Avatar – The Last Airbender (Other media)

Books
Several books based on the show have been published. Dark Horse Comics published an art
book titled Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Art of the Animated Series on June 2, 2010, with
184 pages of original art from the series.[96]

Comics
Main article: Avatar: The Last Airbender (comics)
Several comic-book short stories were published in Nickelodeon Magazine, and Dark Horse
published Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Lost Adventures—a collection of these and new
comics—on June 15, 2011.[97]

Dark Horse published a graphic-novel series by Gene Yang that continues Aang's story after the
Hundred Years' War. Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise, published in three volumes in
2012, explores the fate of the Fire Nation colonies that become The Legend of Korra's United
Republic. This series was translated into Hebrew in 2016–2017.[98] A second set of three comic
books, Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Search, focuses on Zuko and Azula, and the fate of
their mother Ursa.[99] The second set was translated into Hebrew in 2018–2019.[100] The third
set, Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift, shifts the focus to Aang, the creation of Republic City,
and Toph's relationship with her family.[101] The Rift was followed by Avatar: The Last
Airbender – Smoke and Shadow about a resistance force in the Fire Nation against Firelord
Zuko, who at the end of the original series assumed the throne.[102] The fifth graphic novel
was Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and South, which follows the events of Smoke and
Shadow and is about Katara and Sokka returning to the Water Tribe to see various changes to
their homeland.[103] The next graphic novel is titled Imbalance and was released in October
2018. The series explores the emerging conflict between the benders and non-benders that
becomes the center for the conflict in the first season of the sequel, The Legend of Korra. Unlike
the previous five books it was written by Faith Erin Hicks.[104]

Prequel novel series

A two-part young adult novel series focusing on Avatar Kyoshi written by F. C. Yee was
published in July 2019 by Abrams Children's Books. The first book of the Kyoshi Novels is
Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rise of Kyoshi.[105] The second part in the series, titled The
Shadow of Kyoshi, was released on July 21, 2020.[106]

Video games
A video-game trilogy based on the series has been released. The Avatar: The Last Airbender
video game was released on October 10, 2006,[107] and Avatar: The Last Airbender – The
Burning Earth was released on October 16, 2007.[108] Avatar: The Last Airbender – Into the
Inferno was released on October 13, 2008.[109] Avatar: Legends of the Arena, a massively
multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, was released on
September 15, 2008, by Nickelodeon. Players can create their own character and interact with
other players around the world.[110] Avatar: The Last Airbender was THQ's bestselling
Nickelodeon game in 2006 and was one of Sony CEA's Greatest Hits.[111] Aang and Zuko
appear as skins for Merlin and Susano, respectively, in Smite.[112] Avatar: The Last Airbender
characters and locations are featured in Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix.[113]

Film adaptation
The series' first season was the basis of the 2010 live-action film The Last Airbender, which was
written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It was intended as the first of a trilogy of films,
each of which would be based upon one of the three television seasons. The film was
universally panned for its writing, acting, whitewashed cast, and Shyamalan's direction; it
earned a 5% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes as well as five Razzies at the 31st Golden
Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture,[114][115][116] and some critics described it as one
of the worst films ever made.[117][118][119] Although the film originally shared the title of the
television series, the title The Last Airbender was used because producers feared it would be
confused with James Cameron's film Avatar.[120] The Last Airbender stars Noah Ringer as
Aang, Nicola Peltz as Katara, Jackson Rathbone as Sokka, Dev Patel as Zuko, and Shaun Toub as
Iroh.[114]

Sequel series
The Legend of Korra, a sequel series to Avatar: The Last Airbender, premiered on Nickelodeon
on April 14, 2012.[121] It was written and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan
Konietzko, the creators and producers of the original series.[122] The show was initially titled
Avatar: Legend of Korra, then The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra; its events occur seventy
years after the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender.[123] The series' protagonist is Korra, a 17-
year-old girl from the Southern Water Tribe who is the incarnation of the Avatar after Aang's
death.[121]

Live-action series remake

Netflix announced in September 2018 that a "reimagined" live-action remake of Avatar was to
start production in 2019. The series' original creators, DiMartino and Konietzko, were to be the
executive producers and showrunners.[4] The two said that they intended to adapt the series
"with a culturally appropriate, non-whitewashed cast".[124] It was announced that Jeremy
Zuckerman, who composed music for the original show, would also be returning to do the
music for the remake.[125]

On August 12, 2020, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko both revealed on their
social media that they had departed the show due to creative differences.[126][127][128][129]
In February 2021, Albert Kim was reported to have been brought on as the showrunner.[130]

Avatar Studios
On February 24, 2021, ViacomCBS announced Avatar Studios, a new division of Nickelodeon
centered on developing animated series and films set in the Avatar universe, to be distributed
via Nickelodeon's linear and digital services, Paramount+, theatres, and other third-party
platforms. The division is helmed by original series creators DiMartino and Konietzko, who are
its co-chief creative officers and report to Nickelodeon Animation president Ramsey Ann
Naito.[131] In addition to this announcement, the company also stated the studio would begin
production of an animated film sometime in 2021. Konietzko and DiMartino remarked that
"with this new Avatar Studios venture we have an unparalleled opportunity to develop our
franchise and its storytelling on a vast scale, in myriad exciting ways and mediums",[132] while
ViacomCBS Kids & Family president Brian Robbins declared "Avatar: The Last Airbender and
Korra have grown at least ten-fold in popularity since their original hit runs on Nickelodeon, and
Ramsey Naito and I are incredibly excited to have Mike and Bryan's genius talent on board to
helm a studio devoted to expanding their characters and world into new content and formats
for fans everywhere".[131]

Merchandise
Merchandising for the series included action figures, a trading card game, three video games,
stuffed animals distributed by Paramount Parks, and two Lego sets.