After a long wait, we finally have a first teaser for Netflix's "live-action reimagining" of Avatar: The Last Airbender, in addition to a release date: Feb. 22, 2024.
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The teaser, released Thursday as part of Netflix's Geeked Week, is no doubt the beefiest look we've gotten at the adaptation since it was first announced all the way back in 2018. It's a brief but actually pretty epic look, focusing on the sweeping visuals and VFX while showing quick glimpses of our main characters. And I've gotta point it out: Ba Sing Se looks pretty dang cool so far.
We also get some looks at the Fire Nation, a tease at the romance between Sokka and Suki, and well, just a bunch of cool bending.
And of course, the star of the show: Appa. It ends with Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Momo (who's also looking very cute) flying valiantly on the sky bison's back. Take a look at more in the screenshots below.
Most recently, Netflix released some first-look images of members of the Fire Nation, after showing a short title reveal and photos of the core cast at TUDUM in July.
The show will star Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Zuko, Elizabeth Yu as Azula, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Iroh, and Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai. It won't, however, have the original creators of the animated series, as Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko left the project in 2020.
As Netflix's synopsis reads, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender will follow Aang "as he learns to master the four elements (Water, Earth, Fire, Air) to restore balance to a world threatened by the terrifying Fire Nation." Netflix hasn't revealed too much about how closely it will stick to Nickelodeon's beloved original, or how much of it we'll see in Season 1. If it's anything like Netflix's One Piece, however, which adapted the first arc of the manga, we should expect to see the events of the animated series' first season.
In the meantime, we're just really hoping this goes a lot better than M. Night Shyamalan's live-action ATLA film.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
