In just a few months, the live-action TV series remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender is set to arrive on Netflix and fans have been excited to see the beloved animated series come to life.
However, this won't be its first rodeo to the live-action space since there was the controversial 2010 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Fans of the original series are hoping that the upcoming Netflix series will avoid the mistakes of its predecessor and that the new version will be more satisfying and faithful to the source material.
Fortunately, it looks like that might be happening since the showrunner of the new Netflix series admitted he's never even seen the 2010 film.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Showrunner Reveals He Has Not Seen the 2010 Movie
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Avatar: The Last Airbender showrunner Albert Kim revealed that he had not seen the 2010 film and purposefully avoided it when he embarked on the Netflix project.
"I'll tell you something, I never watched the Shyamalan movie," he said. "There was a period of time where I thought I should watch it, but then I thought, I don't really want those images in my head as I start to go forward with our version of this project. So I avoided it purposefully."
Kim also noted that, while he avoided watching the controversial live-action film, he is aware of the criticisms it received and the issues that fans have regarding its casting.
"Now, that's not to say I hadn't heard the criticisms of it. I knew what fans didn't like about it in general. but those kinds of pitfalls weren't hard to avoid. For instance, an authentic version of the casting, that's something that we would've done regardless," he added.
"And, to be fair, Shymalan's movie was made at a time when the technology hadn't caught up yet to what the world deserved. So I knew that the VFX was going to be much better than whatever they did anyway."
This could be good news for fans who were concerned that the 2010 movie might have any bearing on the upcoming Netflix series.
We're still months away from Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender series release, but it is exciting to see how the team dealt with the source material.
What we're hearing so far has been promising and it looks like fans might not be disappointed with this new version.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is set to premiere on Netflix this February 22.
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