Azula, Suki, and More AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Cast Members Announced

Roughly a month ago, Netflix announced some new casting for their live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Then, last week, we got five more cast members revealed. Azula, the ruthless daughter of Firelord Ozai (Daniel Dae Kim) and sister of Zuko (Dallas Liu) will be played by Elizabeth Yu (All My Love); Maria Zhang (WorkInProgress) will portray the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors, Suki; my favorite Avatar, Avatar Kyoshi, will be played by Yvonne Chapman (Kung Fu); Suki’s mother and mayor of Kyoshi Island, Yukari, will be played by Tamlyn Tomita (Cobra Kai); and Casey Camp-Horinek (Reservation Dogs) will play Gran Gran, Katara (Kiawentiio) and Sokka’s (Ian Ousley) grandmother who also serves as matriarch of the Southern Water Tribe.

Here’s a previously released synopsis:

The Last Airbender takes place in a fantasy world, home to humans, fantastic animals, and supernatural spirits. Human civilization is divided into three pre-industrialized nations, the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, and the Air Nomads, and one industrialized nation, the Fire Nation, capable of manufacturing various kinds of machines. Within each nation, an order of men and women called 'Benders' have the ability to manipulate their native element.

These Bending arts combine a certain style of martial arts and elemental mysticism. The Bending types are Waterbending, Earthbending, Firebending, and Airbending. In each generation, one person is capable of Bending all four elements; this is the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. When the Avatar dies, he or she is reincarnated into an unborn baby native in the next nation in the Avatar Cycle, which parallels the seasons: winter for water, spring for earth, summer for fire, and autumn for air.

While legend holds that the Avatar must master the elements in order, starting with their native element, this can sometimes be compromised when the situation requires it. Learning to bend the element opposite one’s native element is extremely difficult because opposing Bending arts are based on opposing fighting styles and doctrines.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is currently filming in Vancouver and is said to be an adaptation of the wildly popular animated series. Albert Kim serves as executive producer, showrunner, and writer. I’m still not confident in this series being great and I still don’t think that it was needed, but the casting has been killer! Are you excited for the live-action Avatar series?

Via: Variety