Lets change the movie plot

[wolfev]

These are some ideas I was thinking about for how an animorphs movie could be done. Some are meant to be funny, some serious.

1. The entire movie is shot J.J. Abrams Cloverfield style on a video camera

2. The entire movie is animated in a semi anime fashion

3. The movie is done is a trilogy format that varies from the books to keep things interesting. The first movie would follow book 1 pretty closely. The second movie would have David appear as a main villian. In the end as a twist Rachel traps herself in Hawk morph to be with Tobias. The third movie would hopefully occur and they would win the war...maybe.

Just some ideas I wanted to through into the old forum to be ripped apart and what not. Hey that is why we are here. So go along and discuss.

[zaprowsdower]

Don't take this too harshly(you can't, in fact, 'cause I'm boosting your karma!)but

1. You're kidding on this one, right?
2.Please no.
3. Trilogy=yes, Rachel nothlit=NO.

[wolfev]

Yea, the last one was the most serious one. My thinking with Rachel going nothlit was that it was something new you could do with the series because just copying and pasting makes problems occur. I'm not saying pull the same crap the TV show did with the plot. What I'm saying is that sometimes perfect adaptation suck because they can never be perfect. If there was a trilogy I swear I would have David be an even bigger psychopath than he was. I would go all out violent. The other reason for the Rachel nothlit thing is that she would it would contrast David being trapped as a rat. The final reason for that is because much like The Dark Knight and Spiderman II the movie would be so good that there would be no where to go but down so to make it super dramatic I would end with Rachel doing that to be with Tobias. I want a tear jerker ending. The question arises though if you leave certain things in. Do we find out Elfangor is Tobias' father, or is that too starwars. Does he regain his morphing powers, or is his character arc decreased so that he doesn't. How do you fit Ax in the group? Was he riding in Elfangor's ship and somehow escaped?

[Kitulean]

This is why I don't think Animorphs will ever work as anything other than an animated (maybe computer generated) full length television series, with each 42 minute episode taking up half a book. That's over 100 episodes which is plenty for syndication I believe. They don't need to change a lot of things, they just need to have the time needed to tell the entire story.

[Gafrash]

I agree with Cerulean above: '...they just need to have the time needed to tell the entire story'.

As exciting as a movie sounds, the way movies are being done now days, they tend to c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e-l-y miss the mark by focusing on specialFX, romance and self-contained happy endings. Trilogies and revamps don't fare much better on the big screen.

The Transformers movie is an example that fits the topic in question. They did awesome graphics and bumped up the impact of scary side of things, (I recall walking down the street and looking at parked cars in a whole different way). In that aspect, the movie was good. But the plot and the actors really made it a boy's crush-thing movie, and therefore totally lame for my digestion.
Nevertheless, I can't remember where, but I believe they are already making a sequel to the movie...

I would not be keen on seeing the spiffy way Hollywood would do Jake morphing a tiger, I can already imagine that. And I would certainly not settle for them doing a Jake+Cassie kiss at the end of something that should be waaaaaaaaaaay down the track. It would be a -ive for me.
And I can just see it, they would try to fit David in the movie package, too. NGHAAAAAAAAAARGH!

To me, the story of the Animorphs cannot be done justice in a 2 hr movie.
I would be more keen on a re-doing of the series. Done properly by some ani-fanatic and with a proper budget.

[wolfev]

Well, that is why I said a movie adaptation. Like what was it, Fight Club and Blade Runner are significantly different from the books but considered to be good movies. What I'm saying is that the way the series is now would cause a lot of problems when it comes to making a film series. So I propose doing it different because there is no way a movie could be true to the story and work. Same thing with A Naked Lunch, good movie, but not the book. So that is why I say change the plot for the movie. Then someone would pull a stargate move and turn it into a series. It would work with the proper budget, and people who know that it has a a proper ending and once its past that point, the series is over. If there only out to make money then they might just make it go on forever even though it would be past the point where the series has ended. A good method to do this would be to have about 3 or 4 seasons with time skip intervals. That way you can have books that are hard to fit in happening between seasons.

[adamjared]

Hey guys. Animorphs was actually confirmed as probably being a movie by Katherine Applegate herself. it was in the Classic forum's question and answer topic.

RAF: Do you think that Animorphs will ever make it to the big screen?
K&M: There is a reasonably serious move under way to do a big budget Animorphs movie. By that we mean that a producer has contacted us and let us know that he would be pitching the idea to the studios -- as soon as the WGA strike is over. The producers are serious guys. The studios they are going after are people who could actually pull it off. But right now it's still probably a 20 to 1 shot. Keep your fingers crossed. I'll say this: the producer is a serious Anifan.

[wolfev]

can we get some word on this when she comes around the mountain so to speak.

[Gafrash]

OH MY GEE!!!! This sounds good, TheEllimist!!!

Hey guys. Animorphs was actually confirmed as probably being a movie by Katherine Applegate herself. it was in the Classic forum's question and answer topic.

RAF: Do you think that Animorphs will ever make it to the big screen?
K&M: There is a reasonably serious move under way to do a big budget Animorphs movie. By that we mean that a producer has contacted us and let us know that he would be pitching the idea to the studios -- as soon as the WGA strike is over. The producers are serious guys. The studios they are going after are people who could actually pull it off. But right now it's still probably a 20 to 1 shot. Keep your fingers crossed. I'll say this: the producer is a serious Anifan.

ESPECIALLY the part about the producer being a serious Anifan! It's reason to get our hopes up, I reckon!!! Yiiiiiiiipeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

How long ago was this? And do you think it's gonna happen for real?!

[Nateosaurus]

It's been a while, man.

We all got very excited, but the excitement died down when we didn't hear another word about it.

[esplin]

yea there probably isnt going to be an animorphs movie, and if there is i want them to stick with the books as much as possible.

I wouldnt mind if they played up the dark side of animorphs though

[zaprowsdower]

The fact that we haven't heard anything for a few months doesn't really mean anything. Do you know how long it took to make the Hitchhiker's movie? Years! They had to go through so many different tries and rewrites to get the greenlight-Douglas Adams even moved to California so he didn't have to commute so far.But, the movie was still made, and it was a darn good movie too!

[esplin]

yeah the time factor doesn't really mean much, i just dont think theres enough of a fanbase for it.

[zaprowsdower]

Isn't that putting your cart before your horse? You don't get a fanbase until you make the movie. Plus, so many film critics have proclaimed the Death of Movie Stardom, that you don't need big names and big budgets to get a great film, just a good story, director and actors.

Animorphs already has the story.

[esplin]

i guess youre right but you gotta think about how even with a small budget film someone is investing money into it and that person/people are gonna want something out of it