US EditionRyan Coogler Developing New 'Animorphs' TV Series for Disney+
The live-action adaptation will follow teens who can morph into animals as Disney+ expands its YA book-to-series lineup.
- Proximity Media is developing an Animorphs television series for Disney+, with filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian serving as executive producers.
- The original Animorphs series, created by Katherine Applegate, author, and Michael Grant, author, spans 54 main books published between 1996 and 2001, selling more than 35 million copies worldwide.
- Bayan Wolcott, writer and executive producer, is attached to the adaptation, bringing experience from Hulu's The Testaments and FX's Class of '09. The show follows teenagers uncovering a hidden threat while balancing high school life.
- Nickelodeon aired a live-action series between 1998 and 2000, though modern CGI improvements may now better capture the series' complex, body-horror transformations that challenged earlier technical limitations.
- Coogler, fresh from his Oscar win for Sinners, leverages experience from previous Disney streaming collaborations. Although production details remain unannounced, the series expands the studio's young adult book-to-series portfolio.
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