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\nSPOILER ALERT<\/strong>: This article contains spoilers for \u201cAvatar Aang: The Last Airbender.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\tTeam Avatar is back! <\/p>\n

\n\tAt long last, fans of \u201cAvatar: The Last Airbender\u201d can (legally) watch the next onscreen adventure of Aang and his loyal friends, thanks to the release of \u201cAvatar Aang: The Last Airbender\u201d on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film ages up Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph and Zuko. Aang is well-established as the Avatar, but he is haunted by the fact that he is still the last airbender in the world.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a battle with a group of anti-benders calling themselves The Denied, Aang learns of the existence of a \u201clost Avatar,\u201d an airbender named Sonam, who possessed a staff of immeasurable power. In his search for the staff, Aang discovers an ancient airbender named Tagah (voiced by Dave Bautista) frozen on top of a mountain. <\/p>\n

\n\tUpon awakening Tagah, he tells the group that Sonam granted him and others the ability to become airbenders with her staff thousands of years ago. Figuring The Denied plan to use the staff to upset the fragile peace that now exists in the world, Team Avatar and Tagah set out to stop them. But along the way, they learn that Tagah witnessed the massacre of the other airbenders at the hands of the Earth Kingdom. He tried to overthrow Sonam and to use the staff to get revenge, leading to his imprisonment and Sonam exiling herself. <\/p>\n

\n\tAang and his friends must now battle Tagah and The Denied to once again save the world. <\/p>\n

\nVariety<\/em> spoke with \u201cAvatar\u201d creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and the film\u2019s director, Lauren Montgomery, about the launch of the movie, bringing \u201cAvatar\u201d back to the screen, and what ideas and characters didn\u2019t make it into the final cut. <\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the full Q&A below. <\/p>\n

\nWhy was this movie and story the point at which you wanted to re-enter the world of \u201cAvatar?\u201d<\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\nMichael Dante DiMartino<\/strong>: Obviously, Bryan and I came back to Nickelodeon to start Avatar Studios and start developing new projects to expand \u201cAvatar\u201d in TV and film. But film was the first priority for the studio, so we set to work thinking about what that would look like. There wasn\u2019t too much debate that we would focus on the original characters since they were the most iconic and most beloved characters we had so far. Then we quickly sort of settled on \u2014 for this to feel bigger and different, and an extension of the story we had already told, that aging them up, meeting them at a later point in their life, seemed like a good way to drop into the world again.<\/p>\n

\nBryan<\/strong> Konietzko<\/strong>: I might be an outlier, but \u2014 I still wanted to work in the \u201cAvatar\u201d world, but I wasn\u2019t hungry to go back to the original characters because that was the story that Mike and I set out to tell, and we were lucky enough to be able to complete it. And I wanted those characters to kind of have some peace and privacy and go on with their lives, and explore other parts of the Avatar world. But yeah, the studio and Mike said, if we\u2019re going to do a big feature film, it does make sense to focus on the main characters. But it wasn\u2019t until Mike pitched to me the idea of them at this age that the door sort of opened for me creatively.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe had originally thought of it being when Aang and Katara were about to start their family, and for a lot of good reasons, we moved away from that later in development. But I still found this moment in Aang\u2019s life to be really interesting. It\u2019s like, you look like an adult, you have adult responsibilities, but you haven\u2019t quite shed your adolescence. He\u2019s also the age that I was when Mike and I created \u201cAvatar.\u201d I was 25 going on 26, and so I had a lot of youthful enthusiasm, but I had a lot to learn about the world\u2026We had this cool poster that Joaquim Dos Santos had drawn during \u201cKorra\u201d of the original Team Avatar all around that age, and I think all of us and a lot of fans just kind of wondered, like, \u201cWow, what would that be like?\u201d<\/p>\n

\nLauren Montgomery<\/strong>: These are the characters that you fell in love with\u2026How are you going to tell another really satisfying story about [Aang]? And I think like the beauty of what we found is the only really personal story left to tell about Aang, and just the fact that it was always in the title, was being the last Airbender. We\u2019ve seen his arc of becoming the Avatar, but now we handle that other side. There was something really beautiful and emotional still to tell in that story. I was excited just because I very much love a tortured, emotional story. Even though I dislike drama in my life, I love it in my content.<\/p>\n

\nLike the shows, there are some crazy big action sequences in this. What was different about making them for a movie versus a series? <\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\nMontgomery<\/strong>: The craziest thing was we were making it, and I\u2019m looking at this movie, and I\u2019m like, \u201cThere\u2019s not enough action!\u201d There\u2019s just so much action, but there\u2019s so many things, so many ideas, like for Tagah. We had so many awesome conversations about his fighting style, and we didn\u2019t even get to get all of it in there. There were so many things we discussed, and I wish we could have fit it, but ultimately, there was a lot of story to be told.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was really exciting to be able to work with Alfred Hsing. Bryan and Mike had met him at Netflix. He\u2019s an amazing choreographer, and we worked together just discussing concepts of how the characters would have evolved in their fighting styles and discovering Tagah\u2019s style and what that means as an airbender, but as an airbender that uses his air bending in different ways. There was a lot in this movie as far as using bending to fight like other martial artist opponents and also using bending to fight natural disasters. So we tackled everything, and yet I still feel like there\u2019s so much we didn\u2019t get to do.<\/p>\n

\nKonietzko<\/strong>: We had the benefit of doing [previsualization] this time, which we kind of dabbled in \u201cKorra\u201d with just one compositor, but Lauren and the team were able to \u2014 like you said, these set pieces, they involved such a much more cinematic and kind of active camera. One that could flow through a three-dimensional space, but with two-dimensional, hand-drawn characters, and that process always takes a lot of pre-planning.<\/p>\n

\nDiMartino<\/strong>: When we were doing the series, our ambition in our brains was always thinking cinematically, but we were limited by time and money and the old aspect ratio of television back in the day. But when we made the finale of \u201cAvatar,\u201d we did screen it as \u2014 and we have screened it since then \u2014 the four parts as one movie, and it does hold up. You know, it feels like a big experience, a movie experience, even though the visuals aren\u2019t quite at the level that this movie is at.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tThis also has a pretty different art style than both \u201cLast Airbender\u201d and \u201cLegend of Korra.\u201d Why did you go that route? \t<\/h5>\n

\nKonietzko<\/strong>: We always want each \u201cAvatar\u201d project to have its own distinct visual identity. At the same time, we want them all to feel like they hang with each other. That way they\u2019re different windows into the same world. And a common factor or characteristic of that is that each one is a love letter to Japanese anime\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tI learned a lot in in making the first series, but we also had some incredible talent that rose to the surface between \u201cAvatar\u201d and \u201cKorra.\u201d And one of those folks was Ki Hyun Ryu. He did some amazing stuff on \u201cAvatar,\u201d and then he ended up being a supervisor, alongside Lauren, on \u201cKorra,\u201d and so even on Korra, we started basing the character design largely inspired by Ryu\u2019s style.<\/p>\n

\nDiMartino<\/strong>: There is an incredible amount of handcrafted attention to this movie, even though obviously computers are used for all the camera moves, and everyone\u2019s drawing on tablets or whatever, but these look like oil paintings come to life. Every frame, somebody drew that multiple times. They roughed it out, and someone had to clean it up, and someone had to paint every frame. And then there\u2019s the whole compositing aspect to it too, which is another process. Every frame is being gone over very carefully to make sure it all works and feels cohesive.<\/p>\n

\nMontgomery<\/strong>: There\u2019s a lot of technology used, but those are just the tools. Human artists crafted everything, and human artists used that technology to direct those shots. Nothing was just like plug it in and boop boop, it happens. There\u2019s none of that<\/p>\n

\n\t\tThis project and what I\u2019ve seen of \u201cSeven Havens\u201d have distinctly Indian influences. From Avatar Sonam being voiced by Freida Pinto to even the music. There\u2019s one singer in particular \u2014 \t<\/h5>\n

\nKonietzko<\/strong>: Varijashree Venugopal! Jeremy [Zuckerman], our composer, he was connected with her by a friend. We\u2019re working with Jeremy and Varijashree together on another one of our projects. And I\u2019m just like, \u201cYou two are a match made in the spirit world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith \u201cSeven Havens,\u201d it was very deliberate. The concept and even the word \u201cavatar\u201d all comes from Indian culture and tradition and Sanskrit. So we had done a bit in \u201cAvatar,\u201d the original series. We\u2019re obviously inspired by and draw from a lot of real world cultures for our fantasy world. But that said, I kind of felt like with the first two series, we had underserved that inspiration, and so it was very deliberate with Seven Havens to to code Pavi as a South Asian-inspired character.<\/p>\n

\nMontgomery<\/strong>: We definitely wanted to lean into those ancient cultures\u2019 mysticism, more fantasy, more spirituality, and I think a lot of that is apparent in a lot of the Indian cultures. Then we were just trying to really add to that ethereal quality of [Avatar Sonam], and Varijashree\u2019s voice just gives you that. It\u2019s so haunting.<\/p>\n

\nTalk to me about the challenges of trying to make a story that follows \u201cLast Airbender\u201d but also stays consistent with the story you established later in the timeline with \u201cLegend of Korra.\u201d How challenging is that? <\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\nKonietzko<\/strong>: Oh, it\u2019s a nightmare [laughs]. It\u2019s really hard.<\/p>\n

\nDiMartino<\/strong>: I do like that part of the job where it\u2019s just like figuring out the puzzle pieces. It gets more complex, obviously, with every year and every project we\u2019re adding to this stuff. But yeah, part of what I do now is \u2014 whether it\u2019s publishing or games or whatever \u2014 it\u2019s like, does this feel like it actually fits in the overall universe? It\u2019s not completely contradicting something else in another project. There are little tweaks we make, but if someone in a comic said this line, and it doesn\u2019t match with this, we might be like, \u201cThat\u2019s not the end of the world.\u201d Because there\u2019s so many different writers at this point who contribute ideas and stuff. So it\u2019s hard to police every line of dialog or every line in a novel or something.<\/p>\n

\n\tObviously, we couldn\u2019t end the movie where the airbenders are back. That obviously would not work. So there\u2019s those kind guardrails on it where it\u2019s like, okay, we know that\u2019s not the end of the movie. So what is a satisfying end to this where Aang still feels like he achieved something and is in a better place?<\/p>\n

\nAnd Tagah is obviously very central to the film. Talk to me about establishing him as this very dark airbender, and also what it was like getting to work with Dave Bautista as the voice of the character. <\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\nDiMartino<\/strong>: That character, like with a lot of things in the movie, went through a big evolution. There was a point where he wasn\u2019t in the movie, and then there was a version of Tagah that came into the movie, but he was named something else. But then once we settled that Aang finds another airbender, that\u2019s the crux of this film, this brotherhood, this bond they form, and their different points of view. Since he\u2019s from this time long ago, they would have these interpersonal conflicts. But also there\u2019s the idea that they kind of mirror of each other. They\u2019ve both gone through this genocide of their people, just at different times in the history of universe. Then we see how they both deal with that conflict in different ways and how that brings them closer and pulls them apart.<\/p>\n

\nMontgomery<\/strong>: I didn\u2019t follow wrestling. I didn\u2019t know Dave. I just knew him from his movie roles. But either way, Drax and his wrestling persona are big personas, and I think I was expecting him to be a very big persona guy, and he\u2019s actually like the gentlest, kindest human I have met. He doesn\u2019t speak very loudly, he\u2019s very respectful, and he really feels like the good version of Tagah that we see. He\u2019s like this monk who is saving a bird in the middle of the ocean. So it was really incredible that it kind of wound up that way, because like Mike said, there was a different character originally that was just a very different personality. And when we found this character of Tagah, who just brought so much more to the story, it\u2019s kind of amazing how beautifully Dave was able to make that character feel like he has so much more of a history and a depth.<\/p>\n

\nCan you tell me any ideas you had that didn\u2019t make it into the movie? <\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\nDiMartino<\/strong>: I know fans are going to be upset. Suki\u2019s not in the movie. She\u2019s in one shot at the end. We did try versions where Suki was in the movie. You just have to make these decisions where it\u2019s like, we only have 85 minutes to tell the story. We were already having a hard time giving our beloved main characters their spotlight and enough screen time\u2026 The Kyoshi Warriors are out there! They were off saving somebody else while the events of this movie were going on. Doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not around. They have their own comic book series now, so they are busy ladies.<\/p>\n

\nMontgomery<\/strong>: There was a scene that I really loved that didn\u2019t quite make it into the final film, and it was this parade that was the celebration of Republic City\u2026 It was so beautiful, and you saw a lot of fun Easter eggs of people. I think King Kuei was there, Suki was there with the Kyoshi Warriors, and it was this magnificent celebration of everyone celebrating their cultures\u2026and then the final person in this parade is Aang on Appa, and it becomes a perspective shift where you realize what is so joyous for everyone is very isolating for Aang, and he never feels more alone than in this moment, where everyone else can celebrate with their culture, and his is absent.<\/p>\n

\nFinally, the movie is getting a limited awards qualifying run in theaters instead of a full theatrical release. But the tickets for the awards screenings sold out in a day, I think. <\/strong> <\/h5>\n

\nDiMartino<\/strong>: I think it sold out in like 10 minutes or something.<\/p>\n

\nKonietzko<\/strong>: Yeah, it was pretty quick.<\/p>\n

\nDiMartino<\/strong>: I think that just shows that people really want to see this movie.<\/p>\n

\nKonietzko<\/strong>: I\u2019m still trying to get tickets to a Paramount screening! I got locked out of that. I\u2019m texting my executive like, \u201cHey, can I maybe get a couple tickets?\u201d [laughs]<\/p>\n

Read more Box Office: \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Holds Strong With $25 Million on Friday<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThis interview\u00a0has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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