‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Franchise To Expand With Launch Of Nickelodeon’s Avatar Studios

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‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Franchise To Expand With Launch Of Nickelodeon’s Avatar Studios, Animated Theatrical Film In The Works

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The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise is set to get even bigger.

Nickelodeon is launching Avatar Studios, a division designed to create original content spanning animated series and movies based on the franchise’s world.

The original creators and executive producers Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will run the studio as co-chief creative officers, reporting to Ramsey Naito, President, Nickelodeon Animation.

Avatar Studios will produce content for platforms including Paramount+ and Nickelodeon as well as third-party platforms and theatrical releases.

The first project is an animated theatrical film that is set to start production later this year.






Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, which follows the adventures of the main protagonist Aang and his friends, who must save the world by defeating Fire Lord Ozai and ending the destructive war with the Fire Nation, aired for three seasons between 2005 and 2008.

It was followed by The Legend of Korra, which launched on Nickelodeon in 2012 and ran for four seasons.

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The property has subsequently been translated into a ongoing graphic novel series written by TV series co-creator DiMartino, a live-action feature film starring Dev Patel and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and Netflix is making a live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series, albeit without the involvement of Dante DiMartino and Konietzko.

“Avatar: The Last Airbender and Korra have grown at least ten-fold in popularity since their original hit runs on Nickelodeon, and Ramsey Naito and I are incredibly excited to have Mike and Bryan’s genius talent on board to helm a studio devoted to expanding their characters and world into new content and formats for fans everywhere,” said Brian Robbins, President, ViacomCBS Kids & Family.

“Creator-driven stories and characters have long been the hallmarks of Nickelodeon, and Avatar Studios is a way to give Mike and Bryan the resources and runway to open up their imaginations even more and dive deeper into the action and mythology of Avatar as we simultaneously expand upon that world and the world of content available on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon,” he added.

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So it looks like there's going to be an animated Avatar movie to start production this year, and then a series sometime after that. Could be cool, and I'm not the type to complain about nostalgia


Curious to see what time period the stuff will be set in. Could be anywhere from long before Aang was born to sometime after Korra. Personally I think an adult Aang would be interesting.

 

[42 Monks]

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Good to hear

The animation on Korra was piff, can only imagine what they can do years later and with a movie budget

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ To Expand With Launch Of Avatar Studios – Deadline

So it looks like there's going to be an animated Avatar movie to start production this year, and then a series sometime after that. Could be cool, and I'm not the type to complain about nostalgia


Curious to see what time period the stuff will be set in. Could be anywhere from long before Aang was born to sometime after Korra. Personally I think an adult Aang would be interesting.

Avatar Kyoshi

 

[MenacingMonk]

Let it take place between TLA and Korra. Please stay away from Korraverse.

 

[acri1]

Let it take place between TLA and Korra. Please stay away from Korraverse.

there's nothing wrong with Korra

Adult Aang and co. would be cool, but I wouldn't really be mad if they did something that took place after the end of Korra (or even about the Avatar after Korra, which would be an Earthbender).


Personally I think they should just do an Avatar Anthology series where they could jump around the timeline and tell different stories.

 

[MenacingMonk]

there's nothing wrong with Korra

Adult Aang and co. would be cool, but I wouldn't really be mad if they did something that took place after the end of Korra (or even about the Avatar after Korra, which would be an Earthbender).


Personally I think they should just do an Avatar Anthology series where they could jump around the timeline and tell different stories.

It’s not bad, but not touching TLA. TLA characters are much better than Korra’s.

 

[nieman]

It’s not bad, but not touching TLA. TLA characters are much better than Korra’s.

I think it's pretty even. The main characters of TLA are better, but the secondary/tertiary characters in Korra were better.

 

[Kooley_High]

They should make the TLA comic books tie ins now. They were actually pretty good. Idk why it took nick so long to push out more avatar content, its been a pretty reliable fanbase.

 

[Json]

They should make the TLA comic books tie ins now. They were actually pretty good. Idk why it took nick so long to push out more avatar content, its been a pretty reliable fanbase.

Considering how badly Nick did both series I’m still a bit worried.

 

[goatmane]

time to see Avatar Aang in his prime

 

[winb83]

This is the best thing to come out of Paramount+ really. Nick and ViacomCBS deciding to expand Avatar. I mean the Dragon Prince was nice but it's no Avatar. I want a new series with a new cast. If they bring Aang back let it be movies only.

 

[kingdarius]

i do not give a single shyt about Aang and co. unless they older. Korra gave me that real shyt so i cant go back to jackie chan style defensive battles. Drop bodies or dont bother.

 

[Luken]

there's nothing wrong with Korra

Adult Aang and co. would be cool, but I wouldn't really be mad if they did something that took place after the end of Korra (or even about the Avatar after Korra, which would be an Earthbender).


Personally I think they should just do an Avatar Anthology series where they could jump around the timeline and tell different stories.

big titty Korra