‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Creators, Director Talk New Art Style, Huge Action Sequences, Ideas That Didn’t Make Final Cut
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender.” Team Avatar is back! At long last, fans of “Avatar: The Last...
Key points
- SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender.” Team Avatar is back!
- At long last, fans of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” can (legally) watch the next onscreen adventure of Aang and his loyal friends, thanks to the release of “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” on Paramount+.
- Aang is well-established as the Avatar, but he is haunted by the fact that he is still the last airbender in the world.
- Bryan Konietzko: I might be an outlier, but — I still wanted to work in the “Avatar” world, but I wasn’t hungry to go back to the original characters because that was the story that Mike and I set out to tell, and we were lucky enough to be able to complete it.
What happened
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender.” Team Avatar is back! At long last, fans of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” can (legally) watch the next onscreen adventure of Aang and his loyal friends, thanks to the release of “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” on Paramount+. Aang is well-established as the Avatar, but he is haunted by the fact that he is still the last airbender in the world. Bryan Konietzko: I might be an outlier, but — I still wanted to work in the “Avatar” world, but I wasn’t hungry to go back to the original characters because that was the story that Mike and I set out to tell, and we were lucky enough to be able to complete it. He’s also the age that I was when Mike and I created “Avatar.” I was 25 going on 26, and so I had a lot of youthful enthusiasm, but I had a lot to learn about the world…We had this cool poster that Joaquim Dos Santos had drawn during “Korra” of the original Team Avatar all around that age, and I think all of us and a lot of fans just kind of wondered, like, “Wow, what would that be like?” Lauren Montgomery: These are the characters that you fell in love with…How are you going to tell another really...
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