90s kids rejoice, the popular book series Animorphs is coming to Disney+ in the form of a live action series.
Bayan Wolcott is set to write and serve as an executive producer for the adaptation, joined by Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian, who will executive produce through Proximity Media. Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman will also be executive producers representing Scholastic, the publisher of the original book series that inspired the show. The project will be produced by 20th Television, with oversight from Proximity Media’s Simone Harris, vice president and head of TV, along with Dezi Gallegos, the director of TV development.
The book series is told in first person, with all six main characters taking turns narrating the books through their own perspectives. The core themes of the series are horror, war, imperialism, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom, family, and growing up.
Published between June 1996 and May 2001, the series consists of 54 books and includes ten companion books, eight of which fit into the series’ continuity (the Animorphs Chronicles and Megamorphs books) and two that are gamebooks not fitting into the continuity (the Alternamorphs books).
The books were adapted into a television series of the same name on Nickelodeon, YTV and Global Television Network, which ran from 1998 to 1999. The series has also been adapted to audiobook form as well as a series of graphic novels starting in 2020. A film adaptation was officially announced in 2020 but never came to fruition.
