Daniel Dae Kim gives update on Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action remake

Netflix has been working on a live-action remake of the beloved animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender forever. We know who’s in it, and according to ScreenRant, filming on the first season wrapped up way back in June of 2022. So when’s it coming out already?

Appearing on the TigerBelly podcast, star Daniel Dae Kim gave the barest of updates: “We don’t know yet, but they’re working on the VFX right now,” he said. “There’s a lot of comedy in this.”

Having appear in series like Lost and Hawaii Five-O, Kim is one of the bigger names in The Last Airbender cast. He’s playing Firelord Ozai, the tyrannical leader of the Fire Nation and the villain of the piece. I’m sure he’ll knock it out of the park; I just wish I could see something. A promo, a still, anything!

Netflix’s The Last Airbender live-action remake will have “a lot of comedy”

The last time someone tried to adapt The Last Airbender to live-action, we got M. Night Shyamalan’s famously bad 2010 movie. And the new remake got some bad press when original Last Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko walked away from the project over creative differences. And now there’s been zero marketing for a show you’d think would deserve a lot of press. Taken together, none of this is encouraging.

But still, the original show is so good that I can’t help but want the live-action version to succeed.  And it’s nice to hear from Kim that the Netflix show will have “a lot of comedy,” since laughs were a big part of the original series that Shyamalan basically omitted from his movie version. So until I have the actual thing playing on my TV, hopefully later this year, I’ll stay optimistic.

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