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The Big Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender Producer Interview: 'This Is a Remix, Not a Cover' - IGN

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IGN sits down with Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender showrunner and executive producer for a wide-ranging interview about the changes they're making, the cast, the pressures of taking on ALTA, and a lot more.

The Big Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender Producer Interview: 'This Is a Remix, Not a Cover' - IGN

I think one of the big questions is, despite all the remixing, is the point A and the point B still the same as the original?

AK: Pretty much. Yeah, I mean, I think the state of the world and the stakes of the world are still the same. So we decided to make Aang's narrative drive a little clearer. In the first season of the animated series, he's kind of going from place to place looking for adventures. He even says, "First, we've got to go and ride the elephant koi." It's a little looser as befits a cartoon. We needed to make sure that he had that drive from the start. And so, that's a change that we made. We essentially give him this vision of what's going to happen and he says, "I have to get to the Northern Water Tribe to stop this from happening." That gives him much more narrative compulsion going forward, as opposed to, "Let's make a detour and go ride the elephant koi," that type of thing. So that's something, again, that's part of the process of going from a Nickelodeon cartoon to a Netflix serialized drama.

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