Avatar Aang and co. are headed to the big screen Fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender have a lot to look forward to, as Paramount and Nickelodeon announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that a trilogy of animated films set in the Avatar universe are currently in the works.
According to Variety, the films are in development under Nickelodeon Animation’s Avatar Studios, which was formed back in 2021 to focus on creating original content based around the universe of 2005’s Avatar: The Last Airbender and its 2012 follow-up The Legend of Korra.
The last time we heard about Nickelodeon and Paramount’s plans to expand the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender was in February of last year, when an animated Avatar film was first announced during a Viacom investors’ call in the lead up to the launch of Paramount Plus.
The first still-untitled film in the trilogy will be directed by Lauren Montgomery, who worked on both the original Avatar and The Legend of Korra as a storyboard artist and supervising producer.