Details about the new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie have officially been unveiled. The now sprawling franchise originated with the iconic Nickelodeon animated series, which ran for three seasons between 2005 and 2008. It followed the avatar Aang, an airbender who needed to learn to harness the powers of all four elements to defeat the tyrannical Fire Kingdom.

Screen Rant was in attendance at CinemaCon, where a recent panel revealed updates on the new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie. The animated film is set to feature the return of iconic characters Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, Toph, now more grown up and aged around their 30s. No further details about the project are known at this time.

The Avatar: The Last Airbender Timeline Explained

The new The Last Airbender film isn't the first time that the main characters have been seen as adults in the franchise. However, it occupies a slightly different place on the timeline. In the animated canon, it will lie somewhere between the events of The Last Airbender and the spinoff series The Legend of Korra.

The Avatar: The Last Airbender timeline is straightforward, as the original series follows Aang and the gang while they are young and only covers a short period of their lives. The Legend of Korra, however, takes place long in the future. While it features storylines that reveal what the adult Last Airbender characters have been up to, Korra's timeline comes after Aang's death because that allows the avatar to be reincarnated as Korra.

The new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie will likely take place before most of the adult events depicted or referenced in The Legend of Korra. The exact nature of the conflict that the characters will need to quell is unknown, as their exact ages have not been revealed yet. However, it is likely to be a new original story that hasn't been covered extensively, but perhaps may have been briefly hinted at during the events of Korra.