Richard's Animorphs Forum

Eh, I never held anything against the TV show, it was what it was.  Cheap cash-in, they did it all the time with everything back in the day.  The show never had any expectation of being quality (and even then, I kinda felt they at least got the paranoia vibe more or less right, for some G-rated Nick thing).

This is a movie, supposedly with some substantial producers and money behind it.  If it bites, they don't have the same slack to cut them as the show did.  This *could* be good theoretically, if they wanted to actually include Katherine & Michael and hire a director willing to "go there".  The show was just like...Scholastic going "hey, this is hot property among the kiddies, let's milk another million or so out of it, license it to Nickelodeon or something!".

I get Katherine & Michael feeling p*ssed about the show back in the day too, sure.  But the movie's gotta feel like more of a kick in the guts, considering there could have actually been something here.

Yeahhhh.  My prior cynicism pretty much panned out, huh?

A shame he seems so bitter about it though (not that it's not totally justified, of course it is, just...would be nicer for them if they were a little more ambivalent with the time passed and all).

The *real* sh*tty thing is, I'm still gonna watch it.     Not in theaters or whatever, but due it it being f*cking Animorphs I'm still checking it out sometime while bored on Netflix or whatever, down the line.  The people making these crappy decisions pretty much get rewarded for it, anyone who was going to see an Animorphs movie is still going to end up seeing it.

100% convinced by now it's going to...well, not even necessarily *suck* (Michael said he does like some of the writer's work), but it's sure as hell not going to be faithful.  Just feel bad for Katherine & Michael, basically, at this point beyond curiosity I don't much care how the flick actually turns out.  Expected nothing, so when you get nothing it's not some punch to the gut.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Animorphs/comments/m5k76k/the_full_reason_why_michael_grant_and_ka/

Did not do it any justice ... but it's typical of the Hollywood of things.

Honestly I'm kind of mock-dreading the first news.     Seems the project's like 99% a go at this point, as good as greenlit, so I guess chances are 6 months from now we could be getting cast & crew announcements public.

But after Michael's social posts, yeah...

Not.  Expecting.  Much.  Whatever "wait and see" attitude's kinda evaporated, if Michael had felt the need to allude to the Percy Jackson author dude's take on his experience with those movies.  Situation seems grim.

Sucks, too, 'cause in a perfect world with them approaching this with some grit & grime and 90s-feel (movie style as well as period setting) along with commitment to sticking true to Katherine/Michael's writing, an Animorphs flick I feel could really be something special.  Like even in an objective sense outside of being a fan, just seems like this world done right could really hit home with the public & critics alike.  But yeah, kinda just overall surprised how little I seem interested in this beyond some curiosity, like I owe it to the books and childhood memories to check it out, but not much more.

Ah, who are we kidding?     The movie's gonna blow.