Gordon Corimer, who recently appeared as Joe on CBS’ The Stand, will play Aang, the 12-year-old Avatar unfrozen from a block of ice and sent on a mission to save the world. Not just in a cartoon, but in a world that truly exists, very similar to the one we live in.” The show makes good on the mission statement with its core casting.įour key roles have already been cast for the production. This was a chance to showcase Asian and Indigenous characters as living, breathing people. As Lim laid out in a blog post for Netflix, “a live-action version would establish a new benchmark in representation and bring in a whole new generation of fans. That direction seems to have been for the casting and creative team of the live-action series to better reflect the racial and ethnic backgrounds of the characters as represented in the animated series. Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, creators of the original series, were set to reprise their roles on the new adaptation, but departed the series in August 2020, saying that they “would not be able to meaningfully guide the direction of the series.” (The duo are now working on several animated Avatar projects for Nickelodeon.) Goi, Jabbar Raisani ( Lost in Space), and Roseanne Liang ( Shadow in the Cloud) will direct the series, with Liang also serving as a co-executive producer.
Spearheading Avatar: The Last Airbender are showrunner Albert Kim ( Sleepy Hollow, Nikita) and executive producers Dan Lin ( The Lego Movie), Lindsey Liberatore (CW’s Walker), and Michael Goi ( Swamp Thing).
On Thursday, the streamer revealed the first wave of casting for the tentpole series, along with the creative team bringing it to life. Though it’s been years since Netflix announced plans to adapt Avatar: The Last Airbender into a live-action series, someone has finally mastered the elements enough to bend the show into existence.