![]() I try not to have extreme fan-girl takes on things but I can tell you I am now ZERO percent interested in whatever live-action AVATAR nonsense it is Netflix is trying to make. #Avatar last bender live actio. series#But when Netflix announced the live-action series adaptation in 2018, many fans were curious and excited to see what a faithful adaptation of the show could accomplish - especially with the creators’ involvement, unlike the hands-off approach DiMartino and Konietzko took with Shyamalan’s film. The fate of the film might have decisively ended any attempts to turn the animated Airbender into a live-action anything. It also left a stain on Airbender’s legacy, turning off newcomers and longtime fans alike. When it was released in June of 2010, Shyamalan’s finished product turned out to be a giant artistic embarrassment, a critically panned and high-profile flop that significantly tarnished the director’s career. Fans staged protests lasting well over a year due to the film’s muddying of the careful cultural origins of the show’s original world-building and its casting of white actors in ethnic roles - a practice that became known as racebending. Night Shyamalan, the film had one of the most toxic, embattled, and notorious productions in recent memory. The most infamous of these is Paramount’s disastrous live-action film adaptation. But over the years, the Peabody award-winning show has had its setbacks. People who love Airbender really, really love Airbender. And with a pre-planned, three-season story arc, it got to deeply invest in both its world-building and characters over time, allowing it to evolve organically to a deeply satisfying conclusion. In addition to carefully avoiding harmful Orientalist tropes, the show took pains to depict its various cultural allegories as distinct. Set in a fantasy world mainly based on Asian cultures, Airbender was acclaimed for its sensitive multicultural storytelling, which revolved around a team of “benders” - people who can manipulate the four elements - using their powers to stop an aggressive, militarized nation from its violent conquest of neighboring countries. Over its beloved three-season run, Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–08) became a true game-changer. Netflix’s highly anticipated live-action Airbender reboot was supposed to wipe away the sour taste of a notorious flop It’s certainly not the first time the franchise has found itself in a precarious position when live-action is involved. It also leaves the fate of the live-action series upended in a way that’s distressingly familiar to Avatar fans. That timing makes the announcement of DiMartino and Konietzko’s departure from the live-action series all the more curious - despite Netflix offering a home for the franchise, Airbender’s future with the streaming platform is now under new scrutiny. The Netflix debut has seemingly affirmed the show’s popularity while introducing it to wide swaths of new fans.Īirbender’s follow-up, Legend of Korra, also arrives on the platform later this week. ![]() The recent release of Airbender on the platform - making it more accessible to viewers than it has been in years - saw the show trending in the Netflix Top 10 list for weeks. More surprising is that Netflix has been enjoying tremendous success with the Avatar community this year. It’s rare for Netflix to have such a public breakup with the creators of one of their high-profile productions, let alone creators whose names are synonymous with the beloved, well-established franchise the project is part of. Despite its brief run, which ended more than a decade ago, Avatar fans remain loyal - and that Netflix had gotten the series’ creators involved seemed to give them confidence in the project. ![]() This comes almost two years after Netflix announced the live-action reboot of the series, eliciting a huge response. Although they have chosen to depart the live action project, we are confident in the creative team and their adaptation.”īoth creators described the move as “a difficult decision” but stated they’d lost confidence that Netflix would honor their vision for the show. “We have complete respect and admiration for Michael and Bryan and the story that they created in the Avatar animated series. Netflix responded in an emailed statement, noting that the production would continue with Nickelodeon still attached. “I realized I couldn’t control the creative direction of the series, but I could control how I responded,” DiMartino added on his own website. he general handling of the project created what I felt was a negative and unsupportive environment.” ![]() Unfortunately, there was no follow-through on that promise. “When Netflix brought me on board to run this series alongside Mike two years ago,” Konietzko wrote in his Instagram post, “they made a very public promise to support our vision. Legend of Korra’s messy, complicated legacy ![]()
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