you guys are not gonna believe this team
avatar is back hey everybody its charlie we have the
best possible news we have an early preview of scenes that they're filming
for the Avatar The Last Airbender Netflix series so we'll break it down of
course I'll be doing all kinds of videos for the series just like I did for
Legend of Korra in the original Avatar The Last Airbender series so if you're
brand new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get everything because they
are ramping up quickly I'll also talk about the actual release date after I
talk about the scenes that they were filming so starting with number 8 big
breakdown there was a person working on set probably production assistant that
recorded all the stuff that they were doing so r.i.p to him but his job died
so that we could see what's going on with a new avatar the last airbender
series so I'll just read what his message was when he posted this on the
internet he says I got a chance to work on a visual effects test for the new
live-action series and I thought I'd share the experience probably going to be
the last experience that he has with this particular effects house but he
says we've filmed some test scenes in a huge screen studio in Los Angeles one in
Fire Lord Ozai throne room and the other in the tundra with Katara and Sokka all
the backdrops were keyed digitally Oh crazy that there is no real-life place
that they can go to to do that particularly the fire Lords palace 7 the
actors James Luke played Fire Lord Ozai Kevin Garner played Sokka and Kate
Bharati played Katara you may have seen James Liu if you've watched a lot of old
martial arts films he's pretty badass but most of the time now when he's not
working as an actor he works as a stunt coordinator the biggest thing that he
did lately was coordinating all the fights for Marvel's Luke Cage series on
Netflix so he's done a lot of Netflix work before the actors that they had
playing Sokka and Katara's a new but they give you a good idea for how young
the actors are going to be in the actual series they were just using those people
as stand-ins so there'll be different actors when the series actually
premieres because they're still casting the series right now the throne room
scene consisted of a bunch of test shots of Fire Lord Ozai sitting on the throne
they said they saw him doing a bunch of weird stuff that probably won't make it
into the actual series they just wanted to get a sense for what it was going to
look like inside his palace because obviously you see this on the riser here
with his throne everything around it is going to be replicated digitally
this isn't what it's going to look like on the actual series this is gem just
testing out digital environment replacement for his throne room just to
make it look really really crazy also pretty sure they're not going to make fire
lord ozai where we're looking hat like that in the actual episodes the six
Sokka and Katara's seen had dialogue and a bunch of action they were bickering
about sokka's boomerang and how they needed to hunt for fish when a group of
quote-unquote Marauders spotted them and chased them away
Katara yelled threw up a wall of ice to protect them waterbending Sokka freaked
out and said Katara you're a waterbender as if they'd never seen her waterbend
before and this was the first time even Katara was surprised that she was able
to water Ben the Marauders freaked out and take off and they're saved
so five right away he realized that some of those scenes weren't in the original
episodes or in the case of the fire lord ozai scene they were filming that didn't
happen till way later in the first season and Fire Lord Ozai himself didn't
really appear in an episode in a really big way as Mark Hamill till future
seasons based on Mike and Brian's synopsis of the series that they
released last year when they first announced hey we're bringing Avatar The
Last Airbender back on Netflix they said it's going to be a deeper retelling of the
original Avatar The Last Airbender series but that only ran for 61 episodes
of half-hour animation the new Netflix series will be hour-long live-action and
going deeper as you probably guessed means they'll be adding a lot of
material to the original store time with each of the team avatar members as they
learn more about their own individual bending styles like spending way more
time with Toph once she shows up in a future season and starts learning more
about her earthbending it eventually learns how to metalbend we already spent
a ton of time in the original series with Zuko practicing his firebending
lightning bending same thing with Azula so it won't be quite as big of a change
for those characters so what might be going on with them having Katara
learning to be a waterbender for the first time in the first season might
just be a parallel for Aang's story learning to waterbend during the first
season for like they said when they released all these scenes these are
supposed to be temp actors even though James Liu is a total martial arts badass
Netflix is spending Game of Thrones level money on this series so they will
probably cast a much more recognizable actor for Fire Lord Ozai I did see
someone according a rumor that mark hamill was
going to actually come back and be live action fire lord ozai because he was the
voice of the character on the animated series
Prince Zuko you've been among the earth Kingdom commoners do you think that
adding more troops will stop these rebellions but based on what Mike and
Brian have said about the new episodes I don't believe that at all
it will probably wind up being a relatively high profile Asian actor same
goes for Sokka and Katara's but the ages of these actors give you a pretty good
idea for how old they'll be at the beginning of the series actors in their
late teens early 20s playing characters in their mid-teens Sokka was only 16 at
the beginning of season 1 of the animated series Katara was only 14 they
might age them up a couple years but they'd still be teenagers still pretty
close to their original agent much as young actors can become great martial
artists I fully expect them to use every last trick in modern technology in every
giant bag of money they can to make the actual martial arts and bending effects
look really really cool in ignoring what that all looked like during the original
live-action movie don't waste your time going back and watching that standard
practice in Hollywood is usually they just get a really badass stunt double
and perform a lot of digital facial replacement for the craziest fight
scenes best example that is a couple of years ago during Game of Thrones Season 7 they released a featurette for the Arya vs.
Brienne fight Maisie Williams
trained as much as she could to actually do the scene but they had a stunt double
that was basically her same size do the fight scene and then they just swapped
Maisie Williams face onto her face so it looked like she was actually doing this
the whole time probably going to be the exact same situation with a live-action
Avatar The Last Airbender series they also do a lot of this digital
environment replacement where they have you know green screen or blue screen and
then they have this crazy planet or a crazy building that they're inside so I
wouldn't be super worried about what everything is going to look like it
sounds like they have the right technology and they're spending the
right amount of money and I believe that Sifu key sue is also coming back to
advise on a lot of their actual martial arts fights in the bending styles what
differentiates the essences of these different martial arts forms firebending
of course we use the dynamic and artistic movements
of the northern Shaolin style the powerful kicks the punches the low
stances the nearly acrobatic movements did cuts through the center of mass of
the opponent that slices right through to release date and episode count
there's a landing page that Netflix created for the series that says 2020
next freaking year that is crazy I was not expecting it to premiere until 2021
at the rate that they were going to last time Mike and Brian posted a production
update but if they're planning on releasing it next year that means that
they have to finish casting really really soon and start shooting before
the end of the year the only way they'd be able to shoot and edit all those
episodes by the end of next year is if they're only doing eight to ten episodes
per season Netflix did the exact same thing with The Witcher series and Henry
Cavill they only did eight episodes for their season one but it took them less
than a year to turn it around and do all those special effects I even saw some
newspaper claiming that they were going to release the Avatar The Last Airbender
series next summer which seems crazy I think that they'll have a trailer to
bring to comic-con next summer but unless Mike and Bryan come out and
say something different I'm not expecting it to premiere till the end of
next year so number one season one story arc early predictions if they're
retelling the original story they only do around ten episodes per season
expanding the original half-hour episodes to a full hour
planning on five to six seasons instead of the original three they'd either have
to a end the first season with the two-parter Winter Solstice episodes
where Aang gets the Avatar Roku message and then they come to the fire temple to
learn about sozin's comet and his path as the avatar is laid out they learned
that they had to make it to the Northern Water Tribe to teach Aang how to
waterbend so that he can become a fully actualized avatar and defeat Fire Lord
Ozai before he becomes too powerful or B they could try to end the first season
with the original season 1 finale the siege of the Northern Water Tribe but
that almost feels like it's moving through the material way too fast and it
would cause them problems down the road in later seasons so everybody post your
predictions about what they're going to do with the first season what do you think
the finale is going to be do you think that they're going to end with the
Winter Solstice or do you think they're going to try and speed through and end
with this each of the north and I will do more
update videos in the production if we get more previews more scenes more
teasers that'll all start happening a little bit later this year when they
start filming everybody click here to learn about the
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