Is Avatar ready to be a modern blockbuster franchise?

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Avatar: The last airlines., Nickelodeon’s action-anime, which has become one of the largest broadcasts on the network during the day. And what better way to celebrate an important occasion from finally revealing a new show –Seven shelters., 2D series with two-season green light and participation by co-creators of franchise Michael Dimartino and Brian Kuneyko. Like previous shows, Refuge He will focus on another young avatar who enters his own, in this case, a young Zemenbder, who turns out to inherit a colored mantle after a cataclysm, including his predecessor Corra, made people protect themselves from anyone with the title.

We have known for a few years that Paramount would very much like to keep Avatar passing like a multimedia franchise. In general, the franchise has never disappeared, even when the difference between the series is significant: along with the separate (but continuing) of Netflix (but continues) live remakeCountless comics and graphic novels have covered what happened afterwards for Aang, Corra and their friends; Video games of dubious quality came out on a semi-conspired (with a more essential on the horizon); And there were a number of YA books featuring prominent avatars from the past like Kioshi and Younghen.

But Seven shelters carries a different weight behind it as one of the first franchise projects, of which Avar studiosS When this and Aang focused Cartoon – The First of the three films to come – free, we will see if Avatar“Sgot What is needed to keep up with the storms, franchise times of our current pop culture era.

When the original Last airplane The series, premiered on February 21, 2005, was in fact something like Western TV, so as not to say anything about the mostly Nick’s comedy staff. For a large part of his young audience, his anime style of art and focuses on the action and storytelling of stories hooked and never really left. And like other fans before them, children from 00 who made Avatar A key part of their identity has proven to be protective from franchise from anyone who does not seem to “get it” hence the long -term bitterness over live movie And the reflexive neglect when more information about Netflix adaptation began to pour. This desire for protection goes beyond live endeavors; Longtime fans will remember how much beating Corra legends The first two seasons (especially the second) have taken, some of which are due to its start as a two-season mini-season, which has become something bigger. His last two seasons have been very improved and upgrade greater events in interesting (and at that time, Very unexpectedly) ways, but the first half can sometimes be a more striking clock than it should, because Dimartino and Koeyko did not have the same amount of track to work with the original show.

Times have changed significantly since Corra Show The franchises turned into 2014 in 2014 have become even more currency in Hollywood, but the studios have not really done the best job by getting out of their own path and leaving the franchises that do what they do best. The movies have expanded to a mixed -score television and not every franchise show is done equally – some are not made as Actual television showsAnd others weren’t really given the time to be right. Corra It had its problems, but at least it was given the opportunity to grow properly; How easy it is to be covered by negative reactions, and real and manufactured in unscrupulousnessHe may not have lasted long nowadays. Franchising has to fight all this plus the opportunity to have to explode Project after project should Refuge Either the movie is doing well or is effective reject aside If or slip even once. If there is one thing we have learned over the last decade, it is that no one is untouchable and does not take much for something that you ever like to lose steam and feel washed.

Original Avatar I was lucky that it was the first and only part of myself in 2005 and that he should live in his own context. After its end, Paramount continued the franchise in a reactive way – either the search for fans and streams, or did not want the last word of the series to be acidic, which could alienate newcomers or prevent veterans from processing. If Dimartino and Koeyko have more stories that they want to tell in this universe, then they obviously have to get the space to do it with the staff that is equally enthusiastic and loving the material. But if the series just returns so that Paramount can Flex what’s up And cut out another franchise for all ages to stand with Spongebob and other brands of the past of childhood? This will cause more damage to Avatar Heritage than any live project could ever.

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