Last yr, Nickelodeon introduced their plans to proceed the beloved universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender. With the titular Avatar Studios on the helm, we realized final month that the studio’s first outing could be not one, however three characteristic movies set within the universe of Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s martial arts fantasy anime. Since then, there’ve been rumors and hopes about who will lead these movies, and we now know a minimum of certainly one of them will reunite us with the heroic youngsters who began all of it.

During the “Avatar: Braving the Elements” panel, Janet Varney, who voiced Korra within the sequel sequence of the identical title, revealed that the primary Avatar movie would convey again Avatar Aang and his iteration of Team Avatar—consisting of siblings Katara and Sokka, earthbender Toph Beifong, Prince Zuko, and Kyoshi warrior Suki—from the mothership sequence, however as younger adults. The The movie will probably be produced by DiMartino and Konietzko, together with Korra producer Eric Coleman, and directed by Avatar alum Lauren Montgomery.

Notably, within the video above, Varney is studying a replica of the younger grownup novel, Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee. A movie targeted on her, together with one starring fellow fan favourite Avatar Korra, have been rumored to be rounding out the Avatar movie trilogy earlier this yr. Nickelodeon might simply be having some enjoyable, but it surely might additionally function a gentle admission of the following two movies within the pipeline.

At this time, no plot particulars on the primary Avatar movie got, and it’s not even clear who from the unique forged will return. Zuko and Sokka’s respective voice actors, Dante Basco and Jack De Sena, have been part of the panel, however stated nothing about their involvement. Details concerning the movie and its two observe ups will come within the close to future. For now, we’ve bought this information and the lately launched novel for Avatar Yangchen to tide us over till the following massive replace about this revival.

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