The time has finally come for the next Avatar. It has been officially confirmed that animated following the story of the Earth Avatar after Korra will officially be coming to Paramount+ in 2025. It is currently unknown if it will be available to watch on Nickelodeon proper or if the original creators of the series are involved in the project.
More updates are expected very soon.
BREAKING: It's happening. An original animated series following the next earth Avatar in the cycle after Aang and Korra is coming in 2025 from Paramount and Avatar Studios.
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— Avatar News (@AvatarNews_) December 23, 2022
The Avatar After Korra and More: What We Know So Far About The Future of Avatar
The original Avatar: The Last Airbender series officially premiered on Nickelodeon on February 21, 2005, and ran until July 19, 2008. Next year will mark the franchise’s 18th anniversary.
The sequel series, The Legend of Korra, aired from April 14, 2012, until December 19, 2014, and next year will mark its 9th anniversary. Now, it has been confirmed that the next Avatar series will be underway in 2025, and will focus on the Earth Avatar that will succeed Korra in the Avatar Cycle.
The Avatar Cycle follows the four elements: fire, water, earth, and air, and repeats in that order whenever the current Avatar dies and they are reincarnated, as per the series lore. There is currently an official release window in 2025 for the next Avatar series, but it is possible that will be after many of the other projects Avatar Studios has in the works.
It is also unconfirmed when the series itself will take place in the greater Avatar timeline. The Legend of Korra took place 70b years following the conclusion of the original series, so it is very possible that this series will take place at a similar point in the future, give or take a few decades. This would put the era of the next Avatar series relatively close to our own time, as the Legend of Korra is intended to be equivalent to the 1920s.
Avatar Studios is a production company announced by Paramount+ back on Frbuyeary 21, 2021, and co-launched by Nickelodeon with Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, the original creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender. They both serve as co-chief creative officers for the studio, with the goal of procuring the larger AVatar universe in the form of new animated content, such as shows, movies, and spin-offs.Â
The first of these will be an animated theatrical film that will focus on the “Gaang” in their adult years, the “Gaang” being the original Team Avatar in The Last Airbender. It consists of Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, Toph, Suki, Momo, and Appa. The film is expected to be released on October 10, 2025.
Unrelated to Avatar Studios, Netflix is also working on its own live-action remake of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series, which is expected to premiere sometime next year.
