Avatar Kuruk will have an expanded role in live-action ATLA Season 1The most recent water Avatar bef
Avatar Kuruk will have an expanded role in live-action ATLA Season 1The most recent water Avatar before Korra, Kuruk, is currently being cast for Season 1 of Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series! Thanks to Knight Edge Media for breaking this news!Avatar Kuruk will have a greatly expanded role compared to the original animated series, where he didn’t show up at all in ATLA Book One: Water, and only had limited spirit appearances in ATLA Book Three: Fire and TLOK Book Two: Spirits. His main story came to us from the Escape from the Spirit World webisodes between ATLA Books 2 and 3 (which was then incorporated into his Sozin’s Comet appearance, meaning the live-action definitely has the rights to it), and then we learned a LOT about him in the Kyoshi novels.The interesting thing, though, is that he’s actually really relevant to the Book One: Water finale, The Siege of the North, due to his and Aang’s shared (literally) history with Koh the Face Stealer, so we could be seeing more of him through that. It’s also possible he could take over Aang’s body like Roku and Kyoshi do at various points.Speaking of Roku and Kyoshi, we know that she’ll also have an expanded role in live action, since she’s also been cast for a sizable part. It’s really exciting that the past Avatars are going to be showing up more, and that the show will likely be incorporating history and backstory that was revealed later to us, the audience, but would have already been known in-universe since it happened in the past. To everyone wondering, Roku will almost definitely be in the show, there just happens to not have been a leak for his casting.We also know that Kyoshi’s actress loves the Kyoshi novels– what we don’t know is whether the live-action series has the rights to adapt the new info from them, which could also potentially apply to Kuruk’s expanded backstory.Kuruk joins Kyoshi, Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee as characters who weren’t really, or at all, in the animated Book One: Water, who will show up and/or have expanded roles in the live-action Season 1 (which also, as a reminder, is covering the same story as the original Book 1). Get hype!Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1 is currently in production, with filming expected to last until approximately June (expanded from the earlier May estimate). The Northern Water Tribe arc will begin filming soon. -- source link
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