Animorphs reimagined for television

[wolfev]

Joseph was going to be Jake's younger brother in the original story.

[SuperBlue]

Joseph was going to be Jake's younger brother in the original story.

Another reason why this should be made into a totally new series instead an attempt at an Animorphs show.

[Chad32]

I think you should either completely or mostly stick to the book storyline, or just make some other show regarding shapeshifting and a alien invasion.

Agreed. The original storyline is just fine but Wolfev's idea here shows alot of creativity and would make a great comic book or TV series.

Now if I produced an Animorph TV series, there would be some changes. It would still go mostly along with the series, and keeping with the main plot.

I'm curious. Like what kind of changes?

Thanks for agreeing with me. I'll PM you about the changes, since that's a bit off topic.

[XenomorphLV426]

Look, if you need to change the series that dramatically for it to work in a TV format, it doesn't work in a TV format.

F'serious, yo.  For an Animorphs series to even be considered viable it needs something (impossible) like a James Cameron/Steven Spielberg collaboration on a $300 mil budget for the bigger movies.  Maybe have K.A. and Michael with some executive producer influence, and a chief producer who respects the material.  And don't let Jim Cameron near the script, limit his power to the lensing and set imagination.  And don't let Spielberg bring his buddy Lucas within a 500 mile radius.

It's all very much intimidating, and basically unfilmable due to the ageing of the kid actors.  TV would solve that, but TV wouldn't have a tenth of th budget required to make people buy the scope of this, or detail the effects-heavy sequences.

Oh, and no screen adaptation, large or small, can ever top the imagination of a kid in the book's target audience.  Better left untarnished.