Children of Blood and Bone trailer brings an Avatar: The Last Airbender fan dream to life

Zutara shippers rejoice, because a new magical enemies-to-lovers story is on its way For nearly two decades, Avatar: The Last Airbender fans have imagined a version of the story where Zuko and Katara ended up together. The first trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, released Tuesday, looks ready to bring that Zutara fantasy to life. Paramount’s adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s best-selling novel has its own persecuted magical people, a hero trained in martial arts with a staff who can also wield magic, a tyrannical monarch who wants to wipe out all magic, and — most importantly — a conflicted crown prince who longs for his father’s approval while secretly yearning to do the right thing. Prince Inan (Damson Idris) is functionally identical to Zuko and is sent by his father, King Saran (Chiwetel Ejiofor), to hunt down the magical chosen one. Except instead of a bald boy, his target is a white-haired girl named Zélie (Thuso Mbedu). To Avatar fans, she feels a lot like Aang and Katara fused into a single character. Children of Blood and Bone takes place in Orïsha, a West African-inspired kingdom where magic once flowed through the maji. King Saran violently suppressed it, capturing (and