How an Animorphs TV show and Movie should be done-REDUX

[Benioff]

There's a typo in the subject line and where's the idea for a movie?

[Phoenix004]

It was decided that it might be best to merge the two topics, so Esplin merged them earlier.

[beachbeagle]

Although he's being kind of a tool about it, he's right about a seven hour movie being a pretty ridiculous idea.

Attention spans aren't that long.  Hell, Lord Of The Rings tired me and that was three.

Okay, I agree that a seven hour movie is long. I too got tired with Lord of the Rings. Still, Yorick needs to get the idea that being as blunt as he was is completely out of line. A person watching a seven hour movie isn't an idiot, they just have the attention span and interest to sit through it. We can debate these things, but let's keep the conversation polite PLEASE.

[XenomorphLV426]

Well, since a seven hour movie hasn't ever been made...

Ever...

[zaprowsdower]

Never heard of Les Vampires? 7 1/2 hours long and one of the greatest silents and all around movies of all time?
No?
Than you should probably stop addressing that point.

[shift]

add some swearing, good special effects, cassie/jake and racheal/tobias going further than just kissing, plenty of gore and i think it would be quite successful as a show at around about 9pm, for a childrens book it's quite adult anyway with the constant moral dilemmas, character development and the less than happy ending.

edit: add in the marco/ax-racheal as well, could lead to some great drama if tobias or racheal saw them 0.0

[morfowt]

add some swearing, good special effects, cassie/jake and racheal/tobias going further than just kissing, plenty of gore

I won't be watching that then...

[zaprowsdower]

PLEASE, let's not try to pornography animorphs, alright?

[Phoenix004]

"More than kissing" doesn't always mean pornography.

I'm not a big fan of romance in books/movies, but it would make sense for them to explore the Animorph relationships more.

[morfowt]

"More than kissing" doesn't always mean pornography.

I'm not a big fan of romance in books/movies, but it would make sense for them to explore the Animorph relationships more.

it's not because of that that I wouldn't watch it. it's the stuff like gore that makes me not wanna watch it.

[shift]

i was joking for the most part btw

[esplin]

 

[rossabo]

Hey guys, I just thought I would give a quick update on the movie status according to Michael Grant:

"4- Talked to various Hollywood weasels re: ANIMORPHS and GONE.  Results:  blah blah blah, we respect your work, blah blah blah. "

Apparently it's not going to well, though it seems like there is at least interest. I'm surprised that GONE doesn't have more interest, because that concept seems really fresh and would adapt quite well into a movie IMO.

http://stupidblogname.com/2009/04/long-time-no-post/

[Benioff]

A person watching a seven hour movie isn't an idiot, they just have the attention span and interest to sit through it.

It's more impractical than that. Not only would a person watch a even hour long movie, they would get hungry AND have to go the bathroom and no movie theater or studio would ever recoup their costs.

[Viss3r]

Not sure if I’m going to get eaten alive for this post because it’s my first one... but yes I agree with the few of you who are saying that Yorick’s changes are you great because they are really...  Animorphs I view, as being very dark, I just finished a full re-read yesterday took me about 2 months in-between work and you can’t alienate fans and the story arc worked.

I don’t think you could pull of the story of the animorphs in movies because the amount of content in the books couldn’t really be summed up in even 10 movies.. And how many really good A grade movies have 10 of them come out?

What I think could be interesting is doing the hork-bajir chronicles it would be challenging because 1) There is no humans in it at all 2) Hork-Bajir (The planet itself) would be challenging and expensive to create how tall where the trees?  However it would have the advantage of being in the very beginning of the yeerk invasion so it could explain it from there.  Possibly try the andalite chronicles after that.

And IF I Guess it’s a big IF they got interest you could do a TV show about the series but skip books like No 2 or merge them into other briefly but you would have to keep the main story the same make some changes sure, change all the conversations I would of liked to of seen Tobias and Rachel explored more, and it still would need to be Violent, but you couldn’t have the amount of gore they talked about in the books... and it wouldn’t really need a lot of swearing I don’t think...

3 Short seasons would be cool, ending the first one on 21 with the Jake/David fight the 2nd season could end with 40 had a pretty cool fight at the end, and start up the last season with No 41 I always thought that this was an important book.  And it all sorta leads up to how Jake was dehumanized or whatever.
There are moments in the books I think are to good to change for shows some parts would always be hard to do but moments like in 45 where Rachel says to that Blue band A Hork-Bajir's Gunna die on this peir Mr Grath... But its not gunna be me" and Ax on the train about to blow up the pool and so many others.  No doubt it would take money and be hard, but I mean who even imagined X-men or Spiderman turning out like they did, just about everyone loves them.  Not saying it will be done just that it could.  And I would rather it be done right not a carbon copy of the books but the main story the same.

Anyway that’s my 2 cents pick it to shreds... Sorry about the length