Steven Yeun's role in The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender has finally been revealed!
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Earlier this year, it was revealed that Steven Yeun had joined the cast of The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender in an unannounced role, which has remained a mystery, until now.
Speaking to IGN at Comic-Con International, Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko revealed that Yeun will be voicing Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon Movies and Avatar Studios’ highly-anticipated animated feature film set in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe!
Steven Yeun's role in The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender revealed as an adult version of Zuko:#SDCC pic.twitter.com/pnjc5Iq7G7
— IGN (@IGN) July 28, 2025
Yeun takes over the role from Dante Basco, who voiced fan-favorite character in the series.
Konietzko welcomed Yeun back to the Avatar franchise with arms wide open at San Diego Comic-Con, which took place at the San Diego Convention Center in California. "Steven Yeun was Avatar Wan," he said. "He played the first Avatar in The Legend of Korra. We loved working with him, and we're excited to have him back in the universe."
In the acclaimed series, Zuko is the exiled Crown Prince of the imperialist Fire Nation, which started a war between the previously harmonious nations. The Fire Nation values honor above all else, and Zuko is no exception to this. He originally begins as one of Aang's primary adversaries who pursues him before eventually having a change of heart and undergoing one of the greatest redemption arcs. At first, Zuko was not planned to be part of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, but he went on to become a fan favorite.
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As mentioned above, Yeun is no stranger to the Avatarverse, having previously voiced Wan, the first Avatar, in The Legend of Korra, the follow up to ATLA. Unsurprisingly, Konietzko and DiMartino wouldn't budge on whether Yeun will be playing dual roles in the upcoming Avatar movie as Zuko and Wan.
An Oscar nominee for his work in Lee Isaac Chung’s 2020 film Minari, Yeun recently filmed Ben Affleck’s Animals for Netflix. He recently wrapped production on Joe Carnahan’s RIP, in which he stars opposite Matt Damon and Affleck, also for Netflix. He can currently be seen starring in Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 alongside Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. Other film credits include Love Me with Kristen Stewart, Jordan Peele’s Nope, The Humans, Sorry to Bother You and Okja.
On television, he recently starred in and executive produced the award-winning Netflix/A24 series Beef. For his performance he won Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe awards. Other television roles include The Walking Dead, Tuca & Bertie, Invincible, Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters and The Twilight Zone.
Yeun is repped by WME, Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox and Narrative.
The Legend of Aang will continue the story begun in the critically acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005), which is set in a world divided into four nations — Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation and Air Nomads — where beings called Benders have the power to control their realm’s element. A figure known as the “Avatar” is the only one who can control all four elements.
The series introduced a 12-year-old named Aang, the long-lost Avatar, and the new movie will pick up with the grown-up Aang (now in his early twenties) and his companions some years after the events of the show's finale.
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender is being directed by series alum Lauren Montgomery (Superman: Doomsday, Wonder Woman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths) and co-directed by William Mata (Dora and the Fantastical Creatures), with series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko executive producing alongside Eric Coleman. The voice cast is led by Eric Nam as Aang, Dave Bautista as an unnamed villain, Dionne Quan as Toph, Jessica Matten as Katara, Román Zaragoza as Sokka and Steven Yeun as Zuko. The movie is being produced in association with Domain Entertainment.
The South Korean animation studio Studio Mir, who previously worked with Nickelodeon on Avatar: The Last Airbender spin-off The Legend of Korra in 2014, was recently tapped to work on the film, which will blend 2D animation with modern CG technology to create a unique hybrid look. Australia’s Flying Bark was previously attached in 2022.
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Originally published: July 29, 2025.
H/T: @ThaAvatarist; Additional source: CBR.
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