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Mike and Bryan Talk About Legend of Korra
Posted to Korra News on March 08, 2011 8:13 AM by NightBender
 The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy has been running daily features on the upcoming series The Legend of Korra for the past several days now. Their latest article is an interview with Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the creators of Avatar: the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. According to the article the new series is due out mid-2012 on Nickelodeon, not this November as previously once thought. Here is some good news though; Nickelodeon had originally only ordered 12 episodes for the new series but recently decided to order 14 more shows. WSJ: How far along are you on the new series? Mike: We are in the midst of the first twelve episodes. We’ve written all the episodes. Episodes have shipped to the overseas animations studios and they’re animating away as we speak. So we’re kind of in the middle of things right now…All the vocal cast has been picked and recorded and all the scripts have been recorded. WSJ: Are you looking to win new viewers with the series or just satisfy fans of the old series who have grown up? Mike: We want everyone to watch. Definitely fans of the first series will not be disappointed in this one. The tone is a little older, the characters are a little older than the first series—they’re teenagers. Korra is 16 so she’s older than Aang was. So I think maybe some people who weren’t into the first show might find this one and be into it. WSJ: Since the main characters are older, will there be more romance? Bryan: I thought Korra was 17 so Mike and I have to get our stories straight. The main characters are in their late teens, we’ve always loved those kind of teen love triangle type stories and there was plenty of that in the original series. We’re definitely getting into it in this series. The difference is these people have cars and motorcycles and things. There’s definitely a different dynamic. I’d say the show is more sophisticated than the original series but it has the same balance of tones we’ve always liked with humor, action, drama, scary stuff and romance. WSJ: Will characters from the first series show up in “Korra”? Bryan: Again it’s 70 years later so they’ll appear in various ways perhaps. Mike: There is definitely a link to the old series and the old characters. WSJ: Who is the main villain in Korra? Mike: We have a great villain. He’s kind of an anti-bending revolutionary guy. Very scary dude. And definitely is quite a challenge for Korra.
Head over to WSJ Speakeasy to check out the full interview. 453 Comments
Comment by: dagn96
@ 08:23 am March 08, 2011
Comment by: vickster
@ 08:53 am March 08, 2011
lol at their response about the movie 
Comment by: Matt
@ 09:16 am March 08, 2011
Lol, I love Mike and Bryan. This show will be great!
Comment by: VictorZamora
@ 10:30 am March 08, 2011
Response to TLA question is just perfect. 
Comment by: Johnny
@ 10:42 am March 08, 2011
 I don't get it the main villain of the show is an anti- airbending revolutionary guy and scary. In what way does he represent a great challenge to Korra. Does he have great bending powers or what? I am kind of disappointed on this issue.
Comment by: dphantom88
@ 11:23 am March 08, 2011
@ Johnny
Maybe it's not so much Korra vs the anti-bender, but Korra vs a society that is very much against the concept of bending. That would be very interesting to see the Avatar go up against.
In response to the article I am so pumped for this to come out. And the fact Nick ordered 14 more. 2012 needs to come here NOW!
Comment by: Unknown
@ 12:41 pm March 08, 2011
Can't wait for this. 
cars and motorcycles??? that kinda threw me off... :( but they havent let us down yet so they better make my spazzing worth it!!!
and 2012????? my life wuz bad enough waiting for November!!!! but if it means 14 more episodes i guess i shouldnt complain...
Comment by: Bella Cullen
@ 01:17 pm March 08, 2011
Comment by: Megan
@ 01:24 pm March 08, 2011
So it is called The Last Airbender: LOK then. And there's cars and motorcycles. The more I hear about this, the lest interested I am.
Comment by: LOK
@ 01:34 pm March 08, 2011
@Megan, Just because of the name change, your less interested. And so what if there's cars and motorcycles, I think that is a great idea! You should wait until the show airs before judging the idea of cars and motorcycles (it could be really cool).
Comment by: Musey
@ 01:45 pm March 08, 2011
The more i hear, the more excited I am about this coming out. I totally trust the creators if they say we'll love it. The biggest part I love is the evolution of the atmosphere, how its taking place in this future world. Its good to have it mature. :D
Comment by: Moe_joe95
@ 03:28 pm March 08, 2011
Yes! I am so happy they added another 14 episodes! That makes up for a longer wait.
Comment by: Unknown
@ 04:39 pm March 08, 2011
@ Megan There is more than meets the eye. Cars and motorcycles will not make the show less interesting unless you watch it. I also hope that there will be more than 14 episodes. Don't we all agree ?
Comment by: Seba
@ 05:59 pm March 08, 2011
Cars and motocycles ? whats era is supose to be?
Comment by: NightBender
@ 06:49 pm March 08, 2011
70 years after the original series. Ya know, the series that had tanks and large moving drills and stuff.
Comment by: Inferno320 (formerly known as Avatar320)
@ 07:00 pm March 08, 2011
I'm really excited for the new series! I love the steampunk world (not liking the cars though), and I'm really happy there's gonna be more episodes!
Also, (this has nothing to do with Avatar, but) please wish me luck, everyone, on my presentation tomorrow morning! It would really mean a lot to me if I had my Avatar family to back me up!
Comment by: Sozin
@ 08:03 pm March 08, 2011
Legend of Korra is gonna blow our Mindssss!!!!!!!
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Comment by: Infinidy
@ 08:49 pm March 08, 2011
-SO- awesome. -SO- excited. Seriously. This is going to be great. They do such good work, this story sounds wonderfully compelling, and knowing the kind of work Mike and Brian do, I can just imagine this is going to rock so much.
Comment by: teed0m
@ 09:06 pm March 08, 2011
@unknown
They'll only make more episodes if the show is a hit like A:TLA...
Comment by: Riz
@ 09:27 pm March 08, 2011
Darn, I hate love triangles. They get on my nerves. I hope it's at least like it was in A:TLA, it wasn't that big of a deal. I really hope it won't be some type of Twilight love triangle or *ick* love triangles that are in some anime that just make me want to pull my hair out. xD lol
Comment by: 4everZutara
@ 02:06 am March 09, 2011
They gonna have to hurry up with these new episode to put DragonBall ZKai back in its place. I don't know who told them they could compare to Avatar anyway  (clash of the nicktoons) pft. I was okay the first go around where spongebob beat avatar at the end because "fire benders aren't anything in the ocean" no one really cared cause that was a total joke everyone knew avatar was way better. But now Avatar vs. DragonBallZ is personal
Comment by: Mohammad
@ 03:55 am March 09, 2011
@Megan→I guess they shouldn't have named it "The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra" because Korra is not the last Airbender. "Avatar: The Legend of Korra" is better. If it's because of James Cameron's movie, Nickelodeon got the name first. (I'm typing this from my DSi, yeah)
Comment by: Ali
@ 04:33 am March 09, 2011
I am sorry about my maths but 14 more means 22 episodes in all???
Comment by: abitlate
@ 04:46 am March 09, 2011
Comment by: LOK
@ 05:17 am March 09, 2011
@Ali, 12 + 14 = 26. 26 episodes.
Comment by: Johnny
@ 08:13 am March 09, 2011
The razzies were a big farce but it was not M. Night's fault but of the studio for fU@ing things up after M. Night got the whole movie wrap up. If you like to know the real true about the mess of the movie watch The LAst Airbender (Great movie) Edition clip on You Tube. There you will find the reason why M. Night had to do to salvage the movie. You will be shock.
Comment by: LOK
@ 08:31 am March 09, 2011
@Johnny, that may be true but the movie would have still been bad because the script wouldn't have changed, the new name pronunciations wouldn't have changed and all the other new things that didn't make any sense (like dance movements before bending) wouldn't have changed at all. So it still was M Night's fault, as well as Paramount's, that the movie wasn't good.
Comment by: tenzin
@ 09:52 am March 09, 2011
someone has any news from any second TLA movie???????
Comment by: LOK
@ 10:24 am March 09, 2011
Sorry @ tenzin but I don't think that a second movie is going to be green-lit because even though the first one did pretty decent at the box office, it got terrible reviews. And if a sequel is made (with M. Night still working on it), most fans won't go to see it because they don't trust M. Night and it will probably a bad movie so Paramount would lose a lot of money.
Comment by: DarkBender
@ 01:02 pm March 09, 2011
hmm, i just thought of something... korra is 16/17 and she has already mastered 3 elements...then when did she find out that she was the avatar?
if i remember correctly, avatars find out they're avatars when they turn 16 right....? O_o
Comment by: AvatarRelic
@ 03:57 pm March 09, 2011
@DarkBender, maybe there was something going on that Triggered people to tell her OR she mightve found out herself :O, who knows, Aang got into the Avatar state when he was 12, maybe she mightve accidently gotten into it by Anger, or emotional problems at a young age, making her and people around her discovering she was the Avatar :O
Comment by: Infinidy
@ 04:29 pm March 09, 2011
I think that Korra found out she was the Avatar earlier than normal because the standard order of monks/sages that would have kept the Avatar rituals, like the childs' selection of the toy relics to identify the Avatar, were no longer instated. I doubt that anyone even knew where those toy relics had gone. With the Avatar lost for 100 years, the traditions surrounding the Avatar were lost in greater part as well I'm sure. There was probably no one there to even tell Korra who she was. She might have figured it out from Aang's spirit speaking inside her, or maybe she absent-mindedly bent earth or fire in a flush of emotion. We'll find out of course in the show. This is just my supposition. Oooo! Maybe with Aang learning at age 12, people decided to tell the Avatar of their identity at 12 instead of 16. o_0 Maybe.
/shrug
Comment by: Jans
@ 04:56 am March 10, 2011
Cars and motorcycles are interesting. Bryke are probably gonna twist them in someway that they would have the feel of the Avatar world yet resemble the vehicles they were based on.
Comment by: AdmiralJoe
@ 10:10 am March 10, 2011
Glad to be back now, it's been a while- because there's tons of new news! Last I checked was last November (or 70 years in Avatar Universe- I come back and now there's cars...I slept too long! In an iceberg, likely ) I like the steampunk vibe coming from the new series. fictional Old style mechanical tech I think might look inspired by the ones seen from some of Miyazaki's movies, like "Castle in the Sky"...especially since Mike and Bryan saw Miyazaki's films as one of their inspirations.
Comment by: Omfg!
@ 10:11 pm March 12, 2011
AhhhhhhhhhX10!! Sooooo can't wait! Hope Korra kicks ass!! Sigh we have to wait until 2012......but hey more Korra is worth the wait........
Comment by: BeingGirl
@ 04:55 am March 13, 2011
Comment by: Unknown
@ 05:23 pm March 13, 2011
All we have to do now is to be patient. Patience is the key to everything  .
Comment by: Kea
@ 02:47 pm March 14, 2011
Okay so with there being motorcycles and cars does this mean Korra won't have an animal guide like the pass Avatars?
Comment by: Unknown
@ 04:13 pm March 14, 2011
@Kea
Maybe Korra will have a lemur like Momo.
Comment by: rider28031
@ 08:20 pm March 14, 2011
Sorry, I haven't been around in awhile but this is exciting news! I'm a little thrown off by the slight name change (Though I convinced myself that's an error by WS until a trailer shows), the 26 ep count and cars (!). In all, this sounds badass!
Is it really true that there's an extra half hour of footage that Shyamalan had to cut? If that's the case and if the studio truly made him cut the thing, I may have castrated him over nothing!
Comment by: Raptyr
@ 10:22 pm March 14, 2011
Sokka in the original series was a great inventor.
Blame him and his genius for the cars and bikes.
Comment by: DarkBender
@ 03:04 am March 15, 2011
@Raptyr
so true! Sokka might have been the one responsible for the cars!! xD
Comment by: Sozin
@ 12:53 pm March 15, 2011
Ive been coming to this site ever since since before The Last Airbender (TERRIBLE MOVIE) came out and after that i havent been but now that THE LENGEND OF KORRA NEWS is coming in im now bak on here for good. SO pumped for this!!! WOOOO
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Comment by: 4everZutara
@ 04:12 pm March 15, 2011
HEY YOU GUYS GUESS WHAT ...... you should follow me on twitter @4everBreezy33 lol. (yeah i went there) ill follow back if you ask
Comment by: AANGY
@ 10:39 pm March 15, 2011
YESSSSS MORE EPISODES!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by: BlindBandit
@ 02:03 am March 16, 2011
Just a quick thanks for all the updates. I check this site every day for new info about Avatar, especially Korra, and it's really awesome that you find and compile all this info for people like me.
Comment by: the_water_bender
@ 11:08 am March 16, 2011
hm... "he's a kind of..."
So the villain is a guy again
Comment by: 4everZutara
@ 10:13 am March 17, 2011
follow me on twitter
then I wont be bitter
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Comment by: Unknown
@ 03:30 pm March 17, 2011
HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by: AvatarRelic
@ 08:31 pm March 18, 2011
@Infinidy Or maybe she triggered into the Avatar State like how Aang did when he was 12
Comment by: Yoshi
@ 08:46 pm March 18, 2011
these people have cars and motorcycles and things?? and why does Korra look like a dude?
Comment by: Jinju
@ 01:58 pm March 19, 2011
whoa... "cars and motorcycles and things"
Comment by: Al
@ 05:51 pm March 19, 2011
The show started when I was 15 and now im 21, and it is still on!!! ROCK ON TLA!!!!!!
Comment by: Sharhem
@ 08:16 am March 21, 2011
I am with you Al!! I have grown with this show, and I hope this new season/spin-off/sequel doesn't disappoint!
Comment by: Unknown
@ 01:05 pm March 21, 2011
Comment by: True Avatar Fan
@ 01:28 pm March 21, 2011
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Comment by: Inferno320 (formerly known as Avatar320)
@ 02:06 pm March 21, 2011
Would people please stop with the fucking rick roll'd! I'm so fucking tired of this fucking shit!
Sorry for the fowl language, but on another note, glad to hear about the interview.
Comment by: Janeka
@ 05:48 pm March 22, 2011
niceeeee, I can't wait. Finally some scoop. Thanks Nightbender.
Comment by: CrazyFan
@ 03:38 am March 23, 2011
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