The much-awaited live-action version of Nickelodeon’s beloved animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is out! It tells the story of Aang (Gordon Cormier), a young boy who wields the power of the Avatar, a chosen one who can control the powers of fire, earth, water, and air.
So now you’re done with the first season you’re probably wondering: When will the next season drop? And how long will it take to make? Well, the creators have already spoken about this, so stay tuned.
What might happen in Avatar: The Last Airbender season two?
There were three seasons of the original Avatar animated series. The second one, titled “Book 2: Earth” introduced fan-favorite character Toph, a blind Earthbender who becomes a friend and mentor to Aang. It also established Azula, played in the live-action version by Elizabeth Yu, as a major threat.
It also gave a lot of character development to Zuko, who is played in the live-action version by Dallas Liu. Season two sees him try to pick out a redemptive path for himself after the events of the first season, which results in the episode “Zuko Alone,” widely considered one of the series’ best.
Season two also contains the beloved, very touching episode “Tales of Ba Bing Se” which no doubt lots of Avatar fans are really looking forward to seeing in live-action.
What have the creators said about season two?
The live-action Avatar has one problem that the cartoon version didn’t have: The actors are inevitably going to age between seasons.
“All three seasons of the animated series essentially take place in the course of one calendar year,” showrunner Albert Kim told Entertainment Weekly. “There was no way we could do that. So we had to design this first season, especially, to accommodate the possibility of some time elapsing between the first and the second season.”
One of the things they’ve done to make it a little easier on themselves is remove the “ticking clock” of Sozin’s Comet from the live-action show. “We removed that particular ticking clock from our show for now because we couldn’t know exactly how old our actors would be for the subsequent seasons,” Kim said.
Has a season two been greenlit?
People started talking about Avatar: The Last Airbender as soon as it came out, which is usually a fair indicator of whether a show will get a second season or not. (Although sadly, not always.)
And the numbers were there. Avatar shot to the top of Netflix’s charts and became a massive hit with 41.1 million views. Of course, Netflix does unfortunately have a nasty habit of cancelling shows before their time even if they are very popular… but good news! That’s not the case for Avatar.
On March 6 the show was renewed for not one but two more seasons, meaning it’ll run for the same amount of seasons the original animated show did. We don’t know when they’ll start filming, but according to Deadline, “The plan is to film these two seasons—Seasons 2 and 3—in close succession in order to mitigate the fact that child actors tend to grow up quickly.” Aang, Katara and Sokka might look very different by the time we hit season 3.
But while we eagerly await new set pictures and casting announcements, why not watch the original animated show all over again?
(featured image: Netflix)
