'Animorphs' TV Series in Development at Disney+ (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Disney+ is developing a new “Animorphs” TV series, with Bayan Wolcott attached as writer and executive producer, and Ryan Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Zinzi Coogler as executive producers through Proximity Media.
- The adaptation is based on the popular book series by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant, which follows teenagers who gain the ability to morph into animals to fight a parasitic alien invasion.
- The original “Animorphs” book series includes 54 main books and several companion novels, selling over 35 million copies worldwide since its debut in 1996.
- Proximity Media is working on the project under a TV overall deal with Disney, with Coogler currently developing other projects including a reboot of “The X-Files.”
- This will be the second “Animorphs” TV adaptation, following a live-action Nickelodeon series that aired from 1998 to 2000; a planned film adaptation in 2020 did not come to fruition.
