Netflix Yip Yips Live Action 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Teaser Trailer And Release Date

Everything changed after the Fire Nation attacked

Here’s a Geeked Week message from the Water Tribe. Netflix has released the teaser trailer for its upcoming live action adaptation of the acclaimed Nicktoon Avatar: The Last Airbender and announced it will premiere on February 22, 2024. It served as the grand finale of Thursday’s Geeked Week presentation.

The trailer sees an offscreen voice, apparently Monk Gyatso talk about how memory allows time, past, present and future to be mixed up. There are limpses of Fire Nation assaults, Aang’s emerging from his icy stasis to Katara and Sokka, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation itself with Dallas Liu’s Zuko inspecting troops, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee’s General Iroh looking on, and Daniel Dae Kim’s Fire Lord Ozai straight up basking. There’s even a look at Suki, played by Maria Zhang, the Kyoshi Warriors, and her intimacy with Sokka. Azula’s seen scene is similarly aflame to her father. The big message? A very Lion King “always remember who you are”. There's no dialogue but that's probably what makes it a teaser.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is set in a mystical world where people can manipulate, or bend, the elements. 12-year-old Aang, played by Gordon Cormier, awakens to waterbenders Katara, played by Kiawentiio, and Sokka, played by Ian Ousley from a self-induced century-long icy stasis to discover that his airbending people have been genocided. The Fire Nation is encroaching on global domination. As the Avatar, who can bend all four elements known at the time, Aang must bring balance to the world and works with his friends to defeat the efforts of Fire Lord Ozai and the Fire Nation.

Albert Kim serves as showrunner, executive producer, and writer. Jabbar Raisani and Michael Goi are executive producers and directors alongside directors Roseanne Liang (also a co-executive producer) and Jet Wilkinson. Dan Lin and Lindsey Liberatore serve as executive producers from Rideback. Based on the animated series from Bryan Konietzko and Mike DiMartino, the series was ordered in 2018. When the original series and its sequel The Legend of Korra (one notably created because they despised the 2010 film and first live action attempt The Last Airbender) arrived on Netflix in 2020 in anticipation of the series, its success was huge. So much that when creative differences on this series had Mike and Bryan depart, they formed Avatar Studios with Nickelodeon to build more franchise out of the original continuity, developing several new series and films, the first of the latter set for release on October 10, 2025. Watch the trailer below.

The release was promised specifically on Wednesday with the series’s first poster, depicting Aang, Sokka, and Katara, with the first full look at winged lemur companion Momo and a tease of Appa, a flying bison too large for the frame at the angle the poster was presented, showing off his horns and very detailed fur.

Now, that February 22 premiere date is very nearly significant, as the original animated series premiered on February 21, 2005 until July 2008 for three seasons and 61 episodes. It will be February 22, 2024 when we find out what was so contentious in the direction that made the original creators depart.