Avatar: The Last Airbender: Release date, trailer for Netflix series

The final trailer for the series has been released and gives us a glimpse at Avatar Kyoshi, who tells Aang that he must master the Avatar state and hints at just how powerful the youngster will become.

Read on to learn everything we know about Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action, including release date, cast and the latest trailer.

Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action release date

Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action will drop on Netflix on Thursday 22nd February 2024.

It's a small way the show is paying homage to the original, which was released on 21st February 2005.

Last year, we got our first look at Netflix's live-action series at its TUDUM event in Brazil, introduced by none other than the quartet of main stars, who teed up their exciting teaser.

Since then, we've had another update from Netflix on 17th October 2023, with some beautiful first-look stills at some of the characters, as well as our first release window.

Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action stars

While the animated series had an incredible bunch of stars featuring Mark Hamill and Mae Whitman, the Netflix live-action adaptation has set its sights on a batch of well-known and fresh faces to give us what looks to be a strikingly life-like comparison to their animated counterparts.

The series stars:

• Gordon Cormier as Avatar Aang
• Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko
• Kiawentiio Tarbell as Katara
• Ian Ousley as Sokka
• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as General Iroh
• Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai
• Hiro Kanagawa as Fire Lord Sozin
• Ken Leung as Commander Zhao
• Maria Zhang as Suki
• Elizabeth Yu as Princess Azula
• Casey Camp-Horinek as Gran Gran
• Amber Midthunder as Princess Yue
• Arden Cho as June
• Danny Pudi as the Mechanist
• A Martinez as Pakku
• Irene Bedard as Yagoda
• Joel Oulette as Hahn
• Nathaniel Arcand as Chief Arnook
• Meegwun Fairbrother as Avatar Kuruk
• Tamlyn Tomita as Yukari
• Yvonne Chapman as Avatar Kyoshi
• Utkarsh Ambudkar as King Bumi
• CS Lee as Avatar Roku
• Lucian-River Chauhan as Teo
• James Sie as the Cabbage Merchant
• Ruy Iskandar as Lt Jee
• Momona Tamada as Ty Lee
• Thalia Tran as Mai
• Ryan Mah as Lt Dang
• François Chau as The Great Sage
• Lim Kay Siu as Gyatso
• George Takei as Koh
• Randall Duk Kim as Wan Shi Tong

New star Cormier said of the series: "Avatar: The Last Airbender live action I feel like is going to bring everything you know and love about the original series back to life.

"And hopefully [it will] just bring a bunch of new fans who have never heard [of] the show before into this universe, and to me that’s pretty exciting. I’m a fan of the show personally, and I’m just as excited for this as you guys are."

Meanwhile, Katara star Kiawentiio Tarbell recently gave us an insight as to what we can expect from her on-screen brother, Sokka (played by Ian Ousley).

She said: "I feel like we also took out the element of how sexist [Sokka] was. I feel like there were a lot of moments in the original show that were iffy. There are things that were redirected just because it might play a little differently [in live-action]."

Co-star Ousley concurred: "There's more weight with realism in every way."

Kim also recently opened up to RadioTimes.com about his villain, Fire Lord Ozai. He said: "What was really interesting to me about Ozai was a couple of things.

"One was his role as a father. As one myself, and as someone who has tried to guide two children – two boys, in fact – the choices that Ozai made were the start for me in exploring the character. What were his intentions? Where did they go wrong? What does he want for this character? What, in the end, does he really want from Zuko?"

Kim added: "I started there and I also explored his own sense of ambition – why does he want to throw this world out of harmony? Why does he want to throw it out of balance so much? What is the source of this desire to conquer the entire world? I looked to our politicians and our political situation to start that exploration."

Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action plot

We expect that the first season of Netflix's live-action adaptation will take inspiration from the first season of the animated show, and based on Netflix's synopsis, which you can read below, that seems to be the case.

"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. The four nations once lived in harmony, with the Avatar, master of all four elements, keeping peace between them. But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked and wiped out the Air Nomads, the first step taken by the firebenders towards conquering the world. With the current incarnation of the Avatar yet to emerge, the world has lost hope.

"But like a light in the darkness, hope springs forth when Aang, a young Air Nomad – and the last of his kind – reawakens to take his rightful place as the next Avatar.

"Alongside his newfound friends Sokka and Katara, siblings and members of the Southern Water Tribe, Aang embarks on a fantastical, action-packed quest to save the world and fight back against the fearsome onslaught of Fire Lord Ozai.

"But with a driven Crown Prince Zuko determined to capture them, it won’t be an easy task. They’ll need the help of the many allies and colourful characters they meet along the way."

The cast recently chatted to RadioTimes.com, teasing just how faithful the series will be.

Lizzy Yu, who plays Azula, said: "I feel like this is the first time we've ever gotten to see these action scenes so big and lively like this. Everybody loves the original action scenes from the show because they are so dramatic and I feel like in our show, we do capture that, the gravity of what they're all fighting for and also it looks so cool."

Ken Leung, who plays Commander Zhao, added: "When you have animation, it's two-dimensional, there's all this stuff you can do that you cannot do [in live-action], but when it is live-action, you bring in human energies – the chemical combination of two human beings and that cannot be replicated in a drawing.

"I hope fans who love the animation will take that creative leap with us and embrace that newness to it."

How many episodes will Avatar: The Last Airbender consist of?

The live-action series of Avatar: The Last Airbender will consist of eight episodes.

Directors will include Michael Goi, Jabbar Raisani, Roseanne Liang, and Jet Wilkinson.

Is there a trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action?

Yes! The final trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender hints at just how powerful Aang will become as he attempts to master all four elements

Check it out below:

Avatar: The Last Airbender is coming to Netflix on 22nd February 2024. You can check out the best series on Netflix, best movies on Netflix or visit out TV Guide for more to watch.

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