Ryan Coogler Plans To Bring 'Animorphs' Back To Life On Disney+

TV & Film

Apr 6

Sometimes a series’ release is too soon and is unable to receive the recognition and fandom it deserves. One such series, Animorphs, a children’s book series about a group of teenagers with the ability to transform into any animal they touch after meeting a dying alien from the Andalite race, will have author Katherine Applegate seeing it on television screens again. Back in 1998, Animorphs aired on Nickelodeon for two seasons. Twenty years later, Disney+ decided to take the torch and adapt Animorphs into a live-action series with Oscar-winning director Ryan Coogler of Sinners behind the camera. According to Entertainment Weekly the reboot’s tagline reads, “Animorphs follows a group of teenagers who uncover a hidden threat lurking beneath their everyday lives, all while juggling relationships, curfews, and the chaos of high school.” Combining the supernatural with the human world; something Coogler has plenty of experience with.

On top of having an Oscar-winning director at the helm, the “beloved book series” reboot has The Testaments and The Summer I Turned Pretty scribe Bayan Wolcott attached to write and executive produce the series. Additionally, Proximity Media's Simone Harris, vice president and head of TV, and Dezi Gallegos, director of TV development, will also oversee the project with the series’ original creator and author. Little about the project is known, but given The X-Files' Gillian Anderson eagerness to return as Scully in Coogler’s reboot of the series, he is also a part of, an “open mind” will be more of a chance for the Animorphs series to have the fans they deserve.

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