That Avatar Kyoshi Movie Was Never Going To Happen
The universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender will be expanding through the release of a trilogy of animated movies, but none of them will center around Avatar Kyoshi. When the trilogy was originally announced, it was speculated that the first movie would be about Kyoshi. However, it's official that the first movie will be about Aang. Although this might be disappointing for some, centering the first movie around Aang is more fitting for the franchise’s return.
When reports of new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated content first surfaced, it was speculated that the movies would focus on Kyoshi, Zuko, and Korra, respectively. This was officially dismissed with a post on Nickelodeon Animation’s Twitter, where Korra’s voice actress Janet Varney announced that the first movie of the new Avatar: The Last Airbender spinoffs would be focused on “Avatar Aang and his friends” (via Twitter). While this could be potentially upsetting news for fans, focusing one of the upcoming movies around Kyoshi was always an unlikely choice.
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Kyoshi has become a subject of interest through the release of two young adult novels that centered around her early journey as the Avatar and that have been met with enthusiasm regarding the potential of adapting them into an animated format. However, this notion has been disregarded by franchise creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. According to DiMartino, “I think the thing we’re not doing now...is, like, we’re not adapting the graphic novels into a [movie or] TV show, we’re not adapting the YA novels into a movie or TV show” (via iHeart). With no current intention from the creators to adapt Avatar’s literary works
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