SDCC: ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ 20th Anniversary Panel Gives First Look at ‘Seven Havens’

Nickelodeon kicked off San Diego Comic-Con’s smorgasbord of animation panels and events this morning with a celebration of Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s 20th anniversary.

Original voice cast members Zach Tyler Eisen (Aang), Jack DeSena (Sokka), Michaela Jill Murphy (Toph), Jennie Kwan (Suki), Dante Basco (Zuko) and Dee Bradley Baker (Appa), series composer Jeremy Zuckerman and creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino gathered in the San Diego Convention Center to reflect on the show’s legacy and the future of the Airbender universe in a conversation moderated by Janet Varney, the voice of Korra in spin-off series The Legend of Korra. Roughly 5,000 fans packed the room, and were also treated to a video message from Mae Whitman, the voice of Katara.

One exciting reveal was a first-look image from the upcoming new series, Avatar: Seven Havens, which was announced by Avatar Studios and Nickelodeon Animation Studios earlier this year. The series, currently in production at Nickelodeon’s Burbank studio, will be split into two “Books,” each comprising 13 half-hour episodes. Seven Havens is created and executive produced by DiMartino & Konietzko, with Airbender universe veteran Ethan Spaulding as executive producer and Sehaj Sethi as co-executive producer.

Avatar: Seven Havens is set in a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm. A young Earthbender discovers she’s the new Avatar, after Korra — but in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity’s destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization’s last strongholds collapse.