Paramount Ditches Theatrical Release for The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, Will Now Go Direct to Paramount+ Instead

Paramount has ditched plans for a theatrical merchandise of The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender successful favour of an exclusive motorboat connected streaming level Paramount+.

The much-anticipated animated movie was owed retired successful theaters connected October 9, 2026. Paramount has present acceptable Paramount+ arsenic the exclusive location of Avatar Studios content, which means The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender and archetypal bid Avatar: Seven Havens are some coming to the platform.

Avatar fans who were looking guardant to seeing the movie successful theaters adjacent twelvemonth are already questioning the decision, which comes arsenic a astonishment successful the discourse of immense container bureau occurrence for anime films successful 2025. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, for example, has grossed an unthinkable $774 cardinal astatine the planetary container office.

Meanwhile, Taika Waititi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Dee Bradley Baker, Freida Pinto, and Ke Huy Quan articulation the antecedently announced formed of The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, which includes antecedently announced Dave Bautista (a so-far unannounced villain), Eric Nam (Aang), Jessica Matten (Katara), Dionne Quan (Toph), Román Zaragoza (Sokka), and Steven Yeun. Yeun, of The Walking Dead and Invincible fame, plays Zuko.

Here’s the authoritative blurb connected The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender:

Avatar Aang, the world's past Airbender, learns of an past powerfulness that could prevention his civilization from extinction. With the assistance of his friends, helium embarks connected a planetary quest to find it earlier it falls into the incorrect hands and threatens to upend the bid they sacrificed everything to achieve.

And here’s the authoritative blurb connected Avatar: Seven Havens:

Set successful a satellite shattered by a devastating cataclysm, a young Earthbender discovers she's the caller Avatar aft Korra — but successful this unsafe era, that rubric marks her arsenic humanity's destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by some quality and tone enemies, she and her long-lost duplicate indispensable uncover their mysterious origins and prevention the Seven Havens earlier civilization's past strongholds collapse.

Avatar: Seven Havens consists of Book 1 (13 half-hour episodes) and Book 2 (13 half-hour episodes). Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko service arsenic co-creators and enforcement producers. We got our archetypal representation of the amusement astatine SDCC 2025, wherever Konietzko confirmed crippled and quality details.

The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise is already hugely fashionable connected Paramount+, wherever The Legend of Korra and Avatar: The Last Airbender are streaming. The archetypal bid ranked among Nielsen's Top 100 most-streamed titles during 17 of 139 weeks since its debut connected the level successful March 2023.

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