Avatar: The Last Airbender | Official Trailer | Netflix
Ehhhh.... It's high budget for sure, but I'm just not convinced live action avatar will ever be good. They could've remastered the cartoon with a fraction of the budget.
Honestly, I think this looks well done and I'm excited to watch it! It may not be the original and it may be minorly unnecessary, but it looks done with love and reverence.
It will reach a new audience who wouldn't watch the original because it's a cartoon, and that's great!
I regained my hope when I found out that they left, not actually because of creative differences, but because they were given a ton of money to create a new studio for Nickelodeon to create new Avatar content.
It's one of those rare cases where everyone is a winner!
But apparently it was mainly due to creative control. Netflix wanted to go darker/grittier with possible white actors, explore romances, etc while the original creators wanted it to stay true to the childrens story