11 years after The Legend of Korra got here to an finish, the cycle of the Avatar continues yet one more: after years of teasing and planning, Nickelodeon is able to introduce the world to a model new Avatar collection.
Deadline reviews that this morning Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios introduced that its subsequent main venture is Avatar: Seven Havens, a 26-episode, 2D animated TV collection that can mark the subsequent main chronological leap within the Avatar timeline after the occasions of The Final Airbender and Legend of Korra. Franchise co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will develop the collection.
Seven Havens might be set in an apocalyptic world devastated by a cataclysm that has torn the each the human and spirit worlds asunder, with the remnants of civilization holding out from whole annihilation within the titular strongholds all through the world. A younger feminine Earthbender, at the moment unnamed, will star as the subsequent heir of the powers of the Avatar–the transcendental re-incarnating hero of future who instructions the facility to concurrently wield the 4 elemental bending arts of Hearth, Earth, Air, and Water–solely to seek out that on this cataclysmic age, the mantle of the Avatar is a portent of doom and destruction, moderately than a savior.
On the run as she is pursued by each human and spirit forces, the brand new Avatar might be joined within the collection by her long-lost twin sibling, as they uncover their very own mysterious origins and hyperlinks to the Avatar Cycle, and discover a solution to save their world earlier than the Seven Havens collapse completely.
“Once we created the unique collection, we by no means imagined we’d nonetheless be increasing the world a long time later,” DiMartino and Konietzko stated in an announcement offered by Nickelodeon. “This new incarnation of the Avatarverse is filled with fantasy, thriller, and an entire new forged of wonderful characters. Get able to take one other epic and emotional journey!”
Seven Havens will, within the type of Final Airbender and Korra earlier than it, be cut up into seasons known as “Books”, with each comprising of 13 half-hour episodes. It’s at the moment unknown if Seven Havens‘ 26-episode run is all that’s deliberate, or if there’s potential for the collection to proceed past the currently-planned two seasons. The Final Airbender and Legend of Korra ran for 3 and 4 seasons, respectively.
The announcement of Seven Havens is only one of a number of tasks that’s now formally within the works at Avatar Studios, the manufacturing home established by DiMartino, Konietzko, and Nickelodeon in 2021 to be the house of a collection of upcoming tasks inside the world of the animated collection. Apart from Seven Havens, a deliberate trilogy of animated motion pictures is within the works, starting with one set to deal with Aang and his mates from The Final Airbender after the occasions of the collection, in addition to potential different tasks that can leverage CG animation over Avatar‘s conventional 2D type.
We’ll convey you extra on Nickelodeon’s plans for Avatar as and after we be taught them.
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