The Dragon Prince – New Show Involving Avatar Head Writer
The Dragon Prince will be available on Netflix on September 14, though no official episode order has been given as of yet.
To me it looks very Game of Thrones inspired.
I know a lot of you on here are fans of the cartoon series, Avatar the Last Airbender. Even though it’s a show for kids, there are many spiritual themes that make it an interesting show for adults (and of course metal-gaia readers). Avatar the Last Airbender is set in an Asiatic world where a twelve-year old boy named Aang must master the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water so he can bring peace to the world.
The Dragon Prince is an upcoming American computer-animated fantasy television series created for Netflix by Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond and produced by Wonderstorm.
Ehasz was the head writer and director of the influential animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, and a longtime writer and story editor for Futurama. Richmond is the director of the video game Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. The two co-founded the multimedia production studio Wonderstorm in 2017 with Justin Santistevan to work both on The Dragon Prince and a related video game. Ehasz and Richmond are co-creators and writers on the series, while Volpe, a former director for Avatar, is an executive producer.
The show follows two princes and an elf assassin.
The world of The Dragon Prince, Xadia, already appears to be a rich and diverse one, with a deep lore and interesting basis for its magic system.
According to the panellists, and the episode screened, magic is derived from six natural sources: moon, sun, stars, earth, ocean, and sky. The humans discover the ability to use dark magic, which takes the essence from magical creatures in order to unleash its power. It is that use of dark magic which sets in motion the conflict with the elves and dragons.
When questioned about the possibility of LGBT+ representation in the show, the panel answered that anything specific would constitute a spoiler, but they are trying to create a diverse and inclusive fantasy. This was similarly stated for the ethnic diversity of their cast of characters within the world of Xadia as well.
As for the antagonist in the series, there will be no specific good vs. evil storyline. Unlike the Fire Nation in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the intention for the show is that the sides will be varied, with neither being “ethically homogeneous.”
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