Avatar: The Last Airbender Live-Action Netflix Show Announced -

[Grand Lunar]

https://io9.gizmodo.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-is-being-reborn-as-a-netflix-1829139229

Netflix just announced that they've ordered a live-action remake of Avatar, with Michale Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko overseeing the project.

With that in mind, it seems highly unlikely that this will be a disaster like the live-action movie. Adapting a full season of the show into a 2-2.5 hour movie properly was probably an impossible task, but if this is a standard netflix show with 10 forty minute episodes this would probably be the same length as the original series.

I'm intrigued, but not sure I would ever have asked for this. The original was so perfect that I don't think any remake could ever match it, and most of the show's style and action(the bending battles especially) are just better suited for animation. Should be interesting to see how it turns out though.

 

[Draza]

If it's on Neflix, then it will be most likely bad.

 

[RG 448]

Why do we keep trying to adapt anime into live action? That shit doesn’t translate.

 

[Grand Lunar]

Why do we keep trying to adapt anime into live action? That shit doesn’t translate.

The funniest thing about people mistakenly calling Avatar "anime" is that the series actually isn't very well liked in Japan, seemingly because most Japanese aren't too happy with the parallels between Imperial Japan and the Fire Nation. You have a point about this style not translating well though.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Glad they moved quick enough to catch that Shyamalan lightning in a bottle.

Given it's live action and on Netflix is it still aimed at kids or will Aang and Katara do some on screen bending?

 

[bemeas]

Probably a loophole to get around Nickelodeon owning the rights to anything animated in the series (or at least I think they own those). However it's Netflix so it will be terrible and have awful casting decisions. Though if by some miracle it's actually good, it could open up the way for a new animated series, I suppose.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Probably a loophole to get around Nickelodeon owning the rights to anything animated in the series (or at least I think they own those). However it's Netflix so it will be terrible and have awful casting decisions. Though if by some miracle it's actually good, it could open up the way for a new animated series, I suppose.

The last time Avatar got a new animated series, it managed to butt-fuck it's own mythology in Woke Wars style.
Can't things just... end anymore?

 

[d12]

I'm calling it now, either Katara or Toph will be cast with a black actress.

 

[Clop]

The last time Avatar got a new animated series, it managed to butt-fuck it's own mythology in Woke Wars style.
Can't things just... end anymore?

Judging by the past decade, you've got two choices:

1. everything you loved gets remade because everyone's out of ideas and the remakes will at least have a fair chance to be good

2. someone comes up with a new IP and a new tumblr fanbase is born, even more cancerous than the last

I'll take #1 any day.

 

[OhGoy]

The funniest thing about people mistakenly calling Avatar "anime" is that the series actually isn't very well liked in Japan, seemingly because most Japanese aren't too happy with the parallels between Imperial Japan and the Fire Nation.

i'm still gonna' call it anime

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

The last time Avatar got a new animated series, it managed to butt-fuck it's own mythology in Woke Wars style.
Can't things just... end anymore?

Korra was better than Last Airbender. But then I also thought Avatar mythology was always crap.

I'm calling it now, either Katara or Toph will be cast with a black actress.

Kinda dumb since Katara would be one of those rare roles where it would actually make sense to cast a native American but I have a feeling you're right.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Avatar is for spergs anyway.

 

[Muttnik]

If it's good, then hooray. If it's bad, then boy howdy I can't wait to compare it to the Shyamalan movie. If it's dark and edgy!111, even better. Crazyass Azula can burn all these fuckers to the ground.

 

[The Shadow]

Never seen the original (it came after I was too old for Nickelodeon) I just know it has a spergy, cringey fanbase.

I mean Doug Walker is a fan so...

 

[RG 448]

Avatar is for spergs anyway.

I watched a little of it, it isn’t the worst anime I’ve ever seen.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Never seen the original (it came after I was too old for Nickelodeon) I just know it has a spergy, cringey fanbase.

I mean Doug Walker is a fan so...

It's a very good kids' show but it's really overrated and most of the fanbase is terrible.

 

[kidatari]

years ago saw the cartoon show by accident. Nickaloden was running a marathon and I said what the heck. It was when Aang was looking for Appa and fell in love with the show and saw it to the end
Well written, each character had their own personality and animation was great, overall awesome show

Then live movie was coming, trailer looked awesome, was looking forward to it.
Then the film finally came out the reviews were pure garbage and didn;t bother

But with Netflix, they do great shows and films but they also crappy shows and films.
So, who knows.
Fan of the cartoon, I do hope its good

 

[Grand Lunar]

Probably a loophole to get around Nickelodeon owning the rights to anything animated in the series (or at least I think they own those). However it's Netflix so it will be terrible and have awful casting decisions. Though if by some miracle it's actually good, it could open up the way for a new animated series, I suppose.

The only Netflix originals that I've watched so far are Disenchantment and Insatiable. Disenchantment has good potential, even if the opening season took a while to get started, and Insatiable was terrible ultra-shock fodder but in the so-bad-it's-entertaining sort of way. Both had good production value, though I can't confirm what kind of per episode budget they needed to achieve that. In order to do a show like this well, they'd probably need a Game of Thrones tier budget, which seems like a big commitment for Netflix. Though, the much less successful Amazon Prime is giving it for a Lord of the Rings show, so it's not out of the question for Netflix to provide.

Korra was better than Last Airbender. But then I also thought Avatar mythology was always crap.


Kinda dumb since Katara would be one of those rare roles where it would actually make sense to cast a native American but I have a feeling you're right.

They already made a point of ensuring that they wouldn't repeat the "white washing" of the movie, so I'm guessing they'll try for accuracy with the water tribes this time and cast Inuit (or at least American Indian) actors for the roles. They'll probably have to compromise on the air nomads though, since they really should be mostly Tibetan but that might ruin sales in China. I'm guessing they'll settle for South Asian, or any nationality where bhuddism is prominent. If any character is made black, I think Guru Pathik might make the most sense because his appearance as Indian was already unique and seemingly unexplained in universe.

Originally I thought that the casting of Katara and Sokka in the movie was to maintain the blue eyes=water tribe motif, though that would be pointless since they didn't keep that up anywhere else (Aang has brown rather than gray, amber would be the closest they could get for the fire nation but since they cast them as Indian they mostly have dark brown). Personally I hope that they fix this with color contacts for the show version, or digital editing. Someone tested out the latter for Dany on Game of Thrones and it turned out pretty well.

 

[King Kobra]

No way they will keep Toph like She is in the cartoon

(imagine airing this jokes in "Current Year" )

 

[Flying_with_the_Penguins]

At least it can't be as bad as the Shyamalan movie right? right?