Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of Netflix’s undisputed successes in recent months. Its performance in the catalog, in fact, served to renew it for two seasons and thus be able to finish adapting the story, which is based on the animated series of the same name. But Albert Kim, who was the showrunner and chief creative officer during the first season, has left the project before getting to work on the remaining episodes.
Kim had taken the solo reins of Avatar: The Last Airbender when Brian Konietzo and Dante DiMartino, the creators of the original series, parted ways with the live-action adaptation due to creative disagreements with Netflix.
Now, after achieving 442 million hours watched among the platform’s subscribers and accumulating 61.2 million views (and still being in the top 5 of the most watched series in the English language after six weeks), he wants to turn the page.
As reported by Deadline, he is moving to Disney to work as executive producer on another adaptation with a youth and family profile: the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
His position on Avatar: The Last Airbender will be held jointly by Christine Boylan, who was co-executive producer and screenwriter in the first season, and Jabbar Raisani, who had acted as director, executive producer and visual effects supervisor of the film. series.
Among her previous works, Boylan’s participation as a scriptwriter and producer of series such as Castle, Once Upon a Time or the recent and acclaimed Poker Face stands out, and Raisani’s participation in the visual effects department of Game of Thrones, Lost in Space and Stranger things, where he worked in the fourth season.
