After the success of Netflix’s “One Piece” in live-action kind, followers of the “Avatar: The Final Airbender” franchise are hoping Netflix’s upcoming live-action tackle their animated sequence will attain the identical heights.
Typically thought-about top-of-the-line titles to come back out of Nickelodeon, it had a serialized story throughout its three seasons. Nevertheless, that first season was additionally practically half-filled with loads of standalone episodic adventures.
That gained’t be the case with the Netflix sequence with showrunner Albert Kim explaining to SFX Journal that the live-action sequence is avoiding the “journey of the week” format for a extra serialized take.
The result’s a “remix” of the occasions seen within the animated authentic in an effort to higher match them right into a cohesive storyline, resembling Azula being extra fleshed out than she was within the cartoon’s early days. Kim explains:
“All of us knew that there have been issues we needed to vary, however not only for the sake of change. There needed to be a purpose for the change.
We don’t begin the present the best way the animated sequence begins. That was a acutely aware choice to point out folks this isn’t the animated sequence.
We needed to typically unravel storylines and remix them in a brand new option to make sense for a serialized drama. So I’m very curious to see what’ll occur by way of response to that.”
The eight episode first season stars Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko, Elizabeth Yu as Azula, and Daniel Dae Kim as Fireplace Lord Ozai. The sequence will premiere on the service on February twenty second.