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Mike and Bryan Talk About Legend of Korra
The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy has been running daily features on the upcoming series The Legend of Korrafor 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.