While representation was a problem in The Last Airbender, there’s no denying that what stood out the most was the horrendous acting.
With the production of the 10-episode, hour-long retelling set to start in November, here are several mistakes that the new live-action needs to avoid: Terrible Casting While it’s safe to say that the casting for the Netflix series is spot-on thus far, the loss of Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko due to creative differences is a big concern. Currently, the film stands at a dismal 5% on rotten tomatoes.
To put it bluntly, the movie was a joyless hack with terrible acting, casting, and plotting. The long-lost Avatar must master the four elements and restore balance amongst the four nations – the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads.Īn attempt to make a live-action Avatar film was previously done back in 2010 by M.Night Shyamalan and well…there’s a reason why a good majority of people hate the Sixth Sense director. If you’ve been living under a rock since 2005 then the Avatar series is about Aang, who wakes up from a 100-year sleep to find out that the world is in the middle of a war against the fire nation. The news was met with excitement since Avatar creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were on board as showrunners. In 2018, Netflix announced a new live-action series of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which ran for three seasons from 2005 – 2008 on Nickelodeon.