Netflix’s live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender” series is undergoing a change in leadership.
Variety has learned that Albert Kim, who developed the series and served as showrunner on Season 1, is stepping down. Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani will lead the show as executive producers going forward. Netflix has already announced the show has been renewed for 2 more seasons, concluding with Season 3.
Boylan served as co-executive producer on Season 1 of “Last Airbender,” while Raisani was an executive producer, director, and a VFX supervisor. Kim will remain onboard as an executive producer for Seasons 2 and three. In accordance with a person with knowledge of the situation, Kim desired to explore latest opportunities following the multi-year development process on “Last Airbender” and has signed a take care of Disney to work as an executive producer on the “Percy Jackson” series while also developing latest projects for that company.
Boylan’s other credits include the hit Peacock series “Poker Face” in addition to shows just like the Netflix-Marvel series “The Punisher,” “Citadel” at Amazon, and “Cloak and Dagger” at Freeform. She can also be an achieved playwright, recently debuting her sci-fi play “Analogue” in London, in addition to a comic book book author for DC, Marvel, BOOM Studios, and Tokyopop.
She is repped by WME, Art/Work Entertainment, and attorneys Erik Hyman at Paul Hastings.
Along with his work on “Last Airbender,” Raisani has done VFX work on shows like “Lost in Space” and “Stranger Things” for Netflix in addition to “Game of Thrones” and “The Flash” amongst many others. He has also directed episodes of “Lost in Space” along with episodes of “Last Airbender.”
He’s repped by CAA and Myman Greenspan.
“Last Airbender” relies on the long-lasting Nickelodeon series of the identical name. The live-action version’s first season starred Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Ken Leung, with Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, and Daniel Dae Kim.
Together with Albert Kim and Raisani, Dan Lin and Lindsey Liberatore executive produce on behalf of Rideback, with Michael Goi also executive producing. Goi directed the primary two episodes, while Raisiani directed episodes three and 4. Roseanne Liang directed episodes five and 6, with Jet Wilkinson directing the ultimate two episodes of Season 1.
