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Netflix’s ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Boss Explains Changes From the Original: Heightened Violence, Bumi Battle and More
Netflix's 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creator explains changes from the original, like the increased violence of the war and Aang's fight with Bumi.
This scene takes place just five minutes into the premiere of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” Netflix’s live-adaptation of the Nickelodeon series of the same name that was originally animated, widely acclaimed and, notably, made for children. “It was really important that we start that way,” says showrunner Albert Kim of the bold move to open his version of the story with such a stark image of Fire Lord Sozin’s (Hiro Kanagawa) brutality. The episode goes on to to depict the how the Hundred Year War began; the original series constantly nodded at the Fire Nation’s genocide against the Air Nomads, but it was never put on screen in such detail.
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