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The Last Airbender
2010
Jul 1, 2010 · The Last Airbender: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Jackson Rathbone. Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
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- Action, Adventure, Family
- M. Night Shyamalan
- 2010-07-01
The Last Airbender is a 2010 American action adventure fantasy film written, co-produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It is based on Book One: Water, the first season of the 2005–08 animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.
- M. Night Shyamalan
Jul 1, 2010 · A critical and commercial flop based on the popular animated series, The Last Airbender suffers from incoherent plotting, horrible acting, and detached direction. Read the reviews, watch the trailer, and find out where to rent or buy the movie online.
- (15K)
- M. Night Shyamalan
- PG
- Noah Ringer
- All four elements realigned to make this live-action adaptation a reality.
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- Gordon Cormier as Aang
- Kiawentiio as Katara
- Ian Ousley as Sokka
- Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai
- Dallas Liu as Zuko
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By Katie Reul
Posted: Feb 4, 2024 5:45 pm
When news first broke in 2018 that a live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender was in the works at Netflix, fans of the original animated series found themselves understandably divided.
On one hand, all four elements had magically realigned to bring about a fresh take on the Primetime Emmy winning show. Plus, Netflix's successful debut of One Piece bode well for the streamer's ability to reimagine beloved animes into live-action adaptations.
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Look no further than M. Night Shyamalan's ill-fated attempt at adapting the animated series into a feature film. 2010's The Last Airbender was based on the first season of the Nickelodeon show, and in spite of the popularity of its source material, the movie was poorly received by audiences. For perspective, the film is sitting at a devastatingly unimpressive five percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with an audience score of 30%.
Now, less than a month out from the release of a second attempt at adapting Avatar: The Last Airbender for live-action, all eyes are on Netflix to get it right. Otherwise, the streaming platform is going to receive a whole lot worse than Zuko's wrath from the original series' loyal fanbase.
Here's everything we know so far about the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender series coming to Netflix.
The live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres globally Feb. 22, 2024.
The pilot season consists of eight, hour-long episodes. All eight episodes will be available to stream on Netflix when the series debuts Feb. 22.
The full trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender was released Jan. 23, and it's nothing short of a two-minute spectacle that the producers felt the need to dive into further. Most notably, fans get an up-close look at the series' dazzling special effects that take bending to the next level. The preview also shows off fan-favorite minor characters like June and Jet, who had previously only been seen in a series of first-look images that Netflix unveiled in late December.
"YIP YIP!" Netflix captioned a post on X/Twitter celebrating the trailer's debut. "The Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer is HERE!"
The official trailer arrived about two and a half months after the debut of the initial teaser for the live-action adaptation, which was released Nov. 9 at Netflix's Geeked Week. With a runtime of one minute and 39 seconds, the teaser trailer offers additional glimpses at the members of the main cast in full regalia.
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Cormier stars as Aang, the Avatar incarnate and master of all four elements, in this live-action adaptation of the hit television show. The 14-year-old actor is best known for his recurring role on The Stand, a Paramount+ original mini series.
Cormier's character, Aang, is best characterized by his playful spirit and youthful awkwardness — traits that keep him down to Earth despite the fact he possesses several lifetimes of knowledge. And if there's one thing that's clear from Cormier's interviews with the press, it's that the child actor has no issue channeling these same attributes, oftentimes without even realizing.
"'I think the airbender genocide is really cool… Well, no! No! Not like that,' Cormier says, quickly correcting himself," journalist Nick Romano wrote in a Jan. 29 article for Entertainment Weekly. In the interview, Cormier continued, "I mean, yeah, my whole family's dead, of course. It's not a good thing, but watching it is going to be sick!"
"(He means for the airbending effects.)," Romano clarified immediately after the quote.
Kiawentiio plays Katara, the last of the water benders among the Southern Water Tribe. With the help of her brother Sokka, the two take Aang under their wing on his journey to master the elements and defeat Fire Lord Ozai.
Born on the Akwesasne reserve that straddles the Canada-U.S. border, Kiawentiio is a member of the Mohawk Nation. Prior to her work on Avatar: The Last Airbender, she played Ka'kwet, a young Indigenous Canadian featured throughout Season 3 of Anne with an E. Most recently, Kiawentiio voiced Wáhta, a young Mohawk boy, in an episode of Marvel's What If...
In an interview with IGN, showrunner Albert Kim revealed that the adaptation will be taking a slightly different approach to Katara's portrayal — making decisions that "aren't really changing a character as so much as updating them a little bit."
"There are certain roles I think that Katara did in the cartoon that we didn't necessarily also do here," Kim told IGN. "I mean, I don't want to really get into a lot of that, but some gender issues that didn't quite translate from the cartoon."
Ian Ousley closes out the main trio as Sokka — an accident-prone character whose over-confidence and quotable one-liners provide comic relief throughout the original series.
Like his co-star, Ousley also got a makeover for the part. "Haircut day," as he called it, was one of his favorite memories from shooting, according to an article from the Tudum website, because the cast "really got to transform into the characters for the first time." "That day was a little easier for some than others," the actor joked.
The character is well-loved because of his deadpan humor, but as Ousley and Kiawentiio pointed out in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, those jokes are sometimes mysoginistic at the onset of the original series. A major adjustment to Sokka's attitude toward women can be expected in the upcoming live-action adaptation.
I feel like we also took out the element of how sexist [Sokka] was... I feel like there were a lot of moments in the original show that were iffy
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"I feel like we also took out the element of how sexist [Sokka] was," Kiawentiio told Entertainment Weekly, reflecting on how each of the characters have changed in the new series. "I feel like there were a lot of moments in the original show that were iffy," Kiawentiio said.
Daniel Dae Kim is no stranger to the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe. Having voiced General Fong in the original show and Asami's dad in The Legend of Korra, it's no surprise he was the top pick to play Fire Lord Ozai, the formidable villain of the Avatar series.
"He's deliciously a villain, and that's what I sank my teeth into," Kim said in an interview for an Entertainment Weekly cover story. "That's one of the things that I was really looking forward to doing. He reminded me of the Darth Vader of this show."
Dallas Liu will bring the heat as Zuko, Prince of the Fire Nation and son of Fire Lord Ozai. The teenage firebender is obsessed with capturing the Avatar to prove himself as rightful heir to the throne. Zuko is scarred in more ways than one; he has a tendency to explode in a fit of anger that can only be tamed by the stubborn kindness of his Uncle Iroh.
Before securing a part in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Liu held a recurring role on Hulu's PEN15 and appeared in 2021's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Netflix is adapting the animated show into a live-action series with eight episodes premiering Feb. 22, 2024. Learn about the cast, trailer, story, and more of the Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series.
About this movie. arrow_forward. Experience the thrilling live-action adventure based on the hit Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Join Aang, an extraordinary boy with incredible "bending" powers, as he journeys through an exotic land filled with magical creatures and powerful friends.
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