We have learned that experienced producer Dan Lin will be executive producing Netflix’s upcoming ‘Avatar The Last Airbender’ series alongside his production company Lin Pictures. Dan Lin and Lin Pictures have recently produced films such as ‘The Lego Movie’, ‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’, ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’, ‘The Lego Batman Movie’, ‘Death Note’, ‘It’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘It Chapter Two’. The production company have also produced shows such as ‘Forever’, ‘Frequency’, ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘Unikitty’.
The upcoming series will be written and executive produced by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and is currently prepping to begin production in 2020 likely for a 2021 release with the show nearing the process to begin adding more crew members to series with casting to follow afterwards.
The world is divided into four nations; the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation and the Air Nomads. Each of these are represented by a natural element for which the nation is named. The Benders have the ability to control and manipulate the element in their nation. Only the Avatar is the master of all four elements. The ruthless Fire Nation wants to conquer the world but the only bender who has enough power, the Avatar, can save the people. Two Water Tribe members, Katara and Sokka, discovers Aang and find out that he is the long lost Avatar. Now Katara and Sokka must safeguard Aang on his journey to master all four elements and save the world from the Fire Nation.