Petition to get movie made

[Blazing Angel]

I'll make you guys a deal. If I ever become an indipendently wealthy millionare, I'll see what I can do about makign an animorphsm movie.

[yunyun]

You can tell it has somewhat of a following since their are 4846 fanfictions on it for fanfiction.net.

I guess another way to see how popular animorphs is is to consider amount of forums/fan groups, and amount of members in them. Like RAF has 4560 members. On FG, an artemis fowl forum I go on, there's 156815 members.

[Kyle]

Again, this has probably been mentioned ad nauseam but it has always seemed to me that the Animorphs content and format would be far more conducive to some kind of animated movie (or series).  I don't know why everyone seems so insistent on a live-action movie/series (we all saw how that worked already...).  Am I missing something?

I don't like the idea because most animation studios are so embarrassingly incompetent. If you had someone like pixar doing it, sure I'd bite. but your not going to get a studio of that caliber.  Its a lot more realistic to get at least a tolerable adaption in live action than animation for something like this.  Plus I bet they did animation they would do it with motion capture, which sucks the life out of everything.

[SkyMorpher]

I disagree, I don't think motion capture is that bad at all.

[Blazing Angel]

If we did make this live action we would need a CGI budget big enough to feed my ex-wife* for a week.

*Please note that this is assuming that in a future where I am indipenently wealthy I will have an ex-wife.

[TobiasMasonPark]

Again, this has probably been mentioned ad nauseam but it has always seemed to me that the Animorphs content and format would be far more conducive to some kind of animated movie (or series).  I don't know why everyone seems so insistent on a live-action movie/series (we all saw how that worked already...).  Am I missing something?

I don't like the idea because most animation studios are so embarrassingly incompetent. If you had someone like pixar doing it, sure I'd bite. but your not going to get a studio of that caliber.  Its a lot more realistic to get at least a tolerable adaption in live action than animation for something like this.  Plus I bet they did animation they would do it with motion capture, which sucks the life out of everything.

     I don't imagine Pixar would take a project like this.

[Noelle]

While it would be a lifelong dream to see Animorphs make it to the big screen, it does have a lot of things going against it.

Really, I think the best thing that it has going for it is going on right now: a re-release of the book series, generating new interest.  I don't really know how well they are doing in the book stores, I think if KAA actually rewrote the series (as in, redid the books that the ghost writers did) then the popularity would explode with both people who felt disappointed in the series and those same people wanting to get their kids into the series.

I think as a Fandom, Animorphs has a really solid base, the problem is it came out in a time when fandoms were just being born to speak, when internet was new and fanfic was basically unheard of.  I think if the series came out at the same time Harry Potter did, then it would have been as big as Harry Potter.  Even scholastic/KAA said they were surprised that the series survived as long as it did and I can vaguely remember an interview saying that she didn't know why fans were still buying the books late into the series.  (Which may be why she kind of rushed an ending because she wanted to write other series.)

But as it is now, Animorphs is really eclipsed by other, newer fandoms because they had that strong base right off the bat.


So, I guess to finalize my TL:DR, there can be a little bit of hope for the series to be put on the screen in a not-so-fail fashion.  It's hard to tell what will hit the box office next, some movies have put famous books and books series on the screen, and if an entrepreneurial director saw the potential in the animorphs fanbase they might pick it up.  What it would take to prove to them that it is worth it, I'm not really sure, I bet a lot of that is going to depend on how well the book sales of the series are doing now.