New leadership for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender’ as showrunner Albert Kim steps down

Albert Kim, showrunner of Netflix’s ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, will step down; Jabbar Raisani and Christine Boylan will lead the last two seasons.

Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting a second season, and not just a second season on March 6, 2024, Netflix announced the renewal of the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender for seasons two and three, exactly two weeks after the release of the first season.

Variety has learned that Albert Kim, the showrunner who succeeded founders Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, is also leaving the Netflix live-action series. Co-executive producers Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani, both employed by Kim, will take over as the drama’s third showrunners for the already announced second and third seasons.

Boylan worked as a co-executive producer on Season 1 of “Last Airbender,” while Raisani was an executive producer, director, and VFX supervisor. Kim will remain an executive producer for Seasons 2 and 3. According to a person familiar with the situation, Kim wanted to pursue new opportunities after the multi-year development process on “Last Airbender” and has signed a deal with Disney to work as an executive producer on the “Percy Jackson” series while also developing new projects for the company.

Kim, who will create new projects for Disney once his Netflix deal expires, will serve as an executive producer on the Disney+ series Percy Jackson alongside Jon Steinberg, Dan Shotz, and Craig Silverstein, with whom he previously collaborated on The CW’s Nikita.

Avatar, the Last Airbender Plot: A young boy known as the Avatar must master the four elemental abilities to save a world at war and confront a fierce opponent committed to stopping him.