Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender Hits Blu-ray, and a Novel Is Next
Aang is back on your shelf. No Appa required.
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is finally on physical media. The animated movie came out on Blu-ray and DVD on November 3, and a 4K Ultra HD SteelBook follows on February 9, 2027 (CBR).
That's not the only Aang release this month. Abrams Books is putting out Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender: A Novel by Allison King on November 10, and it adds new scenes to the story (Screen Rant).
What is Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender about?
The movie picks up more than a decade after the original series, with a grown-up Aang and his friends living in a world that's still rebuilding after the Hundred Year War. Eric Nam voices Aang, with Jessica Matten as Katara, Román Zaragoza as Sokka, Dionne Quan as Toph and Steven Yeun as Fire Lord Zuko. Dave Bautista joins as Tagah, an Airbender who was frozen long before Aang.
Lauren Montgomery directed it, and the movie has a 90 percent score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, plus a 99 percent audience score.
Why did the Aang movie skip theaters?
Paramount first planned a full theatrical release, then moved the movie to streaming. After parts of it leaked online, the studio rushed it to Paramount+, where it started streaming on July 25, the day after fans saw it at San Diego Comic-Con. That's why the Blu-ray is the first time many fans can own it.
What's in the Avatar Aang novel?
The 256-page hardcover costs $30. It's an official novelization, and it adds scenes about the group's work to rebuild the world after the war. Screen Rant's excerpt opens with Aang remembering a race with other Air Nomad kids above the Southern Air Temple, before the memory turns into a nightmare about the temple burning.
My read is that the novel is the more exciting release for longtime fans. The movie had to move fast at 99 minutes, so extra time with these characters in their adult lives is exactly what a book can do well. (Momo, we assume, still steals everyone's food.)
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