A great new interview with The Legend of Korra creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko has been released, and the pair enter into some serious detail about the show!
The discussion was conducted by Speakeasy. Below are some highlights from the Q&A that stood out to us, but we encourage you to check out the full interview for a lot more.
On the season finale:
What should fans expect from the season finale?
DiMartino: They can definitely expect more awesome stories, and a few more surprises for sure.Konietzko: We’re really proud of the way the last two episodes came together—especially how the music came together. It’s some of the best music that the composer, Jeremy Zuckerman, has ever done. Really emotional, and we’re really excited to see how people respond to the end of this little story.
On the show’s music and it being released:
Will the music from the show ever be released?
Konietzko: We would love to. It’s something we’ve been pushing for for years, even back on “Avatar.” Especially now with the music on “Korra” where Jeremy has been incorporating a lot more live instrumentation, string performers, Chinese instrumental specialists and stuff like that. We would love to. It’s a big goal of ours for sure.
On season two:
How far along are you with season two? Is it still scheduled to be 14 episodes?
DiMartino: Yeah, book two is fourteen episodes. We’ve just finished the writing on it and we’re just in the middle of storyboarding and animation and every other thing we have to do to get it to a viewable state.Konietzko: A lot of work goes into these shows. It takes a long time on animation. With “Korra” we’ve really taken a lot of time to craft it. We’re aiming pretty high, and in order to keep up the quality it just takes a lot of time and a lot or work…I think people are like, okay, what’s next? We’re like, guys it took us two years to make that, come on, we’re still working!
DiMartino and Konietzko go on to say that they do have ideas for story lines beyond season (book) two in the Korra series, but it’s too early to say when/if those will actually happen. Given the success of season/book one, we’d say it’ll be a success.
The two-part season finale of Legend of Korra airs this Saturday at 11 AM ET/PT on Nick!