LegendOfKorra3Thanks to the wonderful Michael Dante DiMartino, otherwise possibly known as Leaky McLeakerpants by his partner and Avatar co-creator Bryan Konietzko, we now have the official Avatar: The Legend of Korra Book 3 trailer. This trailer for Book 3, Changes, comes to us early according to Konietzko. Why early? Probably due to Nickelodeons very unfortunate leak of episodes 3-6 of the new season that happened last week (more details on that below). A few details on Book 3 trailer: the music is provided by Jeremy Zuckerman, it was edited by Jeff Adams, the motion graphics were done by Matt Gadbois, and…oh yea! It contains Zuko!!! Check it out below:

 

 

Now as we said earlier, this past weekend saw the leak of 4 episodes of The Legend of Korra book 3 on the Mexican Nickelodeon website, MundoNick. These were the random episodes of 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the new season. Bryan Konietzko recently addressed this on his Tumblr, stating:

Howdy, friends. As you have likely already heard, four episodes from Book 3 were leaked this past weekend. It is bad enough that it happened at all, but it would have been a little less of a disaster had it at least been the first four episodes of the season. Instead, the third through the sixth episodes popped out online, causing confusion and, at least on our end of things, frustration. As you all know, these episodes take a ton of concerted effort from scores of individuals. We craft these continuous storylines and the animation as best we can, and hope that they are presented in a way that allows everyone to enjoy them to the fullest. But when leaks happen, the work we meticulously prepared for the audience is fumbled unceremoniously.

Nickelodeon is obviously a massive corporation with outlets all over the world. These outlets get the episodes in advance so they can translate and dub them for their markets. We typically deliver the episodes to the network quite close to their U.S. premieres, but in the case of Book 3, we have actually already finished the entire season as of last week. The network has some plans in the works for it and needs to wait on its release, so we have been keeping quiet while keeping our noses to the Book 4 grindstone. Unfortunately, the longer the episodes sit on all these shelves all over the world, the probability of leaks increases.

So, yeah… It is unfortunate it played out this way. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer before Book 3 is released properly and with respect to all the people who worked hard to make it and to the audience who wants to watch it.

What we can garner from this and the sudden release of the new trailer is we are quite likely to see Book 3 of Avatar air much earlier than expected. Perhaps just in time for San Diego Comic Con and their infamous Avatar panels, much like we got last year. We also now know that Book 3 had only recently wrapped up, but the creators are quick on its tale with the production of Book 4, which is presumably the final chapter in The Legend of Korra. Exciting stuff indeed! Expect more news on Avatar: The Legend of Korra in the coming months!