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Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« on: January 23, 2011, 09:58:03 PM »
     Now, I was just curious.

     I tried to imagine a world where there was a decent Animorphs television show on the air. How would anyone start the first episode?

     I'm not liking the intro of the first series. There's something off putting about Jake telling the planet's secrets to a video camera. It's also cheesy, but I have more of a problem with the whole narration. You shouldn't have to TELL your audience, "Hey, this is what's going on. This is what you're going to be watching". You have to SHOW the audience. Besides, it was extremely redundant. In Parts One and Two of "My name is Jake", Jake introduces himself to the audience like four times.

     So, how would YOU start episode one?
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2011, 05:25:29 AM »
I would start it with Marco and Jake in the mall playing an arcade game.

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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2011, 08:15:03 AM »
First off: Writers.

Joss Whedon, myself and two other people from this board. (Sorry guys, too many writers spoil the show, trust me.)

Budget: At least a one hundred thousand dollars per episode for the first season. We're hiring unknowns to play the kids again and they're each being made to write an essay about their characters after the first table read. Elfangor, Visser Three, Chapman and Tom will be played and/or voiced by any number of recognizable actors from Canada. Come on, we have a large talent pool to pick from, why do we limit ourselves to these half-baked community college drama club rejects?

With this formula we should be able to slap a fairly decent first season together.

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Re: Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2011, 12:32:56 PM »
Yay, this'll be the show where we get to have the power to change to save the people who've been yeerked!

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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2011, 12:42:17 PM »
     I for one think YEERKED is a brilliant verb.
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2011, 01:27:12 PM »
First off: Writers.

Joss Whedon, myself and two other people from this board. (Sorry guys, too many writers spoil the show, trust me.)

Budget: At least a one hundred thousand dollars per episode for the first season. We're hiring unknowns to play the kids again and they're each being made to write an essay about their characters after the first table read. Elfangor, Visser Three, Chapman and Tom will be played and/or voiced by any number of recognizable actors from Canada. Come on, we have a large talent pool to pick from, why do we limit ourselves to these half-baked community college drama club rejects?

With this formula we should be able to slap a fairly decent first season together.

Oh, and if anyone mentions the word "yeerked", or refers to morphing as "the change" or "changing", they will be froced to work the rotating desert tray while a masked guard whips them with a barbed wire.
That all sounds great, as long as we get good voice actors, especially for Visser Three. Personally I think the guy that did the voice of General Sarris (Galaxy Quest) would be great.

I think a good way to start it out would be Jake and Marco playing the arcade game, but if you could do it so that it looked like it was going to be a D&D fantasy show, then when they are killed by the Sleaze Troll it zooms out to show them in an arcade, out of quarters.

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Re: Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2011, 01:45:56 PM »
I think a godd way to start it out would be Jake and Marco playing the arcade game, but if you could do it so that it looked like it was going to be a D&D fantasy show, then when they die it zooms out to show them in an arcade, out of quarters.
It's a good idea. If not a heroic fantasy game, an SF game would be cool too, with spaceships for example.
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2011, 04:40:45 PM »
OMG the name of this topic was so misleading lol. I didn't eve notice the question mark, all I read was "Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works" and thought "...don't f*ck with me! this better not be another rumor"

Anyway....

They need a "Heroes" or "Smallville" type budget for Animorphs. And some unknown actors that are actually the same age as the Anis were supposed to be! Not 20 year olds playing High Schoolers like in the first show. I love shows where the character age over the course of the series(mostly just in long running sitcoms) so if we get 13 year olds to play them in the beginning, we can garuntee they'll at least be 16 in the end.

I actually wouldn't mind bringing the Nickelodeon Visser 3 back, he was one part of the show I actually liked and his voice was amazing. Elfangor...they can bring whoever they want to voice him seeing as he'll only have like 10 minutes of screentime at the most before getting eaten. And the Drode MUST be voiced by Mark Hamil lol ....actually, I've heard him play a serious villain before so he could be Crayak too
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Re: Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2011, 05:47:46 PM »
1: I agree that Visser Three and Ax were better efforts than the Elfangor puppet. To quote a former FF.net author, he looked like a furby on crack. Elfangor is basically the guy that kicked the whole story off so the same budget needs to go into him that went in to Alloran's body.

Oh, and this is where writing comes in. Treat viewers of the series like they haven't read the books and actually include some foreshadowing. See The Vampire Diaries if you need inspiration.


All right, these are my suggestions for the adult actors. The key players for the first few eps that is.

Elfangor: Bruce Greenwood. Played Captain Pike in Star Trek ('09) and does a range of roles. This is a huge part and I think having an actor that's tied to the Star Trek universe would be a wink to the fans who read the series. Since we know Tobias is a Star Trek fan, people will appreciate the idea that his "dad" played an iconic Star Trek character. And for an additional bonus, Bruce is Canadian, which will please the heck out of the Canadian fans of Animorphs as well as the filming guilds, who usually demand that a Canadian actor appear in the series at least once. But we know with some careful writing and editing that "Elfangor" could make a few apperances that we didn't see in the books.

Visser Three (Voice): Karl Urban. Continuing the Star Trek connection, he was Bones in the same film. Again, a guy who takes a range of roles and is talented enough with his voice to pull of the sinister and blood thirsty thought speak voice.

Principal Chapman: Robert Pralgo. He did one season of the Vampire Diaries (as far as I know and I haven't seen season two yet, so don't spoil it for me) and I think he'd be perfect for the part of Chapman.

Tom Berenson: Paul Wesley. Again, dipping into the Vampire Diaries bag here as we know that fans of the vampire trend will be watching the newer Animorphs. So you want to try to bring as many members of that audience over to this as well. Paul Wesley is young looking enough to pull of Tom for a couple years.

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Re: Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2011, 06:00:57 PM »
1: I agree that Visser Three and Ax were better efforts than the Elfangor puppet. To quote a former FF.net author, he looked like a furby on crack. Elfangor is basically the guy that kicked the whole story off so the same budget needs to go into him that went in to Alloran's body.

Oh, and this is where writing comes in. Treat viewers of the series like they haven't read the books and actually include some foreshadowing. See The Vampire Diaries if you need inspiration.


All right, these are my suggestions for the adult actors. The key players for the first few eps that is.

Elfangor: Bruce Greenwood. Played Captain Pike in Star Trek ('09) and does a range of roles. This is a huge part and I think having an actor that's tied to the Star Trek universe would be a wink to the fans who read the series. Since we know Tobias is a Star Trek fan, people will appreciate the idea that his "dad" played an iconic Star Trek character. And for an additional bonus, Bruce is Canadian, which will please the heck out of the Canadian fans of Animorphs as well as the filming guilds, who usually demand that a Canadian actor appear in the series at least once. But we know with some careful writing and editing that "Elfangor" could make a few apperances that we didn't see in the books.

Visser Three (Voice): Karl Urban. Continuing the Star Trek connection, he was Bones in the same film. Again, a guy who takes a range of roles and is talented enough with his voice to pull of the sinister and blood thirsty thought speak voice.

Principal Chapman: Robert Pralgo. He did one season of the Vampire Diaries (as far as I know and I haven't seen season two yet, so don't spoil it for me) and I think he'd be perfect for the part of Chapman.

Tom Berenson: Paul Wesley. Again, dipping into the Vampire Diaries bag here as we know that fans of the vampire trend will be watching the newer Animorphs. So you want to try to bring as many members of that audience over to this as well. Paul Wesley is young looking enough to pull of Tom for a couple years.

Continuing the theme:

Jake Berenson: Sam Worthington. Someone here has already mentioned this, but Avatar mercilessly ripped Animorphs off. We need to make this known, and what better way to do that than by having the guy who played That Other Jake as the REAL Jake?

Rachel (Marie) Berenson: Brooke Nevin. They got Rachel right the first time around, and this is the ONLY thing they got right with the casting.

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Re: Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2011, 07:05:58 PM »
OMG the name of this topic was so misleading lol. I didn't eve notice the question mark, all I read was "Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works" and thought "...don't f*ck with me! this better not be another rumor"

     Who said it was a rumour? I'm sure someone creative is working on it, wink-wink.
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« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2011, 08:37:40 PM »
1: I agree that Visser Three and Ax were better efforts than the Elfangor puppet. To quote a former FF.net author, he looked like a furby on crack. Elfangor is basically the guy that kicked the whole story off so the same budget needs to go into him that went in to Alloran's body.

Oh, and this is where writing comes in. Treat viewers of the series like they haven't read the books and actually include some foreshadowing. See The Vampire Diaries if you need inspiration.


All right, these are my suggestions for the adult actors. The key players for the first few eps that is.

Elfangor: Bruce Greenwood. Played Captain Pike in Star Trek ('09) and does a range of roles. This is a huge part and I think having an actor that's tied to the Star Trek universe would be a wink to the fans who read the series. Since we know Tobias is a Star Trek fan, people will appreciate the idea that his "dad" played an iconic Star Trek character. And for an additional bonus, Bruce is Canadian, which will please the heck out of the Canadian fans of Animorphs as well as the filming guilds, who usually demand that a Canadian actor appear in the series at least once. But we know with some careful writing and editing that "Elfangor" could make a few apperances that we didn't see in the books.

Visser Three (Voice): Karl Urban. Continuing the Star Trek connection, he was Bones in the same film. Again, a guy who takes a range of roles and is talented enough with his voice to pull of the sinister and blood thirsty thought speak voice.

Principal Chapman: Robert Pralgo. He did one season of the Vampire Diaries (as far as I know and I haven't seen season two yet, so don't spoil it for me) and I think he'd be perfect for the part of Chapman.

Tom Berenson: Paul Wesley. Again, dipping into the Vampire Diaries bag here as we know that fans of the vampire trend will be watching the newer Animorphs. So you want to try to bring as many members of that audience over to this as well. Paul Wesley is young looking enough to pull of Tom for a couple years.

Continuing the theme:

Jake Berenson: Sam Worthington. Someone here has already mentioned this, but Avatar mercilessly ripped Animorphs off. We need to make this known, and what better way to do that than by having the guy who played That Other Jake as the REAL Jake?

Rachel (Marie) Berenson: Brooke Nevin. They got Rachel right the first time around, and this is the ONLY thing they got right with the casting.

So we're going with adult actors for the Anis again?
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Re: Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2011, 08:38:41 PM »
So we're going with adult actors for the Anis again?

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Re: Animorphs Television Screen Play In the Works?
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2011, 08:52:05 PM »
     I'm pretty sure I'll kick myself in the ass for this later...

Opening Scene
(Fade in)
At rise: Elfangor and Ellimist, though they are not visible to the audience.
Setting: What appears to be the very depths of space-time. Every so often, a few strands of time sift past the screen, but they are quick. The audience will only catch a small glimpse of these strands. What they do see, however, is planet earth; turning and revolving as it always does. The audience will see various images of people, places and times all related to this planetary body. Elfangor and Ellimist will observe the dawn of civilization, various wars, battles and revolutions that have since shaped the earth. But they also see the Yeerks, and the threat that they pose to the planet. Elfangor and Ellimist discuss the resistance of Earth, and any possibility of success.

Elfangor:
     And why have the Yeerks chosen this planet, exactly?
Ellimist:
(chuckling, slightly)
     You wish for me to explain the actions and motivations of the Yeerk Empire?
Elfangor:
     Do you know why, or don’t you?
Ellimist:
     I am sure we both know why the Yeerks wish to invade Earth. However, that is not what we are discussing. You asked me why you, Elfangor. You wanted to know why I have done what I did.
Elfangor:
     To which I never received an answer.
Ellimist:
(Amused)
     Ah, but I am giving you an answer, Elfangor. Behold…
(Elfangor watches a scene unfold: seemingly ordinary people, all walking through seemingly ordinary places—cities, small towns, mountains; all those lush and beautiful places that make Earth the fantastic place it truly is.)
Elfangor:
     I have seen this before. You’re playing games with me…Why show me what you’ve taken from me?
Ellimist:
     Because you still have a place in the Universe, Elfangor. You cannot run away from your place in the war. You cannot live a life that is not your own. Not unless you want Earth to suffer the way Hork-Bajir has suffered.
Elfangor:
     You’re saying that the humans will lose.
Ellimist:
     Who’s to say what is carved into the stone?
Elfangor:
     I assumed that would have been you…
Ellimist:
     There are trillions upon trillions upon trillions of strands; each just as important as the last—each connected in some way. Your interference has jeopardized the future of Earth. I must undo what you have done.
(Elfangor catches a glimpse of different coloured strands, passing through Earth)
Ellimist:
     That is why you must fight, Elfangor. Earth will not be lost. There will be others to oppose the Yeerks. But only if you agree to return to your true home. Only then may man survive.
Elfangor:
     Do I have much of a choice?
Ellimist:
     You know the answer to that, Elfangor. We cannot interfere. I cannot make you do what you do not wish to do. You act of your own accord. However, you have seen what the Yeerks have done. I believe you know the proper decision to make.
Elfangor:
     Then you know what my answer is.
Ellimist:
     Do not be saddened, Elfangor. There is still hope. Out of respect for life, we must all endure. You know that better than any other individual. Your sacrifice will not be in vain.
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