Netflix has set the main cast for the live-action adaptation.
Air… and boomerang!
And now for their pursuer.
This was a chance to showcase Asian and Indigenous characters as living, breathing people.
This Netflix series seems to be a clear course correct in that regard.
“I also knew what I didn’t want to do.
I didn’t want to change things for the sake of change,” Kim continued.
“I didn’t want to modernize the story, or twist it to fit current trends.
Aang is not going to be a gritty antihero.
Katara is not going to get curtain bangs.
(I was briefly tempted to give Sokka a TikTok account though.
Think of the possibilities.)”
“But throughout this process, our byword has been ‘authenticity.’
To the cultural influences,” he added.
He definitely sounds like the Aang fans are familiar with.
Katara, meanwhile, is the “determined and hopeful waterbender, the last in her small village.
Directors on the series include Michael Goi, Roseanne Liang, and Jabbar Raisani.
