Author Topic: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!  (Read 25110 times)

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It was her best work, I agree wif dat.

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IF AppleGrant are in charge, I think we're virtually guaranteed a good product. We've seen the damage done to the series when left in hands other than theirs already, and the things that make the books work (the compelling characters, the presentation of deep and important concepts in an organic and simple yet not dumbed-down manner appropriate for younger readers, the constant balance between sheer escapism and GrimDark Angst) need to be retained. I believe that the original team has the best chance of keeping these qualities in tact, but theoretically a sufficiently talented fan who cares about the series while still possessing the objectivity and personal creativity necessary to make the enterprise worthwhile.

While a sequel might be interesting, I don't know how possible it would be to retain the elements that give the series its soul given that most of the characters are dead and the secret is out. The best sequel I can imagine would be a one-off "Human Chronicles" sort of idea.

I do think a straight rewrite of the series by Applegate could be a very good idea. It could serve to remove most of the filler, compensate for the deficiencies of the Ghostwriters (the quality of whom vary! I thought The Deception by Elise Smith was fantastic and worthy of the series, whereas The Return by Kimberly Morriss took an interesting plot and killed it with Cheesy bold-lettered purple prose!) and even clean up the writing in a few of K.A.'s earlier books (there's a clear shift in quality going back from the fantastic last two books to the surprisingly dumbed-down first one). More importantly, it'll keep the series in the minds of a new generation, something that I think will genuinely benefit the readers themselves (even if it does mean we get a bunch of tweens on RAF)

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>_> As long as they don't repeat the story of them getting their morphing power EVERY SINGLE BOOK.

Yeesh. I mean seriously. By book 50, don't you think we would have got it?

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Yes! I almost forgot about that. By the sixth book, I would skip to page 5 and read from there. Hahaha.


Yeah, hopefully, by the time this project gets off the ground and in the writing phases, KA and Grant should have cleared their schedules. :glare: They better.
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Maybe they'd also keep Ax's little "Earth journal" thing for a little longer. It was quite humorous and insightful.
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I would be tempted to put Ax journal quotes in all of his books. I would also give him and Tobias as many books as the others. Making the Alien the sixth book, which would push the Capture to book 7.


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Just a note, in addition to GONE Michael's also currently working on a new series called The Magnificent 12. So it doesn't seem very likely that he'd go to work on this project anytime soon.

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If it's a continuation, I expect Rachel to appear in some way, shape, or form. Seems only right....

omg, she's dead, get over it
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If it's a continuation, I expect Rachel to appear in some way, shape, or form. Seems only right....

omg, she's dead, get over it
Yes, thank you.

Seriously, you guys, stop whining about how she died. In a way, that was almost karma's way of getting back at her being so reckless all the time.
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If it's a continuation, I expect Rachel to appear in some way, shape, or form. Seems only right....

omg, she's dead, get over it

LOL, yes, thank you. +1

The Rachel should be the only thing to ever come back imo.
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Uh, no. If I haven't gotten over Rachel dying by now, I'm just not going to get over it. -1

Especially since there's a perfectly practical in universe way to bring her back, via the time matrix.
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Uh, no. If I haven't gotten over Rachel dying by now, I'm just not going to get over it. -1

Especially since there's a perfectly practical in universe way to bring her back, via the time matrix.

Oy vey.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2-SrRbs7Y[/youtube]

Also, nothing good can come from messing with time.

But back on topic...


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The way I see it a continuation cant work because the target audience of young adults werent around to read the original series and wont know what the heck they are talking about. So it will almost definitely be a revamp.

Also I don't know how much of the rights to Animorphs KA and Michael even own and since they have long since moved on to new projects I think its highly likely they will not be involved in this project. I'm not saying its impossible that they will return, but if I was them I would be happy to collect a royalties check while I focus on my new works as long as I knew they were taking care of the series. (And based on the history of the ghostwriters they feel the same way)

I think of the series more like a comic book series than a book series. Its typical for a comic book creator to work on their project for 50-100 issues, sometimes less, then pass it on to another writer/artist while they go on to create their next new book. And most comic books go through several different volumes with completely different writing teams and sometimes a completely different look.

Personally I'd love to see a new team take a crack at the series. It wont be exactly like our old beloved series but at least it wont be like the ghostwriters trying to copy KA's tone and missing.

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The way I see it a continuation cant work because the target audience of young adults werent around to read the original series and wont know what the heck they are talking about. So it will almost definitely be a revamp.

Also I don't know how much of the rights to Animorphs KA and Michael even own and since they have long since moved on to new projects I think its highly likely they will not be involved in this project. I'm not saying its impossible that they will return, but if I was them I would be happy to collect a royalties check while I focus on my new works as long as I knew they were taking care of the series. (And based on the history of the ghostwriters they feel the same way)

I think of the series more like a comic book series than a book series. Its typical for a comic book creator to work on their project for 50-100 issues, sometimes less, then pass it on to another writer/artist while they go on to create their next new book. And most comic books go through several different volumes with completely different writing teams and sometimes a completely different look.

Personally I'd love to see a new team take a crack at the series. It wont be exactly like our old beloved series but at least it wont be like the ghostwriters trying to copy KA's tone and missing.

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