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Dave Bautista and Eric Nam to Headline Voice Cast for new 2025 ‘Aang: The Last Airbender’ Animated Movie at Nickelodeon (variety.com)

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Dave Bautista and Eric Nam are set to headline the voice cast for the upcoming “Avatar: The Last Airbender” movie in development at Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Studios. The film’s working title is “Aang: The Last Airbender.” The news was announced during Paramount’s slate presentation at CinemaCon.

Joining Bautista and Nam in the voice cast are Dionne Quan, Jessica Matten and Roman Zaragoza. Plot details for the film remain under wraps. Bautista will voice a villain character. The new “Avatar” animated film is set for release on Oct. 10, 2025 from Paramount.

Lauren Montgomery, who worked on the original “Avatar: The Last Airbender” series, is directing the project, with original series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko executive producing alongside Eric Coleman. William Mata is co-directing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Oh? I thought the first time I skimmed the headline they were doing yet another lackluster live-action version, but it's going to be animated? Color me curious.

[–] brucethemoose 3 points 7 months ago

To expand on the other comments, Viacom punted the live action to Netflix to produce forever ago. They didn't care less about the IP.

Then they realized Avatar was one of their golden IPs, and now they have a whole slate of animated content in planning/production.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They've had new animated stuff in the works for a while now. Netflix just recently put out a live action series.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, they have worked on this animated movie for a few years by now. I'm curious what the runtime will turn out to be