The live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series receives a brand-new video, showing a behind-the-scenes look at the cast of the Netflix adaptation.

The latest featurette for Netflix’s highly-anticipated Avatar: The Last Airbender provides an extended look at the live-action TV adaptation of the iconic animated series.

The video highlights the creative team’s vision for the upcoming Netflix series, with showrunner Albert Kim and the main cast discussing what it was like bringing the popular Nickelodeon series to life. It also features new footage from the show, including more action-packed bending sequences. Jabbar Raisani, who’s serving as a director and executive producer, also expressed his hopes of fulfilling fans’ expectations by giving them the live-action adaptation they’ve always wanted.

Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is executive produced and created by Kim, who officially took over the project in August 2020, after original series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko decided to leave due to creative differences. The ensemble cast will be led by Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka and Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko. Season 1 is expected to follow Aang’s journey to mastering the four elements in order to end the Fire Nation’s hundred-year-long rule. Along the way, they will get hunted down by the Fire Nation’s Prince Zuko, who’s willing to do everything in his power to capture the Avatar.

Following their surprising exit from the live-action series, DiMartino and Konietzko continued their partnership with Nickelodeon by launching Avatar Studios, which will allow them to create new animated shows and movies set within the world of Avatar. The first project will be an animated movie which will shift the franchise focus back to the original team. Set to debut in theaters on Oct. 10, 2025, the film will feature grown-up versions of Aang, Katara, Toph, Sokka and Zuko, which fans have been wanting to see for a longtime after catching glimpses of them in The Legend of Korra.

Ahead of the show’s premiere, Kim and some of the cast advised fans to expect a few changes from the original story, starting with Azula and Sokka’s characters. In a previous interview, Kim confirmed that Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender will be expanding Azula’s Season 1 introduction, teasing new scenes that weren’t included in the Nickelodeon series. “We all knew that there were things we wanted to change, but not just for the sake of change,” the showrunner said. “There had to be a reason for the change.” As for Sokka, Kiawentiio recently shared that the creative team has decided to tone down some aspects of the fan-favorite character

According to Kim, the Netflix series will feature darker and mature themes, which would better depict the horrific consequences of the Fire Nation’s tyrannical rule. “I felt it was very important that we needed to see the event, the genocide of the Air Nomads, and this is the event that the Fire Nation attacked and everything changed,” he explained. “We get to portray that and show exactly the horrors that start here and then have lasting repercussions for the next century of the world.”

Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender debuts on Feb. 22

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