Netflix’s The Last Airbender live-action cast photos prepare fans for Avatar cold war
The 2023 edition of Netflix’s fan event Tudum made room for every possible fandom-friendly tease and IP flex, even if there wasn’t much to show. At the center of the event: The most basic of looks at the streamer’s upcoming live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, which has been in the works for half a decade. Promising to once again follow Avatar Aang and his pals Katara and Sokka as they quest to unite four elemental nations by defeating the conqueror Fire Lord Ozai, Netflix’s The Last Airbender took the spotlight with a teaser — or maybe more of a vibe check? — that showed off the symbols for the Water, Earth, Fire, and Air tribes, as well as images of the four main principle cast members in costume.
The Tudum segment also revealed that the show would premiere [waves hand] in 2024. That’s 366 potential drop dates — it’s a leap year, baby! — for Avatar: The Last Airbender. But to die-hard Airbender fans, it’s also one year out from the return of the original Aang gang to screens. Things might get weird.
Netflix first announced plans for a live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender in 2018, and at the time, it felt like a coup: Original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko would return to oversee what they saw as a “reimagining” of the Nickelodeon animated series, which unlike the M. Night Shyamalan film version, would try to do right by the identities of the characters. “We can’t wait to realize Aang’s world as cinematically as we always imagined it to be, and with a culturally appropriate, non-whitewashed cast,” they wrote in a statement at the time. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build upon everyone’s great work on the original animated series and go even deeper into the characters, story, action, and
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