Paramount+ is meant to be their big push to compete in the streaming wars with DisneyвЂ™s Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ WarnerMediaвЂ™s HBO Max NBCUniversalвЂ™s Peacock AppleвЂ™s Apple TV+ and, yes, NetflixвЂ™s Netflix by Netflix in collaboration with Netflix.ДЄvatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are already on CBS All Access in full, and they, like all the rest of the content on the service, will automatically transfer over to Paramount+. ItвЂ™s a rebrand and relaunch of their current streaming service, CBS All Access. ViacomCBS is launching their big streaming service, Paramount+, on March 4th. Today, ViacomCBS (the company that owns Nickelodeon, and thus Avatar) held theirВ вЂњStreaming EventвЂќ and investor day. With that out of the way, the rest of this post will delve deeper into everything weвЂ™ve learned, including full-length quotes from the people involved.

That is a distilled list of the cold, hard facts from the whirlwind of news that has come out today, from many different sources. ItвЂ™s presumably the current official logo of Avatar Studios. The above image has been included in many articles and official social media posts. One or more Avatar Studios Paramount+ Original SeriesВ will be among the 50 original shows coming to Paramount+ in its first two years. The first project is an animated theatrical film set to start production later this year.

Avatar: The Last AirbenderВ and The Legend of KorraВ co-creators and showrunners Bryan KonietzkoВ and Michael Dante DiMartinoВ are the co-Chief Creative Officers of Avatar Studios.ДЄvatar Studios will create original movies, series, and shorts set in the world of Avatar. I hope youвЂ™ll come along, too.HereвЂ™s absolutely everything there is to knowВ about the big Avatar news from todayвЂ™s ViacomCBS Paramount+ Streaming Event and investor day! Summary of factsДЄvatar Studios is a new studio at Nickelodeon. Authenticity is what keeps us going, both in front of the camera and behind it, which is why weвЂ™ve assembled a team unlike any seen before - a group of talented and passionate artists who are working around the clock to bring this rich and incredibly beautiful world to lifeвЂ¦ But in the end, the reason I decided to do this came down to one thing: Somewhere out there, a young kid is sitting glued to their TV, waiting to be taken on an incredible journey. вЂњBut throughout this process, our byword has been вЂauthenticity.вЂ™ To the story. WeвЂ™ll be expanding and growing the world, and there will be surprises for existing fans and those new to the tale,вЂќ he wrote. Not just in a cartoon, but in a world that truly exists, very similar to the one we live in.вЂќ But rest assured, he doesnвЂ™t want to вЂњchange things for the sake of change,вЂќ or вЂњmodernize the storyвЂќ and вЂњtwist it to fit current trends,вЂќ promising that Aang is not suddenly going to become a вЂњgritty antihero,вЂќ and вЂњKatara is not going to get curtain bangs.вЂќ Kim goes on to say that the live-action version will вЂњestablish a new benchmark in representation and bring in a whole new generation of fans.вЂќ He agreed to come aboard as showrunner because it was вЂњa chance to showcase Asian and Indigenous characters as living, breathing people.

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