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HUGE EDIT: Series is officially premiering next year. Here is the summary.

 

The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender and follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang – a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenaged girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra. With three of the four elements under her belt (Earth, Water, and Fire), Korra seeks to master the final element, Air. Her quest leads her to the epicenter of the modern "Avatar" world, Republic City – a metropolis that is fueled by steampunk technology. It is a virtual melting pot where benders and non-benders from all nations live and thrive. However, Korra discovers that Republic City is plagued by crime as well as a growing anti-bending revolution that threatens to rip it apart. Under the tutelage of Aang's son, Tenzin, Korra begins her airbending training while dealing with the dangers at large.

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nickelodeon-greenlights-new-series-from-the-creators-of-the-animated-television-hit-avatar-the-last-airbender-98925659.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100721/ap_en_ot/us_tv_legend_of_korra

 

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Oh and the interview as well.

 

The Wall Street Journal: How did you come up with the idea for the spinoff?

 

Bryan Konietzko: When Mike and I first created “Avatar: The Last Airbender” we always knew it would have an ending to it' date=' that particular story. But as the show really took off, and found an audience all over the world, we knew that despite our intentions of ending that story there would probably be a time when Nickelodeon would come calling and want some more episodes….When that time came we had this idea for jumping ahead and telling a story about the next Avatar, this girl Korra.

 

[b']If there’s a new Avatar, that means Aang has passed on. If he died around age 70, isn’t that pretty young for an Avatar?[/b]

 

Konietzko: You gotta keep in mind that he was frozen in a state of suspended animation for 100 years, so he kind of burned up some of his extra Avatar time.

 

The new “Avatar” is a woman. What inspired you to change the sex of the protagonist of the series?

 

Michael DiMartino: It’s not so much about changing because we had Avatar Kyoshi before Aang. We’d established that the Avatar can be male or female and we just thought let’s explore one of those more in depth, because Kyoshi was a popular character with a lot of fans and it seemed like a great opportunity to not retread what we’d done with Aang, who was a great hero, we all loved him, but we really wanted to try something different. And we have so many great female fans out there, who really responded to Katara in the first series, we thought we have the fan base who are really going to enjoy seeing the Avatar be a female.

 

Konietzko: Mike and I, we love those characters too, and we’ve encountered countless fans who are male who really like those characters too. We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.

 

The one image that you released is Korra looking out on Republic City, where a lot of the new show take place. Tell me about that city.

 

Konietzko: That’s kind of a piece of concept art so when the show premieres next year it won’t look exactly like that but that’s the direction we’re headed. The first series was sort of a road show where every episode they were going to some new location. That was another new thing we wanted to do is root it in one big complex location but mainly one place. We were drawing inspiration from Shanghai in the 1920s and 30s and Hong Kong and even Western cities like Manhattan and even location-wise cities like Vancouver, a city that juts out on a peninsula or an island and has these big mountains around it.

 

Will we see characters from the previous series pop up?

 

DiMartino: I don’t want to give anything away, but rest assured there’s a definite link between the old series and this one.

 

Republic City is a city plagued by crime. There’s an anti-bender revolt. Does this new series deal with more mature themes?

 

Konietzko: Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show. We like dealing with all those things. It’s fair to say we’re dealing with some sophisticated things and the show is growing up a bit. But that said, we’re not in a calculated way trying to target another demographic. Even in the first series, it was about a world war and some pretty serious issues.

 

If Tenzin is Aang’s son, who is his mother?

 

DiMartino: [To Konietzko] We can say that, right? [To Speakeasy] It’s Katara. It’s not a huge surprise.

 

What did you guys think of the live-action version of “The Last Airbender”?

 

Konietzko: We’re just really focused on this new show right now, and kind of taking this off in its own direction and not concerning ourselves with that right now.

 

So you didn’t follow the casting controversy about the movie version of “The Last Airbender”?

 

Konietzko: We didn’t head up that film. We’re just happy to be back generating the original content in this mythology, which is what we do.

 

Would you like to bring a cartoon version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to the big screen?

 

Konietzko: We would love to. I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the “Avatar” world. We would be really excited.

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Look, I loved the original. So I'll at the very least give this one a chance.

 

Who would be the main antagonists in this show? Surely the Fire Nation has been subdued (and their leader trapped and his bending powers taken away), so someone else has to be the villain. Or the firebenders could attempt to rebel or something stupid.

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It's near impossible.

 

The Air nation is now dead.

 

Fire Nation has been subdued.

 

I'm interested though at a female avatar.

 

Well' date=' Korra will apparently be accompanied by Tenzin, Aang's son. So basically her Airbending teacher would be her own son. Awkward.

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she wouldn't be taught airbending by her son. Tenzin is Aang and Katara's son. Korra is not shown to be related to Aang in any way other that through being an avatar

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Toph was one of my favorite characters, along with Iroh. I hope they have characters like them, or at least have some connection to them.

 

Look' date=' I loved the original. So I'll at the very least give this one a chance.

 

Who would be the main antagonists in this show? Surely the Fire Nation has been subdued (and their leader trapped and his bending powers taken away), so someone else has to be the villain. Or the firebenders could attempt to rebel or something stupid.

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Let's just hope Zuko was a good Firelord.

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If there's a chance Sokka is still alive' date=' I want to see him be like the Iroh of the series.

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That'd be funny. I want to know if we'll see Toph after all she was younger then the rest of them.

 

But she wasn't like... significantly younger. She was only about 2 years younger then Aang, and Aang died a good amount of time before the series begins, since Korra's already a teenager.

 

If Toph's alive she's gotta be close to her 80s. By then she could be a completely different character...

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If a $53.3 million holiday weekend proves successful enough to keep M. Night Shyamalan around for a "Last Airbender" sequel' date=' he knows what he wants to do — and he wants to do it darkly. Asked about his intentions going forward, the "Sixth Sense" and "Signs" director confirmed that he has much of "The Last Airbender 2" already mapped out.

 

"I do," Shyamalan told MTV News. "The third is more ambiguous, but the second one, I've written a draft that I'm really happy with and is darker and richer, and it has a wonderful antagonist in it in Azula, who's kind of like our only real, pure antagonist in the series, so I'm excited about that."

 

His description of the story implies that Summer Bishil's character from the film currently in theaters has plenty left to do onscreen as Aang (Noah Ringer) continues his fight against the Fire Nation.

 

As far as what the story will be about and which characters could enter or exit the cast, those decisions may have to wait for Paramount's decision on the franchise's fate. If things proceed, Shyamalan has already shared a few details that could play into his intentions. The elite female Kyoshi Warriors, for instance, will likely play a larger role.

 

"I probably won't show the Kyoshi Warriors because I want to save them for the second movie, because I'm going to have to introduce them all over again," he said while explaining what would and would not show up in the "Last Airbender" DVD and Blu-ray's deleted scenes.

 

The characters were initially included in the first film, but circumstances and editing decisions eventually moved them out of the spotlight.

 

"We shot [the scene'] and [the Kyoshi Warriors] were amazing, and we spent an unbelievable amount of time choreographing them," he said. "And they just distracted from the movie, because the movie wasn't about them."

 

Given that he became much more comfortable with filming in 3-D during his first "Airbender," another round of 3-D filming with the same crew would make sense unless Hollywood's affection for the evolving medium changes overnight.

 

In the meantime, Shyamalan sounds like he's ready to go if and when an "Airbender" sequel gets the go-ahead.

 

Check out everything we've got on "The Last Airbender."

 

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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1643066/20100706/story.jhtml

 

YOU'VE GOT TO BE HUMMING MY BALLS!

 

Also, I'm very anxious for the new series.

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That's a really bad fight. Avatar + benders versus non-benders. Who's going to win; the people with magical powers or the civilians? :/

 

But like I said' date=' I will give it a chance.

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actually Anti-Benders may be people who can Energybend. The creators once called energybending Anti-Bending.

If there's a chance Sokka is still alive' date=' I want to see him be like the Iroh of the series.

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That'd be funny. I want to know if we'll see Toph after all she was younger then the rest of them.

 

But she wasn't like... significantly younger. She was only about 2 years younger then Aang, and Aang died a good amount of time before the series begins, since Korra's already a teenager.

 

If Toph's alive she's gotta be close to her 80s. By then she could be a completely different character...

 

toph was actually the same age as Aang just smaller.

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