Avatar: Kyoshi (2024), Zuko (2025), Korra (2026)

[thechase]

Paramount and Avatar Studios’ slate of animated Avatar movies coming to theaters: Kyoshi (2024), Zuko (2025), Korra (2026)

It’s the post you’ve all been waiting for. I’ve finally compiled, confirmed, and cross-referenced enough sources to feel confident in posting what Avatar Studios’ first three movies are about, in what order, and (with a big grain of salt, okay?) when they’re coming.



You might be aware that there’s been a flurry of Avatar Studios news out of the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the last few days– they revealed that three movies are actively in the works right now, they confirmed my report on the director of the first movie, and they showed the first teaser for it to the press in attendance.



Let’s tackle that teaser first. After checking with a couple of sources who were in attendance, we’re pretty sure that what was shown was General Fong’s fortress, which was first visited by Aang and the Gaang in Avatar: The Last Airbender Book Two: Earth, Chapter One: The Avatar State.


It was either this exact clip/screencaps from the original, or something very similar. That visual was followed by text saying “the Avatar returns” (a popular tagline these days) and the earthbending symbol. Which brings us to…



The first animated movie coming from Avatar Studios is the prequel I reported on before, and it’s a “prequel” because it stars the most recent earth Avatar before Aang and Korra: Avatar Kyoshi.



Next, I can confirm that the second movie will be the one I exclusively revealed last month: a story focused on Fire Lord Zuko.



Lastly, and this is a brand-new reveal, the third movie is set in the era of Avatar Korra, after the end of the animated series.



I should note that these are all very high-level descriptions, for example I don’t know the exact focus of the Korra era movie, although I’d personally be willing to bet it will be Korra herself. But ultimately, I guess I should put a disclaimer that I don’t know that level of detail, except for the specific case of the Zuko movie being about Zuko himself. Technically, I don’t know that the Kyoshi movie will “star” her, but I can’t really imagine it won’t, you know?



AS FOR THE DATES. I debated whether to put them or not, but I decided to make things spicy and go for it this time. I want to make it clear that these are NOT my estimates, they are legit info cross-referenced from at least two sources, but…… it’s really early info subject to change and not meant to be any sort of commitment from anyone. I just figured that by the time we get to these years, no one will remember this post. 😂 Release dates could shift around as they almost always do in this day and age, but it’s just because that’s a natural thing that happens. So with all that being said, you can very vaguely look forward to animated Avatar movies coming to theaters once a year starting in 2024, with the first three being:



Kyoshi (2024)

Zuko (2025)

Korra (2026)


(Obviously those are not the movies’ titles.)



This next part is my estimate: I would personally expect LATE 2024 for the first one. Again, it’s super early. As for the rest: again, big grain of salt. As production goes on, maybe they’ll decide they want to do every two years instead, or any number of things that could lead to the slate changing.



It’s just really important to understand that this is just a snapshot of Avatar Studios’ CURRENT plans– their NOT announced, NOT confirmed plans. I wouldn’t announce or confirm anything this early either, and there’s a good reason they aren’t– they haven’t even revealed their first ever movie yet, much less committing to a slate. So please keep all that context in mind; don’t expect them to reveal anything about any Korra movie any time soon– there are two movies before that that probably won’t even reveal anything any time soon. That being said, this is legit info and not just speculation/guessing, and it also might NOT change. I think release dates are honestly highly likely to change, but I don’t think it would be unlikely if the three high-level concepts of Kyoshi/Zuko/Korra stay the same. Assuming my sources are correct about those in the first place of course.



Alright, that’s enough disclaimers, I’ll let you run amok now. And yeah. KORRA’S BACK.

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[Lizuka #BLM]

I'll probably see these but I feel like this franchise if it's going to continue would be a lot better served either jumping way into the past or way into the future, honestly. Setting it around Avatar or tying directly into it kind of puts it at a really unfair disadvantage in terms of public perception - even if honestly, while it's largely an excellent show throughout, I do feel like a lot of the love Avatar gets is primarily due to season 2 and seasons 1 and 3 aren't nearly as impressive - and Korra kind of just has so many stupid worldbuilding choices and so much power creep that I feel like anything trying to be a direct follow-up or tie-in to it is kind of forced to either 1), get completely stupid (honestly a lot of the time Korra already does) or 2), feel drastically lower in stakes.

Though really I think the overall quality of these will probably depend a lot on who's writing them. Season 3 of Korra is head and shoulders above the rest of the show and that's probably in part due to having much less of the workload being done by the creators of the shows than the first two seasons.

[HMARK Center]

Years ago there was talk of doing a TV movie based around Iroh's experiences during the siege of Ba Sing Se, and I can't help but still want to see that done.

Curious how much the comics play a role in any plots they come up with, as well.

[G✇JI☈A]

Guessing the Kyoshi story will be adapted from the two novels that came out recently.

[schma]

Back when the original show first ended there had been plans for a TV movie of Zuko looking for his mother. They eventually did it in comic form but I wonder if they would go that direction here.

[BorneAgain]

Jun 18, 2022 18:23:34 GMT -5 schma said:

Back when the original show first ended there had been plans for a TV movie of Zuko looking for his mother. They eventually did it in comic form but I wonder if they would go that direction here.

A broad strokes adaptation of the Search/Smoke and Shadow could be really effective if done well.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Do I constantly have to be made to feel stupid for actually enjoying all four seasons of Korra unirionically?

I thought her character progression throughout the show made sense. She was a cocky, often angry and confused teen and her decisions reflected that.

[The Legend of Groose]

Zuko has me very interested. The other two I'm kind of meh over.

[schma]

Jun 19, 2022 8:18:33 GMT -5 BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps said:

Do I constantly have to be made to feel stupid for actually enjoying all four seasons of Korra unirionically?

I thought her character progression throughout the show made sense. She was a cocky, often angry and confused teen and her decisions reflected that.

There was a lot of great stuff in Korra. It was different from TLA but that was partly due to Nikolodeon. The first season they had no idea if they would get any more episodes. The shorter seasons meant less time spent on character development. Still TLA would be a hard act to follow. It includes some of the best character development in any tv series, animated or live action. There were times where Korra rushed things, beats that should have been given breathing room, but overall it was a worthwhile addition to the franchise.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I think Korra's more good than bad but it does have its issues. Season one doesn't really hold up to logic at all if you think about it at all, in large part because Tarlok's actions only make the slightest bit of sense if he is Amon which he isn't and a gigantic amount of time is wasted on probending which they never really give you any context as to the rules for or any reason you should care about it, but it's still very watchable and despite stupid parts of his plan Amon is still a great villain. Season two sucks, but they were in kind of an awkward position with having to rework everything from a one and done to a new season and it does have its highlights like the story of the first Avatar, seeing Iroh again, and the introduction of Varrick (even if his storyline in season two is pretty much a total waste of time in the long run). Season three's for the most part very good and I'd probably call Zaheer the outright best Avatar villain, could nitpick it but think it's a lot better than not. Season four's pretty messy and cluttered but still largely pretty solid, with most of the main problems I'd point to with it being that it tries to juggle too many balls at once with how expansive the cast has gotten that point, the villains - especially Kuvira's boyfriend who's an irredeemable asshole the entire season and then just face turns out of nowhere for no real reason - just not being very interesting and needing the plot to bend over backwards to help keep them threatening, and an issue that's kind of haunted the whole franchise of the lingering question of, "Why would we want to be friends with the spirits, they're all always assholes all the time," that gets really brought to the forefront in that season.

On the whole it's a good show, but a clumsy show that has its issues. I'm sure season 3 seemingly being the only one that was a smooth production probably is a big part of the reason it's the best one, between Nickelodeon jerking them around constantly on how long the show would be and kicking them to the website and slashing the budget in season 4, but the show still is what it is.

That said a consistent problem the whole show has is elevating the threat levels of everyone and everything so much that it just gets stupid and out of hand. Like the last episode we just pull a giant mech out from nowhere and need a whole army to bring it down and like, what are we even doing anymore?

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Jun 19, 2022 14:22:58 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

I think Korra's more good than bad but it does have its issues. Season one doesn't really hold up to logic at all if you think about it at all, in large part because Tarlok's actions only make the slightest bit of sense if he is Amon which he isn't and a gigantic amount of time is wasted on probending which they never really give you any context as to the rules for or any reason you should care about it, but it's still very watchable and despite stupid parts of his plan Amon is still a great villain. Season two sucks, but they were in kind of an awkward position with having to rework everything from a one and done to a new season and it does have its highlights like the story of the first Avatar, seeing Iroh again, and the introduction of Varrick (even if his storyline in season two is pretty much a total waste of time in the long run). Season three's for the most part very good and I'd probably call Zaheer the outright best Avatar villain, could nitpick it but think it's a lot better than not. Season four's pretty messy and cluttered but still largely pretty solid, with most of the main problems I'd point to with it being that it tries to juggle too many balls at once with how expansive the cast has gotten that point, the villains - especially Kuvira's boyfriend who's an irredeemable asshole the entire season and then just face turns out of nowhere for no real reason - just not being very interesting and needing the plot to bend over backwards to help keep them threatening, and an issue that's kind of haunted the whole franchise of the lingering question of, "Why would we want to be friends with the spirits, they're all always assholes all the time," that gets really brought to the forefront in that season.

On the whole it's a good show, but a clumsy show that has its issues. I'm sure season 3 seemingly being the only one that was a smooth production probably is a big part of the reason it's the best one, between Nickelodeon jerking them around constantly on how long the show would be and kicking them to the website and slashing the budget in season 4, but the show still is what it is.

That said a consistent problem the whole show has is elevating the threat levels of everyone and everything so much that it just gets stupid and out of hand. Like the last episode we just pull a giant mech out from nowhere and need a whole army to bring it down and like, what are we even doing anymore?

I didn’t care about the power creeps in DBZ and I didn’t mind it here, honestly.

[BorneAgain]

Korra is solid for the most part, but the love triangle really hinders a lot of potentially good arcs and the issues created by Nickelodeon screwing them around are obvious even in first viewings, let alone in rewatches. Enjoyable show, just with a lot of lost potential.

[Lizuka #BLM]

["Trickster Dogg" James Jesse]

Feb 22, 2024 17:53:25 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

I'd like to see the franchise move forward rather than backward. I'm not in principle against stories about Kyoshi, Zuko, and Korra, but I want to see a cyberpunk Avatar world with an earthbending Avatar who fights using metalbending Gundam mechs. And maybe aliens invade, and they bring new elements with them.