As Avatar: The Last Airbender celebrates its 20th anniversary, Nickelodeon is gearing up to continue the story. The network has announced a new series, Avatar: Seven Havens, which will run two seasons and 26 episodes of 30 minutes each.
The new series comes from the original’s creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and is currently in production.
Nickelodeon states Seven Havens is set in “a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm. A young Earthbender discovers she’s the new Avatar after Korra—but in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity’s destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization’s last strongholds collapse.”
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Creators DiMartino and Konietzko said they never thought they would still be writing in this universe 20 years on.
“When we created the original series, we never imagined we’d still be expanding the world decades later,” they said in a press release. “This new incarnation of the Avatarverse is full of fantasy, mystery, and a whole new cast of amazing characters. Get ready to take another epic and emotional adventure!”
Last Airbender debuted on Nickelodeon on February 21, 2005, and was set “in a war-torn world of elemental powers, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.”
The original series consisted of three seasons and 61 episodes.
Seven Havens will be the third Avatar animated series, joining the original and The Legend of Korra, which ran for four seasons between 2012 and 2014.
A live-action Last Airbender movie was released on Netflix in 2024, although DiMartino and Konietzko left that series early on due to creative differences. A poorly received, M. Night Shyamalan-directed, live-action version hit theaters in 2010.
Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra can be watched on Paramount+ and Netflix.
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