Dave Bautista and Eric Nam to Headline Voice Cast for ‘Aang: The Last Airbender’ Animated Movie at Paramount, Nickelodeon
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Dave Bautista will lead the voice cast of Paramount and Nickelodeon's new animated "Avatar: The Last Airbender" movie.

Dave Bautista and Eric Nam are set to headline the voice cast for the upcoming “Avatar: The Last Airbender” movie in development at Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Studios. The film’s working title is “Aang: The Last Airbender.” The news was announced during Paramount’s slate presentation at CinemaCon.

Joining Bautista and Nam in the voice cast are Dionne Quan, Jessica Matten and Roman Zaragoza. Plot details for the film remain under wraps. Bautista will voice a villain character. The new “Avatar” animated film is set for release on Oct. 10, 2025 from Paramount.

Lauren Montgomery, who worked on the original “Avatar: The Last Airbender” series, is directing the project, with original series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko executive producing alongside Eric Coleman. William Mata is co-directing.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    To expand on the other comments, Viacom punted the live action to Netflix to produce forever ago. They didn’t care less about the IP.

    Then they realized Avatar was one of their golden IPs, and now they have a whole slate of animated content in planning/production.