tribe about the consequences of
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