Lulcielid
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[Netflix] 'The Last Airbender' Live Action series
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Roger
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The original creators are involved, can't imagine they'll Death Note it up.
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Harbinger O Great Justice
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I think that like everything, it all comes down to execution. Ultimately it helps to just look at everything as stories. If those stories can be translated effectively into new mediums – do it! There was definitely a time when making some stories into a movie was a technological barrier of entry that animation could always surpass. Then as technology got better, that barrier continually got smaller and smaller until it's basically nonexistent anymore. TV also had that barrier for a while, especially because of budget – and it had different constraints than film had. Film had to condense stories into a ~2 hour medium, whereas TV could tell them in multiple chunks of 20mins - 1hr at a time that was more like chapters in a book. Long-form storytelling got better, and that's why trilogies & series became more popular, and cinematic universes started happening. Then eventually fed all of that back into TV again.
With ATLA originally being written for TV, it won't have the pacing difficulties that book adaptations can have. If they can pull of the story and bring about some new goodness with the live action medium, like I said before – go for it!
Also, being that it's a Netflix original series, that also means that blind/visually impaired people will be able to watch it – since Netflix always has audio captions for all their original content. Anytime there's another popular series with a prominent blind character in a medium for blind & visually impaired folks to enjoy, it always makes me happy.
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With ATLA originally being written for TV, it won't have the pacing difficulties that book adaptations can have. If they can pull of the story and bring about some new goodness with the live action medium, like I said before – go for it!
Also, being that it's a Netflix original series, that also means that blind/visually impaired people will be able to watch it – since Netflix always has audio captions for all their original content. Anytime there's another popular series with a prominent blind character in a medium for blind & visually impaired folks to enjoy, it always makes me happy.
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Lulcielid
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The only thing I want from this adaptation (aside from beig good) is to add a bit of sort of new content in some capacity, it would be a nice incentive.
On a side note I hope they streamline the first book A LOT, cause 80% of that season was a drag to watch for me.
On a side note I hope they streamline the first book A LOT, cause 80% of that season was a drag to watch for me.
Lulcielid
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CrashOuch
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I was actually thinking about this yesterday, wondering how long it would take to get another attempt at a live action version.
The thing about Netflix is some stuff that they label as "Original" just means that they're the only ones in the U.S that has the distribution rights to it. That means that a lot of animes and movies they had nothing to do with end up with their name on it because they put the money upfront for ownership of it because no other distributor wanted it or they won the bidding war. In the case of Death Note AND Bleach, both films were already produced, and in Bleach's case, distributed in Japanese theaters via Universal Japan if I'm not mistaken. With Death Note, I believe it was indie, and nobody really wanted much to do with it so Netflix got it for cheap.
So you really should be looking at what Netflix puts money up for to produce directly. There's some really good stuff...and really bad stuff. But the fact that the original show runners are involved for the moment makes things look fairly promising.
So you really should be looking at what Netflix puts money up for to produce directly. There's some really good stuff...and really bad stuff. But the fact that the original show runners are involved for the moment makes things look fairly promising.
Carlie
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I mostly just find this pointless, while it could be good we already know this story. They could've done new stories for ATLA and LoK, adapt and continue the comics they've been doing (except for The Promise and especially The Search). Korra would definitely benefit from new material on a platform that's not constantly screwing it over and S&P regulations that prevent Korrasami's relationship from being shown properly. They could've done a prequel series with Avatar Kyoshi or Yangchen or another previous Avatar we don't know about. ATLA is my favorite series ever but I would rather have new material than the show again in live action which may or may not work.
Ite
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