'Avatar' Aang Movie Serves Combination Platter Of A Title Reveal At CinemaCon
The four elements of title reveals have converged. Prepare for the Avatar State.
If you were looking for a logline or new stills released for Nickelodeon and Paramount’s animated movie from Avatar Studios continuing the story of Avatar Aang and his friends from the beloved 2005-2008 Nicktoon Avatar: The Last Airbender, you’re out of luck. However, what Paramount did bring to CinemaCon was arguably the bare minimum: they revealed the title.
Accompanying general loglines about the Avatar and the world the franchise takes place in, the movie’s official title is revealed to be The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender. To any fan of the franchise, this is probably the most bland title they could come up with. It combines the subtitle the show uses domestically with the one that places where “bender” has derogatory context uses, The Legend of Aang. It was a subtitle (format) that went global in usage for the first spinoff series The Legend of Korra, which ran from 2012 to 2014, largely because of James Cameron’s Pandora-set Na’vi-populated film series from 20th Century Studios. Now this film title tells nothing about the plot of the movie, though for a while beforehand, the film was known simply as Aang: The Last Airbender. In my personal opinion the adding of The Legend of isn’t the most ideal addition, but it is a slight improvement.
Steven Yeun, Voice Of First Avatar Wan, Joins Older Gaang 'Avatar' Film
There’s like, no way they’ve forgotten, right? Steven Yeun, who voiced the original Avatar Wan in the Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel series The Legend of Korra, has joined the franchise’s upcoming animated film from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies
The majority of the cast was announced at last year’s CinemaCon, K-Pop star Eric Nam as Aang, Dark Winds star Jessica Matten as Katara, American Ghosts star Roman Zaragoza as Sokka, and Nickelodeon legend Dionne Quan as Toph. This year, the recently-reported casting of Steven Yeun was confirmed, but not his role. Directed by Lauren Montgomery and co-directed by William Mata, it is produced by Maryann Garger, Latifa Ouaou, and original series creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. The film is set for release on January 30, 2026.
“Family films are an integral part of our strategy here at Paramount,” said Paramount Animation’s president Ramsey Naito. Speaking of titles, that for the developing sequel for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem has remained close to the corporate chest.
'Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse' Finally Spins A 2027 Release Date Out Of CinemaCon
On June 2, 2023, Sony Pictures Animation released Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, unleashing it on a $690 million box office run. It’s a month into the Writers Guild of America strike but its sequel,
Source: Variety