New Last Airbender Cast Pictures: Aang, Zuko, Sokka and Katara
Monday, July 13th, 2009 by Specter |New cast pictures have surfaced of each of the primary cast members from The Last Airbender. I’ll post comparison shots later, but for now, here are the four shots.
- Dev Patel as Zuko
- Noah Ringer as Aang
- Nicola Peltz as Katara
- Jackson Rathbone as Sokka
Images Courtesy Last Airbender Fans, Herr-Der-Elemente.de
M. Night Shyamalan Fans






I wanna see Aang smile already!
I hope that they’ll actually LOOK more like Katara and Sokka in the movie than in these pictures!
umm sokka and zuko looks good but i dont like aang and katara
Dev Patel as Zuko looks AWESOME!
Maybe the Water Tribe all became Vikings?
I realy agrea on that both katara and aang don’t look a to promising on these pictures.
I think Katara should have been cast a bit older
Both Dev and Jackson look as if they can pull it off. Not so certain over the others so far.
I also realy don’t like aang’s hoody. He never ever wair’s a hoody in the show. He isn’t a hoody character.
does nicola peltz know marcial arts
why does katara have her book 3 hair was it to hard for the book 1 hair,cause i like the hair loopes
What looks good in a cartoon doesn’t necessarily look good in reality.
that is kind of right but i was expecting the book 1 hair
I was too, but we don’t really know what went in to making that final decision.
well nicole peltz know marcial arts
does nicole peltz know marcial arts
Well, the hair loopies are there–it’s just that the picture cut them off a bit. Click on it to get a larger image. :]
I liked Katara’s Book 1 hair as well, but I don’t mind too much what they’ve done to her hair here.
Though I’d like it if Noah smiled more… He looks so tired and so serious every time I see him. That, and I’m wondering if they’ll make Dev’s scar more prominent in the movie, because right now, it looks barely-there…
Guys, seriously, there’s nothing wrong with Aang or Katara to me. A LOT of you are missing the key points about this movie. They aren’t making this movie to have the characters look EXACTLY like the characters in the show.
Nicole doesn’t need to KNOW martial arts, she just needs to know some basic movements for what ever martial art Water Bending was based off of. In the show Katara NEVER fought hand to hand, she always used water bending. Come to think of it, 85% of the fights in the show are focused on the bending. I don’t ever remember watching the show and seeing Aang or Zuko getting punched or kick frequently.
We know that Nicole, Dev and Jackson are good actors. All we need to worry about is Noah, because this is his FIRST acting role and he is the main character. Please stop focusing on looks and focus more on the acting and storyline. That’s really all that matters; they look relatively close to the characters.
the bending is used has marcial arts. not for punching and kicking.
The Martial Arts involve punching and kicking.
What I mean is that there is not any hand-to-hand combat. For Katara, she’s never “kicked” or “punched” using her water bending, so all Nicole would need to know is the movements that were used for the water bending style. The only characters I’ve ever seen using kicks and punches with bending are firebenders, earthbenders and Aang (airbenders).
That’s correct! Not to mention, they do training and choreography, and do multiple takes, so she can do things until she gets them right.
One thing that people need to keep in mind, as well, is how different people do the same martial art. If you watch a demonstration of a class doing the same thing, they do the same moves slightly differently from one another. They’re close, but it’ll look slightly different based on who is doing the moves. While they based Katara’s (and most of them) on a male martial artist doing the forms for the animation, we have to take into account her size compared to him, and the fact that she’s a girl, and girls tend to do the martial arts slightly differently. A little more fluid in places.
ya katara barly moves when she does her bending
i just heard that noah ringer is quiting the avatar movie and johhny depp is playing has the avatar…:)
It will be amusing to see those comparison shots. :]
you know somthing none of them is smiling,i wonder why? there probly mad at each other
It’s an M Night Shamalon move. Of course they’re not smiling.
haha you got that right
okay…Dev as Zuko should work out, but I think that his scar looks too superficial for someone to have received that mark on purpose…WTH was he thinking with Sokka and Katara. A tanning bed is not going to make them look close enough to the original characters…They couldn’t find someone of either Asian,Black, or Alaskan Inuit descent to play them?…Sokka looks waaaaayyy too serious…and what’s with a serious Aang? I’m having real mixed feelings about where Night plans to go with this…
I am sure Nikola’s martial arts skills will be just as good as Noah’s acting skills.
They attended martial arts and acting camps before filming.
And I read that the stunt coordinator is not a martial arts expert,
so the “martial arts” will be totally different from the specific styles of Kung-Fu,
researched and developed by Mike, Bryan, and Sifu Kisu.
Since the movie is removing the Inuit out of the characters
and replacing it with Anglo-Saxon,
I don’t think Nikola should rock the hair loopies…
The hair loopies were designed based on an authentic Inuit hairstyle.
If M.Night Shyamalan wanted a person more like the character to play Katara he could have picked KRISTIN KREUK for that role. She did an awesome job in Streetfighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. She looks like Katara and moves like her in the movie. He also should have cast the movie with more actors of Asian Descent.The theme of the movie is from Asia. He should not make the same fatal error that was made with “Dragonball Z.” I really hope someone reads this inCA. and remakes the movie as it should be, or there are going to be a lot of dissapointed fans.
Problem with Kristin Kreuk is age. She’s much too old for the part.
Don’t like Dev as Zuko…I reckon the Aang and Katara have great actors cast for them
fingers crossed this movie lives up to thhe cartoon.
I think Aang looks a bit too serious, but that’s a given for a movie… it’s unlikely they’ll have him laughing all the time like in the cartoon. Sokka and Katara look all right, though they could stand to look just a LITTLE more Asian. But Zuko… er… in the cartoon, doesn’t he have, like, SUPER pale skin? Practically the palest out of all the characters? And here, his skin is darker than any of the other characters’. And his scar is barely noticeable. Plus, what happened to the signature colors for each of the nations? Zuko is Fire Nation, so he’s supposed to be in mostly red, Aang in yellow and orange (or whatever Airbender colors are), and Sokka and Katara in blue. Instead, Sokka and Katara are in brown and white furs, Zuko is in some sort of dark blue/black outfit, and Aang is wearing a hoodie (a previous reviewer had a point. Aang NEVER wears a hoodie in the series unless he’s trying a VERY bad disguise.) I really liked the anime series and I hope the movie lives up to it.
where is toph, mae, azula, and suki? also, aangs character looks either too young or too chubby, i can’t decide
Wait what about TOPH??
She isn’t in Book 1 at all.
hey,hey, hey..
see if jesse mccartney as zuko.
its more than patel..
He’s not Zuko.