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News Avatar: The Seven Heavens, Announced by Nickelodeon & Avatar Studios

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As part of a celebration of The Last Airbender's 20th Anniversary the franchise's creators, Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, announced that a new series, The Seven Heavens will be coming out.
https://www.ign.com/articles/avatar...d-set-after-the-events-of-the-legend-of-korra
It will be 2D animation and will have 26 episode split across 2 seasons or "books".
Here's the description from IGN
In a press release, Nickelodeon says Seven Havens will be set in a world “shattered by a devastating cataclysm. A young Earthbender discovers she’s the new Avatar after Korra - but in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity’s destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization’s last strongholds collapse.”
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I really enjoyed both The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, so I'm looking forward to this. I know they've been talking about doing more with the franchise, so it's nice to see that finally happening.
 
I'm surprised there isn't more of a reaction to this news, I thought we had a lot of Last Airbender and Korra fans on here.
 
Ooops, if a mod could fix the title, I would appreciate it.
IGN has a whole bunch of other information that was revealed at the panel.
https://www.ign.com/articles/first-image-from-avatar-seven-havens-revealed-sdcc-2025
The Earthbender is named Pavi, her pet is a cat monkey named Geet, and the other character is her Airbender mentor Jae. The city is their hometown Allura.
Pavi is the new Avatar, but in this era the Avatar is viewed as humanity's destroyer rather than it's savior. She'll be hunted by both human and spirit enemies, will team up with her long lost twin to save the Seven Havens "before civilization's last stronghold's collapse".
Definitely sounds like it could be interesting, and I haven't been disappointed in an Avatar series yet.
 
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Note that Pavi has a wooden leg, and I gather there's concept art showing her with a more advanced metal prosthetic. Given that she's the Avatar after Korra, and Korra's era corresponded to the 1920s or so technologically, it follows that Pavi's era would probably be late 20th century and might have had fairly advanced technology before the cataclysm.

See, this is what bugs me about post-apocalyptic science fiction. It tends to feel like an excuse to avoid speculating about future progress by having the world regress to a more primitive state. I would've liked to see what the space age would look like in the Avatar world, but it looks like that won't be happening. (Although, admittedly, a franchise called Avatar doing space travel might run afoul of James Cameron's lawyers, even though the animated series used the name first.)
 
I didn't think about that, but that is disappointing, I would love to see what a more modern version of the Avatar world is like.
 
As someone who hated Korra's worlds technology (they basically had hundreds of years of tech progress between Aang and Korra, which was stupid) I'd love to see them "reset" back to the tech level of around the first Avatar show. Having cars and 1920s New York in the Avatar universe was just ridiculous, in my opinion.

That said, unless they revert what Korra did

Erasing all the past Avatars and making Korra the only Avatar

I'll never watch the new show regardless. Still, going back to basics when it comes to the world is a good idea.
 
The whole way they worked bending into a more modern world was of my favorite things about The Legend of Korra. I loved all of the different technologies they introduced, and stuff like the pro-bending games.
 
Honestly, I think that's a wise choice (despite the reasons why they decided it...) because it's a better fit for the franchise. I think the film would have a stronger audience from television than it would have on the big screen.

The article also announces a bunch of new cast members for the film! Taika Waititi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Dee Bradley Baker, Peta Sergeant, Freida Pinto and Ke Huy Quan. Hell, yeah!
 
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Set Harth said:
Is this a 7th Heaven spinoff?
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No, it's a new spin-off of Nickelodeon's Avatar animated show.


The Grinch Doctor said:
Honestly, I think that's a wise choice (despite the reasons why they decided it...) because it's a better fit for the franchise. I think the film would have a stronger audience from television than it would have on the big screen.
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Avatar has a huge fanbase. If it had been released in theaters, it could have done well at the box office. But lately, Paramount has had so many animated films flop at the box office, even the SpongeBob movie flopped.
 
The Grinch Doctor said:
Honestly, I think that's a wise choice (despite the reasons why they decided it...) because it's a better fit for the franchise. I think the film would have a stronger audience from television than it would have on the big screen.
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Yeah, as disappointed as I am, I do have to question if there really would be enough interest in this to bring the kind of numbers they expect movies to make now.
It's starting to really get on my nerves that all of these franchises, like Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and now this are all going exclusively streaming. Even though I do streaming, I'd still like to see at least a few of these series on network or cable TV too.
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The article also announce a bunch of new cast members for the film! Taika Waititi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Dee Bradley Baker, Peta Sergeant, Freida Pinto and Ke Huy Quan. Hell, yeah!
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Wow, that's a hell of a cast they've put together.
 
JD said:
It's starting to really get on my nerves that all of these franchises, like Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and now this are all going exclusively streaming.
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Star Wars has wrapped principal photography on two movies!
 
Oh right, I meant series, I wasn't even really thinking about movies, but I guess I should have been more specific.
If it were me, I'd spread things through all of the company's channels. with different shows specifically set up to fit in with what audiences expect from the different channels.
 
Well, perhaps I'm wrong. Fans aren't taking the streaming release of Legend of Aang sitting down and have started a petition to have it released theatrically. That said, I don't put much stock into petitions because they so very rarely do anything but it is good to see that fans are making their voices heard about the streaming release.
 
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