New books, new TV Show?

[Andalite_Shorm]

(God knows how many times this has been posted)
Okay, if the books are being re-released, do you think they would make another TV show? Providing the books are as popular as they were last time, or even a movie, like if they did book 1 then skip straight to #51, then make a tv series after for the books inbetween, you know? I mean, I think they were put off by the low views of the last tv series, but they mustn't read the internet, otherwise they'd of known it was the graphics and story-twisting not the actual Animorphs side of it...but enough of that...what do you think?

[Darth Zakryn]

I figure they can't do any worse than they did last time. I mean, lassoing an Andalite? Are you for real?

[NateSean]

I could see a mostly CGI series in the works. CGI is even beginning to infect the time honored Sesame Street, so I doubt it's that hard to get ahold of anymore.

[Chad32]

I've seen threads about the possibility of a new TV show, and I stand by the belief that animation is the way to go. A CGI movie by Pixar would be best. I don't know if they'll do it, but if they have a good budget and stay close to the series, I'll be happy.

[Slushie Man]

I'd be all for it, if done right. Things is, I just can't see it being done right unless, like Chad said, it's animated, but then I fear they'd gloss over a lot of the more mature aspects since it is animated.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Theoretically, if they made Smallville work, they can make this work.

[Slushie Man]

Thing is, Smallville relays far more on human interaction then it does special effects. And they only have a very limited budget, hence why we normally only see the same couple effects re-used over and over and the episodes where we get a lot, the effects seem to not be as good.

Plus Animorphs would need A LOT of different, highly-trained, animals in order to work with live-action and that's not only unrealistic, but if it would be, it would be far out of the range of their budget. That's why the original series used the animals it did, because those were the only trained ones they could afford.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Doesn't Phoenix work at a zoo? Couldn't we borrow his animals?

[Slushie Man]

Unless they're highly-trained animals, then they're still no use 

[Dogman15]

I always thought that for certain animal movements, like needing a Marco in Gorilla morph to act a bit, they could use some convincing CG. The Animorphs were always looking around in specific directions and even moving their "arms" like humans would. Cassie (as an Osprey) even once hugged Rachel (as a  Deinonychus).

[NateSean]

Or just zip on over to the BBC and borrow the guys who did the walking with dinosaurs series and Primevil and bam. Animorphs.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Alright...Is there any sort of network with enough money to pay for special effects, animal trainers and crew?

[Slushie Man]

No. That kind of money is just unrealistic. There's a reason you don't normally see animals in any TV show beyond regular house-trained pets.

The only way we would EVER see another Animorphs TV show would be in animated form.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Animated wouldn't be too bad. I just really wanted to see a live action show.

[wildweathel]

It's a real shame that Animorphs never really took off in Japan, because we missed out on the awesomeness that would have been but never was nor will be Satoshi Kon's Animorphs.

Think about it. 

Damn it!

But, that's not possible anymore, so I submit my B-list dream team.

Art Director: Mitsuo Iso.
An up-and-coming animator-turned-director, Iso is already a master of the new medium of digital 2D animation--particularly using it to convey emotion and not just as a gee-whiz technical effect.
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Stills don't really capture the magic, but here's what he looks like.



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Animation: Studio Madhouse. 

Music Direction/Composition: Joe Hisaishi.
Spirited Away.  Castle in the Sky.  I rest my case.

Script:  Chiaki J. Konaka.
You need someone crazy to deal with this crazy story.  And just look at this guy: he's pretty much the only non-foreigner in Japan to go around with a middle initial.  People younger than me might recognize Digimon Tamers--the crazy idea that a dumb weekend boys' cartoon could be about grief and forgiveness and include an expy of Trinity from The Matrix.  People older than me might recognize Serial Experiments Lain (the first anime to require Cliff Notes) or RahXephon (where he also worked with Iso).
 
But the biggest argument for Konaka Animorphs is that he wrote that horribly, horribly violent Shadow Star Naru Taru.  While it is one of my least favorite shows ever (ugh, I had enough of mean kids in real life), we certainly know he can make ambiguously psychopathic preteens sound believable.  And scare the piss out of you.

Series Director: Hideaki Anno
Speaking of crazy, here's the man himself, founder of the studio that gave us Gurren Lagann and whose personal brainchild is the ultimate mind-screw anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.  With Anno at the helm, morphing will be suitably gross, morals suitably gray, and fans suitably serviced.  Whilst not perfect, as long as the budget doesn't run out, someone's around to veto the most egregious panty-shots, and he doesn't decide to make a fifth version of NGE (probably our biggest hurdle) it'll probably work out. 

Would have to, 'cuz we ain't got Kon no more...