AVATAR AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER Creators Tease a Secret TV Series Already in Production

Fans of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbenderhave plenty to look forward to beyond this week’s highly anticipated movie.

While the upcoming animated film marks the franchise’s return to the big screen, it sounds like Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are already hard at work expanding the world of Avatar in another exciting way.

Speaking with GamesRadar+ during San Diego Comic-Con, the co-creators revealed that the future of the franchise currently leans toward television rather than more feature films, and they’ve even got a mystery project already in the works.

The Avatar Aang movie arrives in theaters in just a few days, but it was originally intended to be the first installment in a planned trilogy of animated features. Those plans appear to have shifted, at least for now.

DiMartino explained: “There’s stuff in development, just TV shows in production, but not features at the moment.”

Konietzko followed that up with an even more intriguing tease: “We have another secret thing in production, but yeah, it’s on the series side.

“To be clear, we’re series people, so that’s okay to us. Features is a new thing to us.”

The comments confirm that while additional animated movies aren’t currently moving forward, Avatar Studios is far from slowing down.

Instead, the creative team is returning to the format that made Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra such beloved series in the first place.

This isn’t the first hint that something else has been brewing behind the scenes. Konietzko previously teased that the upcoming film was only one piece of a much larger roadmap for the franchise, saying:

“The [Avatar] Aang movie was just one of a whole slate. I’m working on another thing, which we’ll announce when the time’s right.”

Now it sounds like that “other thing” is well into production, even if the creators aren’t ready to reveal exactly what it is.

The timing couldn’t be better, either. After leaking online in its entirety earlier this year, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is finally getting its official theatrical release on July 25.

Fans will soon be able to experience Aang’s next chapter the way it was intended.

The early response has been encouraging as well.

With Comic-Con still underway, there’s a good chance this won’t be the last Avatar announcement we hear this week.

Whether this secret series follows familiar heroes or introduces an entirely new generation of benders, it’s great to know that the world of Avatar is continuing to grow.

For longtime fans, that’s some very welcome news.