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you guys are not gonna believe this team avatar is back hey everybody is Charlie
this is not a drill team avatar is back and I'm not talking about Legend of
Korra I'm not talking about a new series set in the future I'm talking about a
new avatar the last airbender Aang's series coming to Netflix in the next
couple of years they even released this first teaser so this is just a confirmed
that this is going to be young Aang they don't want you to be confused and think
that they're going to be doing adult Aang after the events of the original
series they just announced it so I'll explain what's going on but it is time
to officially freak out it's been at least a couple years since I've done an
avatar video so if you're new to the channel because of this video be sure to
subscribe to get all the videos of course I will do episode videos when it
gets here so a lot of you have been hearing the news from various sources
I'll explain what's exactly going on Mike and Bryan are back they're gonna be
show running the new series together so team break is back important detail to
Jeremy Zuckerman the person that did all the music for avatar the last airbender
and for a legend of korra he's coming back to do the music for this new avatar
revival series so in real life team avatar is also back now they didn't say
when the release date is going to be they just announced that Mike and Bryan
are on board it's going to be a live-action revival series meaning that
what they might do is just retell the original story doing it live action
effectively wiping the abomination that was that live-action last airbender
movie off the map if you haven't already we can just forget that that existed
right now there are a lot of people that were confused too people thought that
they were actually just doing that no that is not what's happening imagine
when they made the Avatar movie several years ago imagine if Mike and Bryan had
been doing that and they had done it the right way they haven't announced to the
cast is yet but this is a statement that they both released were thrilled for the
opportunity to helm this live-action adaptation of Avatar The Last Airbender
we can't wait to realize Aang's world as cinematically as we always imagined it
to be and with a culturally appropriate non-white wash cast it's a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to build upon everyone's great work
the original animated series and go even deeper into the character's story action
and world building Netflix is wholly dedicated to manifesting our vision for
this retelling and were incredibly grateful to be partnering with them so a
lot of you probably know about the different comic book series that they've
released which sort of add to the story after the events of Sozin's comet in
the season 3 finale so what happened is is the original series was always
planned to be 3 seasons they did about 20 episodes give or take and it
was just meant to be this adventure series in the vein of the original
Dragon Ball series you know people traveling around the world solving this
big problem in this really incredible mythology so that wasn't canceled by
Nickelodeon they always planned on doing that number of episodes so it was done
they went on they did some comic books eventually a Nickelodeon came back to
them and said you know what we need more of this do you have any more ideas
within the Avatar universe that's why they did the Korra sequel series so
they're like okay well we know we don't want to do Aang again but we do have
this idea for another avatar set in the future it was the same situation with
the Korra series they had a set amount of story that they wanted to tell once
they finished with book 4 that was all they wanted to do so that's why the
series ended it wasn't canceled by Nickelodeon they just announced a new
Korra comic book series which continues that story is the same thing that they
did with the Avatar series so within this news release though they do
specifically say retelling of that original avatar story so because a lot
of Netflix series are say 10 to 13 episodes what they might do is because
special effects have just gotten really good an avatar would be a very special
effects driven TV show just because of the way they use their powers what they
might do is just break the story up into five to seven seasons because the
original series was about 20 episodes per season they obviously could break
this up into halves so think about it this way the first season might just be
the first half of book 1 where they have to go to the fire temple by the winter
solstice to learn from Avatar Roku about sozin's comet that was the whole
first big arc and comes out of the ice they're being chased down by the Fire
Nation and by Zuko separately they learn from King Bumi that they have to make it
to avatar Roku's temple learn about sozin's comet by the winter
solstice or they won't get the information that they need that was sort
of them setting up the rest of the entire series every single episode what
the stakes were thousands comet is coming you have to defeat him before
that happens because once the comet comes he'll be effectively invincible so
in order to be able to fully actualize as the avatar aang had to go around and
learn about all the different bending styles so season two of this new series
might be him going to the northern water temple to learn waterbending from the
Masters so they sort of did that for that last live-action movie imagine a
completely different version of that that was them condensing 20 episodes
effectively into a two-hour movie imagine them doing all those episodes
again slightly different but the same basic story so like you would still do
the Blue Spirit you would still do stuff like the fortune teller but it might not
play down the exact same way I don't think it's gonna be copy-paste scripts
from the original episodes for those of you that are worried that they won't be
able to pull this off in live-action just keep in mind that every year that
goes by special effects get better and better so the stuff that you see in the
big movies like the big Marvel movies all those crazy effects it gets super
easy to do those within a couple years of those movies coming out so by the
time the series gets here they'll be able to do infinity war level effects on
a TV level netflix budget and because netflix is so worried about Disney
pulling all of its content off of Netflix and Warner Brothers and all the
other studios that is why it's overspending on a lot of these big epic
series it's begging on these being super popular so people will want to stay with
Netflix to get this stuff but I think the real key here is isn't getting the
original creative Mike and Bryan if it weren't Mike and Bryan doing it then I
would say maybe there's cause for concern but because it's basically the
entire original avatar series team coming back to do this I think we're
pretty safe it's not gonna be a live-action Dragon Ball situation it's
not gonna be a live-action Fullmetal Alchemist situation do not worry about
that kind of stuff what's probably going to happen is is right now because they just
announced it they're probably blocking what the story
is going to be how they're gonna break the episodes up then they'll convene a
writers room they'll start writing the episodes then they'll start casting the
beauty this is is that they seem like they're
gonna be pretty open about the process because it's been so long and they want
fans to come back like hey remember you loved avatar so much we're doing that
again please come back and watch it Sifu ki soo probably gonna come back and
help advise them on their martial arts if you don't remember Sifu casue was the
person that helped them develop the styles of bending and the martial arts
that they would use during the series and during Korra they haven't announced
where they're going to film it I assume it's gonna be somewhere in Europe or
East Asia or New Zealand somewhere that looks like the world of Avatar because I
don't think it's a big problem in terms of locations or getting the actors that
they want Netflix wants this to be as good as it can be so whatever you have
in your mind is a really awesome a live-action version they're probably
gonna get pretty close to that so they make it say like five six seven seasons
who knows maybe they'll also do a live-action Korra series after that I
think it just depends on how things go the first couple of seasons with this
but they'll just keep doing this as long as people keep watching so if you want
to support it it's gonna be a couple years before the episodes actually get
here but right now the original avatar series isn't available for streaming
pretty much anywhere the only way you can get it is the occasional reruns on
Nickelodeon site buying it on iTunes I do think that they have the 1080p
remasters on iTunes they just did the complete avatar series blu-ray release
they also did the same thing for Korra so you can go out to Best Buy or pretty
much any store that sells blu-rays and get those right now and they are
remasters they did tune everything up for 1080p on the original series so it
looks way way better a lot of you been asking me about that new Dragon Prince
series because a lot of the people that worked on Avatar The Last Airbender and
Korra are working on that series even though it's not connected to avatar
there are a lot of Easter eggs for that like remember during the ember island
players episode Zuko says my mother used to take me to
see them they butchered love amongst the Dragons every year because the person
that wrote the ember island players episode wrote this episode of the dragon
prince you actually see this girl reading that book love amongst the
Dragons but just to be clear that's completely separate from the Avatar
series let me know in the comments though how do you want them to break up
and we tell the original Avatar The Last
Airbender series in live-action do you think that they'll just break it up in
the first season will be them going to see Avatar Roku to learn about Susan's
comment and then they'll just do that same thing for book 1 book 2 and book 3
because within their news release Mike and Bryan did say that they're going
deeper on all the characters than they did in the original series so I'm just
interested to see how this is all going to break down but no worries it's
probably not going to shoot til next year sometime meaning that we wouldn't
see the episodes to the year after that so it'll probably be here 2020 before we
get those episodes no worries but click here to rewatch that big Captain Marvel
trailer from yesterday a billion more times and click here to learn about the
Avengers TV series that they just announced
it's crazy thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome I'll see
you guys tonight!