News Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender How Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender Is Both a Sequel and a Prequel The animated feature hits Paramount+ on July 25, 2026 By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on July 7, 2026 Credit: Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Paramount+ We have a trailer for the animated feature Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, and in it, we see the characters we know from Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s Avatar: The Last Airbender all grown up. That’s because the feature takes place about 10 years after the finale for the original series. Aang is now roughly 25 years old and, as Konietzko told Entertainment Weekly, “at this precipice between adolescence and adulthood. He’s hot, he’s tall and ripped, broad shouldered, and he looks great, but he’s not quite the adult Avatar that he needs to be yet. So this film is really trying to dive into that.” Looking at the original series, Avatar Aang is a sequel. But the feature is also a prequel to their other series in this universe, The Legend of Korra.   “It’s always a challenge to write a sequel. A prequel is an even bigger challenge,” Konietzko said. “And a ‘se-prequel’ or whatever we’re gonna call it, this other third type is maybe the most challenging.” “The story we told in the series had a very decisive ending,” added DiMartino, talking about the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender. “We didn’t wanna retread stuff. We had told a bunch of stories in the comics. We weren’t really looking to adapt any of those stories exactly, but we had ideas of how the world had developed.” The trailer also hints at some of the plot points: we’re introduced to another Avatar with good bone structure (“Tagah,” played by Dave Bautista), and that there’s an ancient power Aang seeks to save his culture from extinction. The feature also includes the voices of Eric Nam (“Aang”), Jessica Matten (“Katara”), Román Zaragoza (“Sokka”), Steven Yeun (“Zuko”) and Dionne Quan (“Toph”), as well as Freida Pinto, Ke Huy Quan, Taika Waititi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Ronny Chieng, and Ken Jeong. Dee Bradley Baker is also back giving voice to the beloved Momo and Appa. We’ll get to see how that story plays out on July 25, 2026, when Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender premieres on Paramount+. [end-mark] The post How <i>Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender</i> Is Both a Sequel and a Prequel appeared first on Reactor.