It wasn’t an easy task to reimagine Avatar: The Last Airbender as a live-action series for Netflix, and showrunner Albert Kim has spoken about the challenges of the process.Now streaming on Netflix, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a live-action reimagining of the original animated series. With the change in mediums, there have been some key differences in the new adaptation compared to the original show. Speaking about the series with THR, Albert Kim said how it was impossible to make an adaptation that was as faithful as he’d have really wanted it to be, as the budget just wasn’t there to realize certain scenes in live-action. Kim also suggested that he understands the disappointment some fans might feel over missing scenes or characters in the new version, but the switching to a totally different format necessitates these changes.He added, “I wish we could have done all of them, but there’s the reality of creating eight-hour-long episodes for a serialized drama and also expanding the world in places and telling new parts of the story that hadn’t been told before. That takes up time. I think people think it’s as easy as saying, ‘Well there are 20 half-hour episodes of the original. That’s 10 hours. And there are eight one-hour episodes of the new show, so they only needed to make two more episodes.’ But it’s not exactly one-to-one there, so that was the process we went through.”
It wasn’t an easy task to reimagine Avatar: The Last Airbender as a live-action series for Netflix, and showrunner Albert Kim has spoken about the challenges of the process.
Now streaming on Netflix, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a live-action reimagining of the original animated series. With the change in mediums, there have been some key differences in the new adaptation compared to the original show. Speaking about the series with THR, Albert Kim said how it was impossible to make an adaptation that was as faithful as he’d have really wanted it to be, as the budget just wasn’t there to realize certain scenes in live-action. Kim also suggested that he understands the disappointment some fans might feel over missing scenes or characters in the new version, but the switching to a totally different format necessitates these changes.
He added, “I wish we could have done all of them, but there’s the reality of creating eight-hour-long episodes for a serialized drama and also expanding the world in places and telling new parts of the story that hadn’t been told before. That takes up time. I think people think it’s as easy as saying, ‘Well there are 20 half-hour episodes of the original. That’s 10 hours. And there are eight one-hour episodes of the new show, so they only needed to make two more episodes.’ But it’s not exactly one-to-one there, so that was the process we went through.”
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