Paramount and Nickelodeon have announced that three new animated films are in development based on the “Avatar: The Last Airbender” franchise.
Lauren Montgomery is attached to direct the untitled first installment for Avatar Studios. Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino, who created the original series, will produce with Eric Coleman.
The original “Avatar: The Last Airbender” followed Aang (Zach Tyler Eisen), a young boy reawakening in a war-torn world of elemental magic to undertake a dangerous mystic quest.
That was followed up by “The Legend of Korra” which aired for four seasons between 2012-2014 and proved highly successful.
A 2010 live-action feature adaptation by M. Night Shyamalan fizzled, whilst a new live-action series is in the works at Netflix without the involvement of Konietzko and DiMartino.
These animated films however will have those original creators all over them, along with plenty of the same team who worked on the original.
Source: Deadline
