My first reaction after Hell yeah!
was Holy s—!
Do I really want to do this?'"
Albert Kim tells EW in his first interview about the live-action adaptation.
You’d have to be an idiot not to be intimidated a little bit, he says.
My first reaction after Hell yeah!
was Holy s—!
Do I really want to do this?
Is there a way to improve upon the original?
That was incredibly rare.
It still is, he says.
A live-action version meant setting new benchmarks for representation by featuring an all Asian and Indigenous cast.
Konietzko and DiMartinos presence isntcompletelyabsent from the live-action series.
Traces of them still exist.
Kim sat down with the duo in the early days before their departure to pick their brains.
The live-actionAvatarwill instead begin to adapt the main events with an eight-episode hourlong drama format for the initial run.
“That was a conscious decision to show people this is not the animated series.”
“So I’m very curious to see what’ll happen in terms of reaction to that.”
“We made sure to include all those in the show.”
Avatar: The Last Airbenderwill premiere Thursday, Feb. 22, on Netflix.
