live action series doomed, haha
Live action series doomed, haha
Blake Hill
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Aaron Williams
Not enough gays? Too many gays?
Tyler Clark
>Known hacks leave production
>Doomed
Jayden Sanchez
>trusting netflix to make something good
Cameron Martinez
Too many gays+southern water tribe will be black. Aang will be in a gay love triangle with katara and zuko
Leo Allen
>netflix
>live-action adapatation
>of a cartoon made 20 years ago
Elijah Taylor
They laid their golden egg. Series was doomed with our without them.
Maybe we'll get some cool live action bending out of it, but the acting will be terrible and the cgi for things like Appa and Momo will suck
Ryder Taylor
>Michael's statement
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An open letter to Avatar: The Last Airbender fans:
Many of you have been asking me for updates about the Avatar live-action Netflix series. I can finally tell you that I am no longer involved with the project. In June of this year, after two years of development work, Bryan Konietzko and I made the difficult decision to leave the production.
When Bryan and I signed on to the project in 2018, we were hired as executive producers and showrunners. In a joint announcement for the series, Netflix said that it was committed to honoring our vision for this retelling and to supporting us on creating the series. And we expressed how excited we were for the opportunity to be at the helm. Unfortunately, things did not go as we had hoped.
Look, things happen. Productions are challenging. Unforeseen events arise. Plans have to change. And when those things have happened at other points during my career, I try to be like an Air Nomad and adapt. I do my best to go with the flow, no matter what obstacle is put in my way. But even an Air Nomad knows when it’s time to cut their losses and move on.
I started to reevaluate what is truly important in my life and what I wanted to do with what’s left of it. I took some advice from Uncle Iroh. I looked inward and started asking myself the big question: “Who are you and what do you want?”
I also sought wisdom from Stoic philosophers who were big on differentiating between what is within our control and what isn’t. I realized I couldn’t control the creative direction of the series, but I could control how I responded. So, I chose to leave the project. It was the hardest professional decision I've ever had to make, and certainly not one that I took lightly, but it was necessary for my happiness and creative integrity.
Nicholas Davis
And who knows? Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar has the potential to be good. It might turn out to be a show many of you end up enjoying. But what I can be certain about is that whatever version ends up on-screen, it will not be what Bryan and I had envisioned or intended to make.
I also want to be clear that this doesn't mean the end of my involvement in the Avatar universe. These stories and characters are important to me and the renewed interest and excitement in Avatar and Korra has been inspiring to see.
Writing this letter has left me with a very heavy heart. I know many of you will be disappointed and frustrated by this news. I get it. I share your disappointment and frustration. I also recognize this creative setback is small compared to the problems we’re all facing as a society right now.
Thankfully, Iroh offered some wisdom for that, too: “Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving you will come to a better place.”
May we all keep moving and come to a better place.
Thanks for reading and for your continued enthusiasm for the Avatar universe.
With gratitude,
Michael Dante DiMartino
Luke Parker
Good
Kayden Watson
first nickelodeon and now netflix, you think they might just be difficult to work with?
Jordan Nguyen
The only way it wasnt going to be bad was if they followed the cartoon exactly. Maybe skip a few filler episodes. However Bryke's letter strongly implies they heavily changed it.
Thomas Kelly
>Bryke's statement.
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Before I get to the crux of this statement, I would like to make it clear that I am very aware and appreciative of the fact that I am in an exceedingly fortunate position, and that the following issues are indeed good problems to have - even more so now that we are in the grips of a global pandemic and a cratering economy which have left millions unemployed. With that crucial context, here is the big news from my little world.
Michael DiMartino and I recently chose to leave Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the series he and I created together in 2002. We will have no involvement in the project moving forward.
This is probably the most difficult decision I have ever made. But there is no doubt in my mind it was absolutely the right one.
When Netflix brought me on board to run this series alongside Mike two years ago, they made a very public promise to support our vision. Unfortunately, there was no follow-through on that promise. Though I got to work with some great individuals, both on Netflix's side and on our own small development team, the general handling of the project created what I felt was a negative and unsupportive environment.
To be clear, this was not a simple matter of us not getting our way. Mike and I are collaborative people; we did not need all of the ideas to come from us. As long as we felt those ideas were in line with the spirit and integrity of the Avatar, we would have happily embraced them.
However, we ultimately came to the belief that we would not be able to meaningfully guide the direction of the series.
Xavier Martinez
sad that this feels like it could actually happen
Carter Reed
Though I am profoundly disappointed by how things turned out, there are wonderfully talented people who are still working on the series, some of whom Mike and I personally hired and got to know well during out time on the project. We worked very hard together towards a shared dream of how special this adaptation could be. I want to see them employed, and I hope they get the chance to do their best work on the series. Perhaps the team that remains might still be able to make something fans of the original and an entirely new audience can enjoy.
By and large, I have an incredibly charmed career and I am very grateful for it. And I am enormously lucky for the amazing global community of fans that has grown around the shows Mike and I have created and run together. I will continue to be deeply involved in the Avatar universe, telling the stories my partner and I want to tell in the way we want to tell them. I will put my time, energy, and talents towards the projects that give me the most fulfillment, and where I am afforded trust and respect.
Life is too short to do otherwise.
- Bryan Konietzko
Jayden Hughes
>exactly
to the point of having dante basco meticulously dub zuko's lines, along with grey delisle/azula
Eli Martin
Aang recast as a black woman confirmed.
Julian Long
avatar state! yipyip!
William Price
Good
Live action is gross
Blake Johnson
>Bryan's statement
Fixed.
Colton James
get ready for a fat, old and orange ozai who want to BUILD a wall around ba sing sei
Oliver Reed
lets place bets on who the new show runner will be
Joshua Gutierrez
will be gone before premiere
Reference won’t make as much sense
Tyler Mitchell
Brian and Mike were shit anyway
Noah Smith
you guys are all forgetting the obvious, Netflix was gonna force Aang to be gender fluid because his past lives contain all sexuality, and Aang was gonna have it be his defining character trait which would obviously detract from the fact that he's a 12 year old kid that needs to take town an national leader.
Good thing they pulled out when they did, I wouldn't want my name attached to the Avatar of faggots.
Henry Lewis
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Gabriel Garcia
I've said this before and I'll say it a thousand times, it was my man Aaron Ehasz that made Avatar what it is.
Mike and Brian may have designed the characters and template but it was Aaron that put the work in writing the plot and the characters depth. That's why when he left and Mike and Brian had true control over everything it shit the bed and tried to dismantle everything Aaron created.
Sebastian Gutierrez
Aaron Ehasz will be the new showrunner by the power of These Fucking Digits
Lincoln Murphy
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Jackson Baker
Good, I'm glad. I hope it crashes and burns and they never get another show ever again. I hope Netflix runs Avatar so hard into the ground it will be too embarrassing to remember or even reference. I hope its failure overshadows the original show and sends their legacies and careers into obscurity.
Fuck these people and their incestuous, horrifying industry. I wish only awful things on every person involved. Here's hoping a sound stage collapses on the crew.
Jacob Sanchez
basado
Owen Miller
you saying you want to give it the ol' Star Wars treatment?
Blake Mitchell
good lord
Henry Taylor
Huh so they have SOME integrity left
Never sell the rights to your creations kids
Logan Carter
>water tribes are now black
>earth kindgom is no longer chinese and doesn't have a secret police anymore
>fire nation is white and no longer has asian architecture
>air nomads are indian
>aang is gender fluid, whatever the fuck that means
>ozai is trump
>azula is trans
>zuko is gay for aang
Here's your Netflix™ adaptation user.
John Gutierrez
They never had integrity, they're mediocre character designers who barely had any sway in how Avatar turned out
What the fuck happened to Zig Forums, last I remember Bryke were pretty hated for their involvement with Korra
Kevin Walker
Korra already kinda did this. Then they even had the gall to retconnect/add to the original with some bizarre takes that use a tone non-existant on the original.
For all intends and purposes the Avatar brand is dead.
Wyatt Morgan
Kayden Fisher
lol I didnt even realize how well the earth kingdom literally brainwashing his people lines up with current day China, there is no way that wouldnt be changed
Jason Cooper
I find it hard to believe hacks like Bryke would drop a show for being too woke. I imagine Netflix reined in some of that in.
Hudson Green
What happened with Nick?
Easton Long
>aang is gender fluid, whatever the fuck that means
It means he's a gender bender
Ian Ortiz
>netflix live-action adapatation
>not doomed
kek
Grayson Torres
I mean...was there ever any chance of this being good?
Jaxson Lopez
they just treated the series like shit. waited months between airing episodes, and sidelined korra to streaming only for the second half of the last season.
Adrian Peterson
Cool, but when are we gonna accept pedos? I ain't getting any younger y'know!
Adam Hall
nop
Christian Wood
>I also sought wisdom from Stoic philosophers who were big on differentiating between what is within our control and what isn’t
oh boy watch out people, we got ourselves a philosopher here
Oliver Watson
Korra is non canon so are the comics, they're alt universes at best because they don't line up with the show in the least.
Cooper Lopez
a good way to summarize everything that's been posted in the thread.
Jacob Hill
>Korra is non canon so are the comics
nice joke
William Green
everyone in thread complaining about wokeness is retarded.
it will be this. the earth kingdom will get neutered because it will cost them chinabux. beyond a shadow of a fucking doubt.
Jack Sanchez
still coping I see
korra may have been a trash series but its moronic to try to take that and say the wan story somehow retcons shit when it clearly doesn't
Hudson Flores
Ha-ha!
Liam Mitchell
You aren't going away from DRULPJFKSJHDF-posting, ever. Even when he dies, even when you die, he's now eternal in politics, just like Hitler.
Logan Taylor
alt universe retcons are never canon
>benders learned from animals a major plot point in ATLA
>lol no it was magic lion turtles in Korra
non canon retcons
Liam Evans
This isn't real, right? The Netflix adaptation is some kind of collegehumor-type joke vid?
Ryan Nguyen
"It's utter garbage. Don't watch it."
I admire this man.
Carter Hernandez
the absolute state of lorelets