{"id":367746,"date":"2025-12-24T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367746\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:27:11","slug":"last-airbender-sequel-film-skips-theatrical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367746\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Last Airbender&#8221; Sequel Film Skips Theatrical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/avatar-last-airbender-aaa-game-coming.jpg\" data-caption=\"Nickelodeon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/avatar-last-airbender-aaa-game-coming.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"avatar-last-airbender-aaa-game-coming\"\/><\/a>Nickelodeon<\/p>\n<p>Paramount has announced that its animated fantasy film \u201cLegend of Aang: The Last Airbender\u201d is skipping a theatrical release.  Instead, it will debut directly on the Paramount+ streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>The film marks a continuation of the popular TV series and was previously slated for a theatrical release on October 9th 2026.  Now, it will land on the streamer sometime in the Fall.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from both the original \u201cAvatar: The Last Airbender\u201d and \u201cThe Legend of Korra\u201d series, this is set several years later.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows the beloved character\u2019s young adult years and will feature the voices of Steven Yeun as Zuko, Dave Bautista, Dionne Quan as Toph, Jessica Matten as Katara, Rom\u00e1n Zaragoza as Sokka, and Dee Bradley Baker as Momo. South Korean singer-songwriter Eric Nam plays Aang.<\/p>\n<p>Additional cast members have also been announced today with Taika Waititi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Freida Pinto, Ke Huy Quan, and Peta Sergeant also joining the cast in undisclosed roles.<\/p>\n<p>The project is separate from a new animated television series titled \u201cAvatar: Seven Havens\u201d which will consist of 26 half-hour episodes spread across two seasons.  That follows a young Earthbender who discovers she\u2019s the new Avatar after Korra.<\/p>\n<p>With the title now on streaming, Paramount only has six theatrical releases next year \u2013 \u201cPrimate,\u201d \u201cScream 7,\u201d \u201cScary Movie 6,\u201d \u201cPaw Patrol: The Dino Movie,\u201d \u201cStreet Fighter\u201d and \u201cThe Angry Birds 3\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Paramount<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nickelodeon Paramount has announced that its animated fantasy film \u201cLegend of Aang: The Last Airbender\u201d is skipping a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-367746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}