‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ vs ‘Avatar’: The lawsuit the Nickelodeon series avoided James Cameron

In 2005 Nickelodeon released ‘Avatar the last airbender’, a title that has become one of the most-watched animated series in the history of the children’s channel, a production that months after its premiere, was forced to change its original name to avoid a lawsuit by none other than the winning director of the ‘ Oscar , James Cameron, who at that time was preparing one of the highest grossing films in the history of cinema, ‘Avatar’.

The cartoonist and animator of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, Giancarlo Volpe, revealed in a recent interview that this Nickelodeon original animated series It only had the name “Avatar”, however, as you can imagine, the production focused on the last airbender decided to change this title because James Cameron already had the rights to this name.

For this reason, the official name of this the animated series is ‘Avatar the last airbender’, a title which, we now know, he received to differentiate himself from the james cameron moviewhich, although true, was released until 2009, however, the Oscar-winning director has been working on this project since the late 90s.

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No doubt,’Avatar the last airbender’ would have generated confusion with the premiere of ‘Avatars’ by James Cameronsince millions of fans, seeing the title of the film of the blue creatures of Pandora, would surely have thought of the story of the last airbender, so taking into account that the lawsuit never came, the title change seems to be a success.

“Avatar” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in 2022

Currently, both productions are remembered as two of the most successful titles in the film industry, since, as we have pointed out, the james cameron movie is the highest-grossing film in history, which, 13 years later, has released a sequel in theaters worldwide, since ‘Avatar: El Camino del Agua’ arrived this December.

Similarly, Cameron confirmed that this production will have more spin-off tapes, so there is still a lot to see on the big screen about the creatures of Pandora, on the other hand, the animated production ‘Avatar: The Legend of Aang’, in this 2022 is producing new titles set in the world of the last airbender.

Currently, Nickelodeon Y Avatar Studies They are preparing no less than 3 animated films about the world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, also don’t forget that Netflix is ​​producing a live action series adapting the story presented by this animated production, so no doubt the future for these points franchise be very promising.