Netflix's ATLA Live-Action Remake: What We Know So Far

This thread will be updated anytime we learn more about the show

Netflix will produce a live-action remake of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series. It is currently slated to release in 2020. Franchise co-creators Mike and Bryan will serve as show-runners and executive producers of the reboot. The cast will be "culturally appropriate and non-whitewashed". Production begins in 2019. Source

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Jeremey Zuckerman will return to help score the new show. Source

There will be an open casting call later this year (2019). Source. As of a May 29th update, the audition details will be announced "soon"-ish

Mike and Bryan are looking to involve Dante Basco in the project.

Giancarlo Volpe, a director on the original series, shared a positive reaction to what preliminary stuff he had seen of the remake. Source/Discussion

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Michaela Murphy a.k.a. Jessie Flower, Toph's voice actor, was interviewed in a podcast July 12th and spoke of things she had heard regarding the series from Mike and Bryan:

-Both Mike and Bryan and Nickelodeon were on the fence about the show at first.

-They are scouting locations, specifically some in Canada.

-They are focusing on North Asian and SouthEast Asian actors for the FN and EK.

-For casting they are looking to do a nationwide/worldwide search.

-"Probably" start casting mid fall at the earliest, and film next spring.

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On August 27 a user who states to have been working on a visual effects test made a post discussing it and shared some pictures.

-Word on set was that most of the show would film on location in Vancouver and Hawaii.

-The user is confident that the actors were temporary stand-ins just for the test, but "James Lew sounded like he either auditioned or was planning to audition" [for the role of Ozai].

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Here is our sub's discussion on the initial announcement of the show.