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An “Animorphs” TV series is in early development at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively.
Bayan Wolcott is attached to write and executive produce the adaptation, with Ryan Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Zinzi Coogler executive producing on behalf of Proximity Media. Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman executive produce via Scholastic, with Scholastic having published the books on which the show is based. 20th Television is the studio. Proximity Media’s Simone Harris, vice president and head of TV, and Dezi Gallegos, director of development of TV, will also oversee the project.
The official logline states that the show “follows a group of teenagers who uncover a hidden threat lurking beneath their everyday lives, all while juggling relationships, curfews, and the chaos of High School.”
Ryan Coogler seems to be living the dream of a nerdy '90s kid by making new versions of the generation’s sci-fi touchstones. He’s working on rebooting The X-Files and Variety reports he’ll also serve as executive producer on a TV adaptation of K. A. Applegate’s YA series The Animorphs, which is in early development at Disney Plus.
For anyone who didn’t grow up running to the teen section of the book store to see what fresh body horror Scholastic had put on the cover, The Animorphs was a truly weird and wild series that included 54 main books and several spinoffs published between 1996 and 2001. It follows a group of teenagers who discover that the Earth is being quietly invaded by a species of mind-controlling alien slugs called Yeerks.
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Variety reports that Disney+ is developing a TV series based on the Animorphs books in conjunction with Ryan Coogler’s production company, Proximity Media.
The project’s official description states that it will follow “a group of teenagers who uncover a hidden threat lurking beneath their everyday lives, all while juggling relationships, curfews, and the chaos of High School.” While that snippet curiously lacks one of the more notable aspects of the Animorphs books (teenagers morphing into various animals), it does follow the other basic beats of that series and positions the show as more than meets the eye (in this case, high school drama to go along with said morphing).
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