Netflix’s Live-Action Last Airbender Series Finally Casts Uncle Iroh

We’ve identified the younger stars of Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender for a couple of months, leaving followers to marvel: who would play Uncle Iroh, the kindly former Fire Nation general-turned-mentor who travels with Prince Zuko, and one of the crucial beloved characters in your entire franchise? We have our reply, and that’s not all.

In a spate of recent casting bulletins, Netflix revealed Kim’s Convenience star Paul Sun-Hyung Lee will play Uncle Iroh within the sequence. Lost’s Ken Leung will play Commander Zhao, the Fire Nation army officer who serves because the present’s first main antagonist, whereas Nightwatch’s Lim Kay Siu will play Gyatso, the sensible Air Nomad monk who serves as Aang’s trainer earlier than the younger Avatar will get frozen underneath the ice for 100 years.

Additionally, the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender has simply began manufacturing, so it’s formally occurring—and it’s occurring with the unimaginable VFX know-how used fantastically by The Mandalorian, which bodes extraordinarily nicely for the sequence. Netflix says, “The state of the art stage, designed and operated by Pixomondo (“PXO”) Virtual Production, is 84 toes throughout and 28 toes excessive with 23,000 sq. toes of stage house and greater than 3000 LED Panels, making it one of many largest digital manufacturing volumes in North America.” Pixomondo, by the way, gained a number of Emmys for its VFX work on Game of Thrones and an Academy Award for the Martin Scorsese movie Hugo, so if nothing else this present ought to look extraordinarily good.

Lee, Leung, and Siu be part of Gordon Cormier (Lost in Space, The Stand) as Aang, Kiawentiio (What If, Anne With an E) as Katara, Ian Ousley (13 Reasons Why, Sorry For Your Loss) as Sokka, and Dallas Liu (PEN15) as Prince Zuko. Leung’s Lost co-star Daniel Dae Kim will play Iroh’s youthful brother and Zuko’s father Ozai, the Fire Nation warlord. There’s no launch date for the sequence, however hey, they simply began filming, okay? Cut them some slack.

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