Nickelodeon and Paramount have announced that three new animated films based on the wildly successful 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' are in development.
Since the franchise’s inception, the Avatar franchise has been met with praise from audiences and critics alike. Avatar Studios, Nickelodeon’s production company in charge of all things Avatar, will release three more animated Avatar films in the future. The franchise was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko in the Nickelodeon series called Avatar: The Last Airbender.
The action-full and adventure-led series first aired in 2005 and ended in 2008. Drawing inspiration from Japanese anime, DiMartino and Konietzko created the Emmy Award-winning series centered on a young boy named Aang, the chosen Avatar, and his friends – Katara, Sokka, and Toph, who help the young Airbender save the nations of their world from the Fire Nation’s wrath. In this world, four elements – water, fire, earth, and air – are controlled by a chosen few.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY A much-maligned film adaptation of the wildly successful Avatar: The Last Airbender was released in 2010, with the series' first season serving as the basis of the live-action movie called The Last Airbender. Over a decade after the first film treatment, three new animated films are slated to be released from Avatar Studios.
Ramsey Naito, the President of Animation & Development at Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, commented on the exciting new adventure, “As original creators Mike and Bryan expand the Avatar universe with us, we’re keeping it all in the family with Lauren bringing the same kind of expert, beautiful work she did on the original series to her new directing duties on the forthcoming theatrical.
With three films set to release in the coming years, and a separate live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series in development at Netflix – though neither Konietzko nor DiMartino are connected with the project – fans of the Avatar franchise are in for lots and lots of content in the coming years.