SDCC 2022 animated Last Airbender movie will star Aang and friends as adults

At today’s Avatar for The Last Airbender panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Nickelodeon’s Avatar Studios announced the subject of its first animated Avatar movie. The animated movie, which will differ from the Netflix live-action series, Bryan Konietzko, and Michael DiMartino, creators of the show, will feature the adventures and friendships of Aang as young adults.

Janet Varney (voice actress) recorded a message that she sent to fans of the panel. Nickelodeon tweeted the message later for the entire world.

“There have been a lot of rumors floating around, a lot of speculation, and a lot of excitement — I feel it too,” Varney said, looking up from a copy of an Avatar tie-in novel. “But we figured it was time to set the record straight. The first feature-length movie from Avatar Studios will be focusing on Avatar Aang and his friends.”

Aang was the star in Avatar of The Last Airbender(sometimes known by Avatar of the Legend of AangHe was not a human, but he did have many lives in the past and at least one more. Varney voiced Avatar Korra, Aang’s successor and star of Avatar: Legend of Korra, which took place decades after Aang’s time. And fans have shown fierce interest in avatars past, as well, like the warrior woman Avatar Kyoshi, the star of the novel seen in Varney’s hands.

The panel claims that the movie will feature Aang and his young friends in a new period not seen before on Avatar. And that’s a pretty tantalizing mystery for fans as well.

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