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welcome back everyone is Charlie this is going to be my new Avatar The Last
Airbender Netflix video a lot of you been asking for updates on the series
what are they going to start casting it when are we going to get episodes they've
been a lot of different reports about when the series is actually going to
premiere so we'll break it all down if you're new to my channel be sure to
subscribe to get all the avatar last airbender videos I will be doing videos
for the series and bonus videos before it premieres because it will be a little
while before we actually see episodes there were a lot of people earlier when
I announced that I was doing a new video that were confused so if you don't know
what's going on Netflix is doing a new Avatar The Last Airbender series it's
going to be a retelling of the original animated series on Nickelodeon the
original creators are the ones that are behind it Bryan Konietzko and Michael
Dante DiMartino they're working with Nickelodeon and in partnership with
Netflix so it's not like Netflix bought all of Avatar The Last Airbender they
haven't made the original series available on Netflix yet but I believe
that they'll do that before they premiere the live-action series just to
get people ready in case they haven't watched it in a while although if you do
live outside the United States I believe there are some countries where the
animated series is available on Netflix right now the original series was
half-hour animation the new series is going to be live-action hour-long drama
so obviously the story's going to change a little bit but they did say they would
be expanding on the story of the original series so the idea is that
Netflix typically does 8 to 13 episodes like The Witcher Netflix series is only
going to be 8 episodes because they're spending more money per episode stranger
things especially with the younger cast like we're going to have a younger cast
with the live-action Avatar The Last Airbender typically eight episodes so
don't be surprised that they only do eight to ten episodes for the first
season of Avatar The Last Airbender on Netflix when they say they're going
deeper on the characters they just mean spending more time more scenes more
dialogue with each of the separate team avatar characters more character
development not them burning through the story faster and faster because the
original was only three books long 61 episodes if they just did hour-long
episodes and did the exact same story as the animated series they would be done
with it in three seasons I know everybody's kind of worried about the
Netflix curse the supposed idea that Netflix will cancel a series after two
or three seasons no matter how good it is but the good thing in all this is
that because Disney is now setting up Disney Plus and
pulling all of its content from Netflix Netflix needs its Disney
programming in Avatar The Last Airbender is just one of those type of programs
they can turn it into their own Game of Thrones if they want to spend enough
money on it which it sounds like they do that's why it's been more than a year
since they officially announced the project with this first teaser image of
APPA in the synopsis of the series in haven't given you any really meaningful
huge updates other than to say that casting will be open pretty soon a lot
of that early development time has been figuring out how they're going to get the
bending right because it's going to have to be very special effects heavy and nobody
involved with the project and none of the fans wanted to look anything like
the live-action avatar the last airbender movie so just because they've
been really quiet about it recently doesn't mean anything bad it just means
they've been trying to nail the story they've been in the writers room for a
while now brining the scripts the actress that played Toph in the original
series gave a great interview recently after she met with them talking about
what they were saying about the new series when casting would happen what
their plans were shooting it were where that would all happen this comes from
the beyond bending podcast so here's that clip people had you know started
sending me articles being like hey are you going to be part of it so I was like
okay so this is the thing that's happening so I reached out to Mike and
Bryan I came to Los Angeles in May just for a little bit a couple days and then
I was like hey can I get lunch with you guys it's been a while huh and just like
want to pick your brain so they're much more involved with the live-action this
this live-action uh-huh and I just wanted to hear you know what their
thoughts were and they were on the fence Nickelodeon was on the fence about
partnering Netflix a lot of things kind of had to be arranged and it was a bit
crazy apparently but finally got settled they are scouting places you know up in
Canada for shooting and I asked like are you fasting soon and were you casting
what's happening and they trying to keep it as true to kind of
location in the animated series for real-life so they're focusing on
different sectors of you know northern Asia and then like Southeast Asia for
like the Earth's tribe in the Fire Nation they're trying to like
appropriately space it's cool and I was like you know are you going to happen in
Los Angeles they're like we're trying to do like a nation flash worldwide search
and try to make it as available as possible to anybody in anybody that
wants to send in a video and audition whatever and because we want to find the
right people we don't just want to find somebody's cousin who happens to know
the producer or whatever right they they want to find people who are really
represent these characters which i thought was cool
and a lot of people have been messaging me being like how do I send in something
like they're far from that point they'll probably cast like maybe mid-fall
earliest and then start filming like next spring so there's a long timeline
for things but point is is they're going to make it accessible to anyone that
will be very public about it whenever they do start so yeah it's just it's
cool they're going to be very open about it I think in like a lot more public
because they know that the movie was so like an that they want people to be on
board for this yeah so it was cool and they're both doing well and they're
excited it's like be back and like working on the projects in and with all
like the CGI technology just in the last 10 years it's gotten so so much better I
mean they're doing all sorts of stuff with various green screens and they're
creating models and doing I mean it's because you know this world is so
involved and kind of magical you know for flippered penguins and flying things
you know just like a lot of lot of detail so that's why it's going to take a
second to get started understandably but yeah I'm excited for it just after
talking to them because I think they wanted to be as good as as we do so
basically what she's saying is is that they're going to start casting really soon
either at the end of this year early next year and they will start actually
shooting the series till next spring meaning that if everything goes well
they probably won't premiere till at least early 2021 there were people
around the world that saw Netflix pages that they had erected for the new series
that listed 2020 is the release date and I think that that was something that
they put there a couple of years ago without really
knowing exactly how things would go down if you do want a chance to be cast in
the new avatar series though they did say that they would be going
international with their casting process and they would let people submit tapes
but Bryan Konietzko specifically said they would announce when that was going
to start because typically they don't start casting characters till right
before they need them and they won't start shooting till the spring so it's
still going to be a while before you can actually have a chance to send your tape
in if you really want a chance to star in the new series she said they're
mostly scouting locations to shoot the series in Canada Vancouver and Toronto
are the two major filming hubs for the industry with a lot of support because a
lot of their scenes will have to be shot inside a studio against green screen for
all the special effects or for the interiors of big buildings when she
talks about all the special effects and green-screen
testing that they're doing funny coincidence I did a video about some
test footage that leaked a little while ago there was a special effects house
that was competing for a bid with Netflix to work on the new avatar series
some of their test footage leaked out I did a video about it it's still on my
channel but the producers of that project contacted me and made me change
some of the video to remove some of their content they were really pissed
off about it Jeremy Zuckerman already confirmed that he's coming back to do
music for the new series I think it'll be a version of the music from the
original series just expanded because you're going from half-hour animation to
hour-long drama I've already done a video about how they're trying to bring
back Dante Basco and find a role for him in the new live-action series obviously
he's not going to be Zuko he's way too old for that now but he's not quite old
enough for uncle Iroh maybe he'll wind up being cabbage man maybe he'll wind up
being a random person from the Fire Nation they also just scored another big
producer reportedly Dan Lin who's this big super producer Warner Brothers right
now did the lego movie the Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey jr. I
know a lot of you were disappointed that people like Giancarlo Volpe and Aaron
AHA's aren't going to be involved with the new series but both of them have
talked about what Bryan and Mike have shown them from the pre-production and
all the development stuff they were really happy with everything that they
saw so pretty much everybody that has got an early behind-the-scenes look at
this new series has been really hyped up about it
speaking of Aaron AHA's I actually just did a video recently about the planned
Avatar The Last Airbender Season 4 story that he said he had for Azula he
detailed this big breakdown of what he was going to do with her character so I'll
link that video at the end of this I know you still have a thousand questions
about what's going on with the new avatar series if there's any big bonus
videos that you guys want me to do I'll continue to do avatar bonus videos as we
get more details about the new series everyone click here for that new avatar
the last airbender season 4 video and click here for my brand new
Rick and Morty Morty season 4 trailer video. thank you so much for watching everybody stay
awesome I'll see you guys tonight!