Paramount+ Movie Leak Leads to Arrest: What Happened to The Legend of Aang?
Paramount+ Movie Leak Leads to Arrest: What Happened to The Legend of Aang?
Grace ChavesSun, April 26, 2026 at 1:50 AM UTC
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Paramount+’s upcoming film The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender was leaked on X earlier this month. Now, the man behind the account has been arrested and is facing up to seven years in prison.
The user said that a friend from his hacker days sent him a full copy of the movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the user didn’t think it was a big deal to post it.
“I saw it’s just a Paramount+ thing, so I decided I’d troll a little bit,” the user said.
Within hours, the videos had been circulated and viewed thousands of times online. Paramount quickly conducted an investigation into the incident. On April 24, Singapore's The Straits Times said that the leaker had been arrested.
“A 26-year-old man who allegedly leaked the unreleased film The Legend Of Aang: The Last Airbender, the first animated movie in the Avatar franchise, has been arrested for accessing a media server without authorisation,” The Straits Times posted.
The man is currently being investigated for unauthorized access to the computer material, which could carry a maximum jail term of seven years, a fine of up to $50,000, or both, according to The Straits Times.
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Australia's Flying Bark Productions, which animated the film, said in a statement, per Variety, “It was heartbreaking to see footage from ‘The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender’ leak online. This leak did not originate from Flying Bark. Our studio proudly partnered on the production until the very end and we acknowledge the filmmakers, cast, artists and animators who worked tirelessly to produce this incredibly crafted film."
“We worked on the aang movie for years with the expectation that’d we’d get to celebrate all of our hard work in theaters.. just to see people unceremoniously leak the film and pass our shots around on twitter like candy,” Julia Schoel, one of the animators on The Legend of Aang, said on X.
Due to the leak, The Legend of Aang will not be getting a theatrical release. Instead, it will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on October 9. Schoel called this “an awful decision.”
“I totally understand folks not wanting to pay for/support paramount+,” Schoel said. “But pirating the movie after its release would have at least been better than this. This is incredibly disrespectful to all of the hard work the artists put in.”
The Legend of Aang is based on Nickelodeon's series titled Avatar: The Last Airbender.
This story was originally published by Parade on Apr 26, 2026, where it first appeared in the Movies section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
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