Pulled from Donna’s link

Editing the Series

“Now, here’s where the fun begins. I would take the animated series itself into my editing software and cut each book down to a feature length film that contains all of the important character arcs. This would probably take multiple cuts to get it down to the proper length. Each book is roughly 7 and a half hours long, with the last being about 8. I’d give myself an extended edition cut to work with, that gives me a Lord of the Rings length of three hours per film.
By this time, I’d know what I did very clearly, and would ask some friends to watch my feature length edits of the series, to see if it works for them. It would be best if they had never seen the series.
I would then work on refining that animated cut to make sure the film has everything that it needs. It is also possible that new scenes will be needed to fill out some of the story in a way that was different than the animated version could convey. Now you’ve got a working pre-viz storyboard that you can show to the studio to give them a good idea of what you’re going to be shooting for in live action.”

-I would love to see a Superfan like one of us with great editing skills do this with Sony Vegas or another good piece of software, would be amazing if done right!!

@tenzin I’m thinking that even if MNS doesn’t complete the movies that in another 4-5 years time someone else will give it a crack as the ATLA story is such a great epic and can I feel really make a great film, it’s just got to be given the right energy and story like the writer of that article shares, and do feel that it will happen.

I still stand by loving this version of ATL too as again it was in MNS’s view/take – he committed big time and so did all the cast and crew and you can really see that in the behind the scenes and putting aside the not so great script also in the movie. MNS did achieve the huge EPIC scenery/scenes and the Air Temples were stunning too….

Though I’d still think it would also be great to see how another director would take it and what evolves from it….