Avatar the last airbender new animated series

The first of the three new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated movies has finally been confirmed to release in October 2025.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is easily one of the most popular animated series to explode with Western audiences of all time.

However, the extension of the franchise has always come with a heavy pinch of skepticism following the abysmal live-action movie from 2010 – the less said about that film, the better.

The good news is that three new animated movies are currently in production, with recent confirmation that the first Avatar: The Last Airbender film will release in October 2025 – here’s everything that we know so far.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender confirms movie release

On November 10, it was finally confirmed via Variety that the new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated movie would release on October 10, 2025.

The upcoming movie does not yet have an official title but is described in the report as an “untitled Aang Avatar film” indicating that the movie will be a canon extension of the iconic animated series.

Directing the movie will be Lauren Montgomery, with co-creators of the original series Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino joining Eric Coleman to produce the film.

Unfortunately, it was not confirmed whether the premiere of the film would be in theatres or via an OTT streaming platform. Variety only noted that the production will experience a ‘wide release’ as it was being produced by Nickelodeon Animation, Paramount Animation, and Avatar Studios.

“As original creators Mike and Bryan expand the ‘Avatar’ universe with us, we’re keeping it all in the family with Lauren bringing the same kind of expert, beautiful work she did on the original series to her new directing duties on the forthcoming theatrical.” – Ramsey Naito, Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation President, via Variety.

More good news for fans of the classic Avatar story is that this will actually be the first of three feature films. In June 2022, it was announced that a new trilogy of movies would be produced, although details on the second and third productions currently remain under wraps.

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BREAKING: Avatar Studios' first animated movie, featuring Aang and Team Avatar as young adults, hits theaters on October 10th, 2025 pic.twitter.com/YonTRl6OUh

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Expect plenty more Avatar content to be on the way

As previously noted, there are three new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated films currently in production. However, there is also a push to see a resurgence of the original TV series and popular The Legend of Korra spin-off show.

In February 2021, it was revealed that a new division had been established that would create original animated series, including both Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra IPs.

President of ViacomCBS Kids & Family, Brian Robbins explained how, “Avatar: The Last Airbender’ and ‘Korra’ have grown at least ten-fold in popularity since their original hit runs on Nickelodeon, and Ramsey Naito and I are incredibly excited to have Mike and Bryan’s genius talent on board to helm a studio devoted to expanding their characters and world into new content and formats for fans everywhere.”

“Creator-driven stories and characters have long been the hallmarks of Nickelodeon, and Avatar Studios is a way to give Mike and Bryan the resources and runway to open up their imaginations even more and dive deeper into the action and mythology of Avatar as we simultaneously expand upon that world and the world of content available on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.” – Brian Robbins, via Variety.

Since the franchise’s inception, the Avatar franchise has been met with praise from audiences and critics alike. Avatar Studios, Nickelodeon’s production company in charge of all things Avatar, will release three more animated Avatar films in the future. The franchise was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko in the Nickelodeon series called Avatar: The Last Airbender.

The action-full and adventure-led series first aired in 2005 and ended in 2008. Drawing inspiration from Japanese anime, DiMartino and Konietzko created the Emmy Award-winning series centered on a young boy named Aang, the chosen Avatar, and his friends – Katara, Sokka, and Toph, who help the young Airbender save the nations of their world from the Fire Nation’s wrath. In this world, four elements – water, fire, earth, and air – are controlled by a chosen few. However, only the “Avatar” can channel all four of the elements. Aang, the Avatar in question, finds himself in charge of establishing peace amongst nations and serving as a liaison between the material and spiritual realms. The Legend of Korra was a spin-off series that ran from 2012-2014.

A much-maligned film adaptation of the wildly successful Avatar: The Last Airbender was released in 2010, with the series' first season serving as the basis of the live-action movie called The Last Airbender. Over a decade after the first film treatment, three new animated films are slated to be released from Avatar Studios. In a 2021 statement to EW, the original series creators, DiMartino and Konietzko, stated that Avatar Studios would begin to produce an animated film, stating, “With this new Avatar Studios venture we have an unparalleled opportunity to develop our franchise and its storytelling on a vast scale, in myriad exciting ways and mediums.”

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Three new animated Avatar films are in the works at Nickelodeon's Avatar Studios, according to Paramount and Nickelodeon. The untitled first part, a theatrical release, will be directed by Lauren Montgomery (Avatar: The Last Airbender). Konietzko and DiMartino will return to produce alongside executive producer Eric Coleman. Latifa Ouaou, Executive Vice President of Movies and Global Franchises at Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, will lead development on the first feature together with Jason McConnell, Vice President of Animation at Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation.

Ramsey Naito, the President of Animation & Development at Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, commented on the exciting new adventure, “As original creators Mike and Bryan expand the Avatar universe with us, we’re keeping it all in the family with Lauren bringing the same kind of expert, beautiful work she did on the original series to her new directing duties on the forthcoming theatrical.”

With three films set to release in the coming years, and a separate live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series in development at Netflix – though neither Konietzko nor DiMartino are connected with the project – fans of the Avatar franchise are in for lots and lots of content in the coming years.

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