Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: bittersweet on November 20, 2012, 06:58:05 PM
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Okay I've been a fan of animorphs for awhile. And honestly it affected my life in a huge way. With movies like twilight, avatar and transformers... I begin to wonder.. when is there gonna be am animorphs trilogy on the big screen !? What are they waiting for!? Im almost sure it will be a block buster. So lets be heard. Lets bring animorphs back into the light. Its been slept in for years. Its time to wake people up! Do what you can. Use your voice. I wanna see the animorphs on the big screen. Don't you ?
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Don't be so fast -- there's just as much chance that they could completely ruin it. Especially if M. Knight directs. I mean, look at "The Last Airbender".
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Which is why I've sent countless emails too Michael bay, the producer of transformers . And David Yates. There's so much more to the animorphs. People dismiss it as an "old children's book" . >:(
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They'd have to make it REALLY well for us absolute fanboys and girls to watch it, right? ;)
Because the books conveyed so much more, like the emotions of the characters and the various animal minds. How they are gonna put the mindless machine mind of the ant, for example, on screen, I wonder.
Ah well, you know how it is... with a book-to-movie series, the books always end up being better. :)
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The last Airbender. Still a better movie than Dragonball: Evolution.
Wait a sec. *re-reads posts* MICHAEL BAY?!?! Do you want a smack?!?!
Lets have a look at a potential Animorphs movies by Bay:
- Cassie would be at least a C-Cup with styled hair.
- Rachel would either be a bimbo OR a brunette.
- Jake would be LaBouf
- Marco would be Korean
- Tobias wouldn't be with Rach, since Jake and Rach would NOT be related and thus, an item.
- The Yeerks would be computer chips used by a rogue Andalite Terrorist cell.
NO WAY IS BAY TOUCHING ANIMORPHS!
You want someone who knows how to cater to a fan base? Someone who knows how to depict tragedy, loss and struggle in their characters? Someone whose career is BASED of their characters suffering tragedies?
Three words.
Joss. F*****g. Whedon.
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The reason this will sadly never happen is because the T.V. show was so bad that nobody wants to work with the property...
Now let's play pretend. If they were to announce an Animorph movie right now which actors do you think will play each characters. Even minor characters.
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Charlize Theron for Rachel? ;)
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Theron couldn't even play a full grown woman right in Aeon Flux, let alone a teenager in Animorphs.
I'd go:
Michael Angarano as Jake (Based on Forbidden Kingdom)
Emma Watson as Rachel (Based on punching Malfoy in the face)
Jasika Nicole as Cassie (Based on the Fringe series)
... Tyler Lautner as Marco (fine, he's not half bad as an actor)
Zachary Levi as Ax (Based on Chuck)
Andrew Scott as Visser Three (Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock)
Unfortunately there aren't many teen actors to choose from, so I had to limit my believable actor scope to between 20's and early 30's...
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I could totally see Diana Agron as Rachel.
But Tyler Launter as Marco? I really can't imagine this xD
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- Cassie would be at least a C-Cup with styled hair.
- Rachel would either be a bimbo OR a brunette.
- Jake would be LaBouf
- Marco would be Korean
- Tobias wouldn't be with Rach, since Jake and Rach would NOT be related and thus, an item.
- The Yeerks would be computer chips used by a rogue Andalite Terrorist cell.
Not all bad ideas :XD:
Tyler Launter as Marco? I really can't imagine this
Second. And though I like Watson, definitely not my type of Rachel
I am a firm advocate of let's not bring Animorphs to the big screen.
It wouldn't happen for a dozen reasons beyond the TV show, in all fairness, but even if it did, what would it be?
There's thirty books of filler you can skip, but without redoing the storyline (and I don't want them to do that) you're watering down the most important stuff.
I'd be generous, imagine it as 3 films (Refuse to even hear about just one) speed through the introduction books, maybe make the David triology a second film and then blast through the final arch for a third film, but, I really don't see that as capturing the real heart of the series: Character development.
Animorphs is not a master of plot, but it's magnificent as a character driven story when the right plot elements are used (which is why even the filler isn't totally worthless) and I see no way to do real justice about how they progress by just lumping the biggest plots, which really is what you need for a film.
And that is why I believe if it should ever be on screen it should be small screen with 1-2 episodes a book so you can set the pace right and mix the necessary plots with the character's growth over a long and grueling fight.
But that's just my opinion-feel free to destroy it.
But never use known actors. Maybe certain big names to guest voice for like things Ellimist or Crayak, but not in the regular cast
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That said, the only way Animorphs would work out is as a TV series. And they already messed up that one, now no one will have faith in a resurrection. It's a tragedy, really...
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There is not a single actor in the 13-16 range, or ones that could pass for those ages, who I would welcome as one of the Animorphs. As far as casting the leads goes, they need to take the Harry Potter route and get some talented no-name kids. Disney wont let their precious/innocent child stars do anything gritty like Animorphs so getting actors from them wont work. The only Live action Nick stars with any talent these days are the iCarly cast but I can't see any of them playing Animorphs. As for child movie stars.....do those still exist? All the notable ones are grown up :P
As for a director: Keep Shaymalan and Bay AWAY from this franchise. M. Night will completely miss the point of the series and give us a hollowed version where we're supposed to rely on exposition to tell us everything. And Michael Bay will just tack on unnecessary explosions and fanservice. They both do NOT do adaptions well.
Joss Whedon and David Yates on the other hand have both proven to care about the source material and fans' opinions, especially Whedon (who was a fan of the Marvel Universe, himself) I'd welcome them both with open arms if they decided to do an Ani movie. I like James Cameron too but honestly all I have to go by for him are Titanic and Avatar so can somebody who's seen more of his films tell me whether or not he'd be good for Animorphs?
Which is why I've sent countless emails too Michael bay, the producer of transformers . And David Yates.
Tellin' ya now, that ain't gonna do sh*t. Those two get so much fan emails I highly doubt they read them all, let alone take the fans' ideas into consideration.
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That one is Taylor,not Tyler,but you all made good points.
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Ahem: http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=4788 (http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=4788)
That's all I'll say on this.
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I wish,but it doesn't mean we should get excited ATM,according to the article.
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Hmmm I think a single movie adaption of Animorphs would only work if they took the characters and core ideas from the books and then used them to create a completely new adventure, (without the war being finished) as opposed to trying to squeeze the entirety of the book series and the whole war arc into one film as it is simply just too much. If they wanted to do a trilogy then they could do the war arc.
I think I would much prefer to see an animated series structured like A:TLA. I feel as though the book series lends itself much more to this type of screen adaption than to a movie.
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I so agree with this and have for some time thought about this, Animorphs the complete series Megamorphs and all into movies would be... wait for it.... LEGENDARY!!!!! The series on TV I've only seen a couple because of old cheap equipment, but a few new full length movies with epic CGI and I would be at the theaters to see every one.
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...but I thought everybody wanted to see Elfangor drive Optimus Prime! *Brick'd*
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As awesome as that would be, I'm afraid it would cause everyone's life to be unfullfilling afterwards. Once you see that, there just isn't anything that can top it. It's like watching a fight scene with jackie Chan versus Bruce Lee. Why watch any other martial arts fight after that?
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Ahem: http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=4788 (http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=4788)
That's all I'll say on this.
http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=4960 (http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=4960)
The news just keeps getting better.
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I admit I got hyped up reading it. But thinking realistically to what that link stated, it's as if they re-tested to see if Animorphs brought any sort of relevance inbetween today's crazy-books-trend of Twilight and such. And if it did, it's all the more reason to launch a movie franchise for it. Seeing how the books unfortunately didn't perform well, I guess this movie's a no-go.
I'd like to be proven wrong of course.
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with the crazy success of the Veronica Mars kickstarter campaign, I was wondering if it would be possible for us to do something similar, to show we REALLY want a great movie? just an idea...
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It could work, but don't forget the fact that scholastic doesn't want anyone besides them near the franchise.
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The only format that could really handle the series well would be a Walking Dead style tv show. Give on or two episodes per book, it would run for around 4-5 seasons. The chronicles could be a mini series or a tv movie special. The only issue would be that it would need a HUGE budget to handle all the SFX needed to make morphing, hork bajir, andalites, etc not look terrible.
If it were to be a movie, however, the only person I could think of to direct would be Joss Whedon. I would never trust David Yates with it after what he did with Harry Potter. As a hardcore fan of that series, seeing how he took so much plot out of it and made it all about flirting and bit comedy, and adding unnecessary scenes, I would hate to see what he would do with Animorphs.
I also always liked the idea of a Spielberg helmed "Animorph" that's mentioned in #54 :)
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All I've seen from Whedon is the Avengers. It was my favorite movie of 2012 but it was definitely all action and no real plot. Is that a regular thing for his movies? Because if that's the case then he needs to stay away from Animorphs.
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He did Dr. Horrible, its on Netflix and is one of my favorite movies, which has a great story and action, humor, and music combined.
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IMHO, an Animorphs movie should have, first of all, a huge budget. The special effects are essential, beacuse there are morphing, animals, aliens. fighting, spacecrafts, adventures underwater, in the space, on other planets, and, furthermore, the visual spectacle, if done well, could attract a lot of audience who doesn't know Animorphs.
The main problem of the TV shows was the budget. Poor special effects. Aliens looked like puppets, spacecrafts were improbable, the enviroments were limited (e.g. they could not realize the recovery of Ax underwater but in a container or something similar).
Then, the plot. It's impossible to reduce the whole story in one film, but on the other and it's impossible to represent all the books. It could be a trilogy or a tetralogy. They may not consider, obviously, Helmacrons, Nartec, book 32, 39, 41 and others.
About the cast : I don't know who could play the role of the Animorphs, I don't know teen actors now. The idea of Emma Watson for Rachel is good. I have no idea about the director - maybe Joss Whedon or Steven Spielberg.
Another crucial thing : the screenplay should be very suitable to make the story flowing, as the single books are self-contained. (except for David Trilogy and the last two).
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I doubt we'd ever get somebody like Spieldberg but as long as shaymalan stays FAR away, I'll be satisfied
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I'm so glad this didn't end up happening. Reading those rumors over on Hirac Delest had me a little concerned.
It's just not suited for a big-screen adaptation, even in as far as it's 54 main-story books, and even if you cut out the "filler" ones you're still stuck with about 35-40 stories that all seem pretty essential. You either start mixing and matching, melding books together and lose a lot important stuff, or you do it as some multi-season animated TV thing. Even that's a stretch.
And that's saying nothing of the subject matter. It wouldn't pass through "the system" without being neutered and sanitized. You just can't depict 13 year olds dealing with Vietnam-style guerrilla war effects on their psyche in some PG Summer blockbuster.
When I first heard about that new movie by the Twilight lady with all the Body Snatchers influence, I was grinning pretty broadly. That goes a way to seal the deal for the foreseeable future, if it's successful.
On a side-note, Blue Boy, the simple plot structure of Avengers was by design, Whedon's said as much. He wanted a straight-up cheesy & old fashioned Independence Day style plot to hang the character interactions over, since there was so much to get done in terms of establishing all that, the people, that the plot was just driving that. It's very safe to assume you'll get more what you're looking for in a sequel, he's said it's going to be smaller and really twisting the knife and making it more personal.
That being said, simple as it was, that's so much better than having a giant cluster...uhm, frick, like Dark Knight Rises.
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I agree, I just don't think the series would fit into a single movie...there's just too many plot turns that are essential in understanding what this series is really all about. Action movie directors just don't really make plot and dialogue and character development a priority anymore, so it would just be a failed attempt.
Maybe a TV series remake, but there's just too large a risk of it being a complete disaster too. If they upped the age range of the audience and made the Animorphs 20 year olds they would probably drastically change the plot and add too many unnecessary elements (Rachel having an affair with Marco *shudder*)
I think for now this series is best left alone. ;)
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with the crazy success of the Veronica Mars kickstarter campaign, I was wondering if it would be possible for us to do something similar, to show we REALLY want a great movie? just an idea...
Veronica Mars was already successful enough as a TV series to have a following of people who were willing to pour their own cash into it.
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I agree, I just don't think the series would fit into a single movie...
I don't think anyone's saying they want the whole series to be in a single movie, to be fair to the people who want an Animorphs flick. That'd be ridiculous.
It just seems that there's a window of opportunity for whoever they'd want to cast in the roles. Say they hire 12 year olds for #1 to maximize their time filming sequels before they get too old. There's generally a two-and-a-half to three year gap between blockbuster sequels being released. Even if you did a half dozen or so movies (being ultra optimistic, even that wouldn't happen) Harry Potter style, by the time you get to the final few the kids are approaching 25. Doesn't work.
Unless they were to film concurrently, LotR/Matrix sequels style, which generally doesn't turn out well, and you'd have to do about a decade pre-planning, have all the scripts ready to go, locations scouted, the whole thing cast for all the movies, etc, before even filming the first frame of #1.
If you want to do this "right", there just isn't really a way to get all the content into live-action movies without taking a chainsaw to the plot and cutting like a mofo.
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Actually I (kheetor84/Heather L Haskett) posted this very same question on Twitter with asking about "If Veronica Mars could get funding for a possible movie, what if we got permission for a kickstarter and get something going?" I would love movie but the more practical would be an animated series. Use the animation studio who animated Avatar: TLA and Legend of Korra and make a short mini-series just to see if it catches. Put it on Nickelodeon because Animorphs has history with them *twitch*
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Kheeotr84/553047_10151558542270266_1463556566_n.jpg) - pic courtesy of Hirac Delest. I was STUNNED to see myself on its Facebook feed. XD
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Veronica Mars is a little different. Yeah, it has a cult following, but the movie's going to be cheap to make, probably 15-20 mil max, and overall the fan base is probably larger in the scheme of things. It's just less work, and less risk, to satisfy more people.
Animorphs is kind of the opposite. Big financial undertaking, big unknown element on whether doing it faithfully passes the angry-at-the-media-soccer-mom test, and let's face it, if we look at the big picture we're not a giant population of rabid fans. We're just the leftover 20-somethings nostalgic for something from the 90s. Not a big incentive, if you're some studio exec or practical filmmaker.
Why do it when there are so many other more-doable, more ultra-modern and appealing to kids in 2013 properties out there? Less risk and more return on the investment.
And again, if this The Host movie coming out is a tenth as successful as Twilight, that's another kick in the crotch for it. It's based off the exact same source/inspiration, and while there are obvious differences it's the same basic concept. If you get a franchise happening with that, Animorphs won't happen anytime soon.
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I agree, I just don't think the series would fit into a single movie
That's what sequels are for :P
I personally don't mind how many things they change or how many books they fuse together. As long as the overall concept is the same and the execution is done well, I wont have a problem with an Ani movie. Think of it like superhero movies. Do those follow the comics to a T? Dear God, no! Are most of them EXTREMELY successful anyway? Hell yeah!
The only time I didn't get bored with movies that followed the books ALMOST exactly, were the Harry Potter movies (well after the first two movies they kinda did their own thing) and Hunger Games. Any other time the movie becomes dull because you already know what's gonna happen. If an Animorphs movie is made, I DO hope that the director takes some liberties and changes some stuff up just to keep us fans wandering what'll happen.
However, there are some people who are NEVER allowed to take liberties with something based on somebody else's work. I'm looking at you, M Night Shaymalan! It's one thing to stray from the source material but when your "creative" decisions end up making the series WORSE, then you need to just go ahead and follow the story how it was originally written.
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I agree, I just don't think the series would fit into a single movie
That's what sequels are for :P
If they made a whole bunch of sequels, it still wouldn't fit. After all that splicing and plot changing, it still wouldn't work. Say, we condense ten books for each movie giving us a total of about 5-6 movies. Here's what the first one would look like (books 1-10):
Animorphs: The Beginning
5 kids walking home from the mall cut through an abandoned construction site only to find a dying alien who gives them images of the Yeerks and the doom of mankind. Meanwhile Visser 3 shows up, gobbles up Elfangor, the kids then run for their lives. (half an hour to portray this and for character introduction before they all hang out at the mall)
The next day after discovering they can all morph and during the aftershock of this discovery, Jake is concerned about Tom and then Rachel's friend Melissa reveals doubts about her father, leading the Animorphs to doubt and follow Chapman, then find the location of the entrance to the Yeerk Pool, which after getting battle morphs from The Gardens, they try to infiltrate, revealing the horrors within, and Tobias gets permanently trapped in hawk morph. On the other hand they do manage to rescue Ax, who was being held prisoner in the Yeerk Pool (undersea exploration wouldn't fit and would require too much effort). They also discover that Marco's mom is actually Visser 1.
After the failed attempt and barely escaping alive, the Ellimist wants them to reenter the Yeerk Pool to save 2 Hork-Bajir to give Tobias an opportunity to regain his morphing power? Oh yeah, and they get help from Erek the Chee. All while: Jake wants to save his brother, Marco's dad is in depression and Marco is torn that his mom is on the dark side, Cassie is having moral doubts about all this and has slight feelings for Jake, Rachel's parents are divorced and she is using the battles with the Yeerks to release her anger, Tobias is freaking out that he's trapped as a hawk, oh yeah and Ax explodes on Cinnabons.
You get the point.
That's gonna be one crappy 4 hour long movie. All while excluding a whole bunch of awesome plotlines from the books. I'd like to see some other attempts at this too.
The superhero movies are great because there's only one character who they have to develop, whereas the Animorphs are 6. Each character has his/her own story and even with a condensed/changed plot, it's going to be hard to fit into a movie because there's just too much stuff going on.
It would only work if they made a TV series like Heroes, and if the series were to be successful, they could conclude it with an action packed movie. I'd love to see the Animorphs on big screen as much as anyone but it's just not happening.
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I dunno. I just feel like since all of the major "plot points" in the series are so spaced out and kind of unrelated, when you start picking and choosing from various books and trying to weave it all into one cohesive story, that's not going to work, ever.
Having all the various sub-adventures as broken up into all the various books really goes a long way to add that sense of this being a prolonged conflict over a couple of years, too, instead of just having 3, 4, 5 or 6 movies picking up with all the major showdowns and just alluding to the other stuff indirectly.
The only way to even make the series work while covering a majority of the necessary stuff would probably be some multi-medium ambitious experiment, like having a movie for each of the characters for all of the "major plot-driving stuff", and an animated series filling in all the between stuff, which you'd have to assume people have seen before the next movie. It just becomes one big mess that average-non-Animorphs-dweeb-McGee isn't going to want to bother with. Only the hard-core fans. And that's not reason enough to do it.
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As others have said, a TV show with various episodes would be better suited to the structure of the books, which are relatvely short and self-contaied, with events clearly separated from each other and narrated in turn by six different characters, that every time give precedence to theri specific features and their personal thoughts.
Anyway, a movie is possible but it would be strongly adaptated. For example, there wouldn't be a single protagonist. And a lot of stuff should be omitted, starting from many endings - happy or not.
It's not easy. For example, the first book : it could be alone a movie. It has all : the beginnig, the introduction of main characters (Animorphs, Visser III, Tom, Chapman, etc.) the discovery of the aliens and of the invasion, the first morphs, the first battle, the escape, and the sad final with Tobias trapped. So, it should be modified to make a continuous adventur with the later books.
It could be a tetralogy, perhpas in this way :
#1 Movie : the events of books 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-12
#2 Movie : the events of books 13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20
#3 Movie : the events of books 21-22-23-25-26-27-29-30-31-33-34-38
#4 Movie : the events of books 40-43-45-46-47-49-50-51-52-53-54
Or something like this. The problems of the kids actors who grow up could be solved making all the movies at the same time (as in The Lord of The Rings). Notwithstading that a huge budget is vital. Then, if the film is succesfull, could be made a series of spin-off based on the Chronicles or Megamorphs. But it's a very ambitious project and maybe it's too risky.
Another possibility is to realize a single film with a running time of 3h and 30' with a fast beginning, many battles and special effects and a spectacular conclusion with the final victory. But it would be very difficult to make and it might upset the spirit of the series.
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That's what I've always thought, book #1 is basically page-for-page perfect as it is, for a movie. The problems start from there. You could do #1 fairly easy, in that very classic 80s-Spielberg vibe.
From there though, as soon as you make it, you have a window of about 3 years. For the rest of the series. Kids age, and quickly, and you don't want to have some college-age kids still trying to pass themselves off as 15 or whatever.
A studio wouldn't greenlight something like Animorphs to shoot a significant amount of movies simultaneously, with no guarantee it'll even make money.
As for the suggestion of cramming the events of that many books into singular movies... Why? That's just not going to work well.
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An animated TV show would be best for this kind of series. But a movie is still doable IMO. It may not follow the books exactly and cut out/change plot points that we think are important but probably aren't, but that doesn't mean it'll be crap.
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As for the suggestion of cramming the events of that many books into singular movies... Why? That's just not going to work well.
I agree, but I'm more curious as to the choice of books for said plots Alan.
Ex. Why leave out 11, but keep 12. Or 9. Or 34. I'm not pushing for the story in 11 to be included in this type of...megafilm, but it's certainly no more inconsequential than 12 was. Is there any reasoning to the ones you did pick?
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Imagine how much back-to-back shooting they'd have to do to make sure the actors stay within the 13-16 age range like in the books. And people thought Harry Potter would be tough :P
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Blue Boy, the structural stuff is kind of the secondary point of why it won't happen, or at least won't be happen and be faithful to the books.
The major one is just tone. I mean, while the really intense stuff was sometimes just implied rather than described in the books, I'm still amazed Scholastic let some of that stuff be published in their YA line.
A lot of it's certainly not going to fly in PG-13 endorsement-tie-ins Summer-movie-land.
Like, think about how dark Harry Potter got toward the end. Still fairly tame compared to some of the Animorphs stuff, no? Trapping David as a rat and leaving him to die, Jake the is-he-or-isn't-he-a-war-criminal stuff, should Marco have to make the call about killing his mother or shouldn't he, and just in general the *nature* of the action scenes. Animals fighting in close quarters basically means blood. So you're either cutting away with editing every time a fight goes down, or you're sanitizing it significantly to sell a Happy Meal or two. There's not really a middle-ground.
You can show Batman punching guys around like ragdolls and still be safely in PG range, no matter how dark the movie themes may get. If you're dealing in tigers and bears and Hork-Bajir, though? Making any of that fall in the suspension-of-disbelief realm, you're at least needing to depict that in a somewhat grounded non-cartoon way.
People'll biatch about it, and more importantly, it won't make it to the stage where they can do that anyway, as the MPAA will put a stop to that real fast, unless the studio's comfortable bumping it up to an R and not making any money. That won't happen either.
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As for the suggestion of cramming the events of that many books into singular movies... Why? That's just not going to work well.
I agree, but I'm more curious as to the choice of books for said plots Alan.
Ex. Why leave out 11, but keep 12. Or 9. Or 34. I'm not pushing for the story in 11 to be included in this type of...megafilm, but it's certainly no more inconsequential than 12 was. Is there any reasoning to the ones you did pick?
Simply those are the books that I consider to be the most useless. But this is questionable. Maybe other books could be excluded, but those are the first that came to my mind. But, I mean, Helmacrons are not necessary, even for books :)
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As others have said, a TV show with various episodes would be better suited to the structure of the books, which are relatvely short and self-contaied, with events clearly separated from each other and narrated in turn by six different characters, that every time give precedence to theri specific features and their personal thoughts.
Anyway, a movie is possible but it would be strongly adaptated. For example, there wouldn't be a single protagonist. And a lot of stuff should be omitted, starting from many endings - happy or not.
It's not easy. For example, the first book : it could be alone a movie. It has all : the beginnig, the introduction of main characters (Animorphs, Visser III, Tom, Chapman, etc.) the discovery of the aliens and of the invasion, the first morphs, the first battle, the escape, and the sad final with Tobias trapped. So, it should be modified to make a continuous adventur with the later books.
It could be a tetralogy, perhpas in this way :
#1 Movie : the events of books 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-12
#2 Movie : the events of books 13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20
#3 Movie : the events of books 21-22-23-25-26-27-29-30-31-33-34-38
#4 Movie : the events of books 40-43-45-46-47-49-50-51-52-53-54
Or something like this. The problems of the kids actors who grow up could be solved making all the movies at the same time (as in The Lord of The Rings). Notwithstading that a huge budget is vital. Then, if the film is succesfull, could be made a series of spin-off based on the Chronicles or Megamorphs. But it's a very ambitious project and maybe it's too risky.
Another possibility is to realize a single film with a running time of 3h and 30' with a fast beginning, many battles and special effects and a spectacular conclusion with the final victory. But it would be very difficult to make and it might upset the spirit of the series.
If they were to make the movies I could see a trilogy set over a 3 year period in which the invasion begins and is eventually defeated. They'd make sure and hit the "highlights" of the war and focus on a handful of important plot points in the series, but many many story threads would have to be ignored entirely.
I think an earlier poster hit the nail on the head though: all that's left is those of us in our 20's who miss one of our favorite childhood series, along with a handful of younger kids who may have gotten interested in the series upon re-release. This movie would take a ton of money to make properly and it just doesn't have the fanbase behind it to give any notion of an Animorphs movie legs.
And I accept that.
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Yeah. As cool as it'd be in an ideal world, it's not an ideal world, and I'm much much happier having no Animorphs flick than some compromise that would only bug most of us a lot.
Be happy with the books, everyone, find some peace, hakuna matata and all that jazz.
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I think we should all just try and make one of our own... No one else could make us fans happier. :D
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Got 200 million and a solution to the 54-books-factor? :P
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This would be so bad ass if it had a good director, lots of money to work with and was 3 or 4 films. Something like Lord of the Rings trilogy. It would never happen but nice to dream :P
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I think we should all just try and make one of our own... No one else could make us fans happier. :D
I wish! Haha I just tried to do some maths and I thought I would share it with you all because I have no life.
If we wanted to do a fan made animated movie with a running time of 118 mins with each 3 seconds of film being made up of 94 different images (in order to make it move etc, and that's without background) we would have to do a grand total of 221, 840 images (if my maths is correct). Wutttttt.
I think an animated series would suit the franchise more than a movie and unless someone like Whedon got his hands on it I would rather see it not made.
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Personally, I think we're fine as long as Michael Bay and Jonathan Liebesman stay far away from it. They'd probably get rid of Elfangor altogether, turn the Animorphs into genetically-engineered military supersoldiers, turn Visser Three into a foreign terrorist, etc.
Oh God, I hope I haven't given them any ideas.