“Animorphs” Movie in the Works - Can’t be any worse than the Nickelodeon show

I remember reading a few of these, which ever volumes I could get my hand on without much care for continuity.
If the movie piqued my interest enough then maybe I'll comeback to it proper.
 
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A Widdle Woach said:
There’s no way in hell the movie or god willing movies series will go on long enough to cover the tragedy that was the Auxiliary Animorphs. Or even the David saga.

I understand that war is hell and they’re literally a group of teens but god damn Jake. That shit haunts me to this day.
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Oh god, the Auxiliary Animorphs...that was one hell of a thing.

Jake has to go full harsh war leader to finally end the war. Remember the Yerk pool on the main mothership?

The full David Saga would make for a really good movie, but it couldn’t be the first film. It’d have to be like the third or something.
 
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If a forty year-old Shawn Ashmore doesn't come back to play Jake again, I will be very disappointed XD
 
They should've made a movie of it back when the books were popular. I would've loved to see transformation sequences that looked like this way back when:
 
I still remember how disappointed I was when I read the final book and saw it ended on a cliff hanger. At the time I didn't even know the series had come to an end. I was at the local public library one day and saw the book there, and read on the back how it was the final one. There's still over a dozen books in the series I never got around to reading, so I was confused as hell when I read the last one because I had missed so many events.

SteelPlatedHeart said:
That Nick show was a mess. No way they could have shown all the dismemberment and disemboweling and such that happened in those books. Plus the amount of exegetical crisis turning into certain animals went through.
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The show doesn't hold up well, but I was so excited when my dad brought home a vhs tape of the show one day. The theme song is cheesy as hell, but man is it nostalgic:
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
That Nick show was a mess. No way they could have shown all the dismemberment and disemboweling and such that happened in those books. Plus the amount of exegetical crisis turning into certain animals went through.
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No ants.

Remember when Rachel was in starfish morph and got cut in half which led to there being the ‘good’ Rachel who was too timid to do anything of use and ‘bad’ Rachel who was ready to bust heads just because someone looked at her wrong? It made absolutely no sense even for Animorphs but god it was fun.
 
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A Widdle Woach said:
No ants.

Remember when Rachel was in starfish morph and got cut in half which led to there being the ‘good’ Rachel who was too timid to do anything of use and ‘bad’ Rachel who was ready to bust heads just because someone looked at her wrong? It made absolutely no sense even for Animorphs but god it was fun.
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The ants and starfish ones are exactly what I was thinking of.

And timid Rachel also got the long term strategizing skills while bad Rachel got only short term thinking. I did always really like how they included the animal biology/mindsets/ect into the morphing. Added a bit more to it than just changing into an animal, you also had to deal with the basic instinct and aggressions of certain animal.

Or that one time one of them morphed into a Yerk and took over a host for a mission. That was super trippy.
 
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Sundae said:
I still remember how disappointed I was when I read the final book and saw it ended on a cliff hanger. At the time I didn't even know the series had come to an end. I was at the local public library one day and saw the book there, and read on the back how it was the final one. There's still over a dozen books in the series I never got around to reading, so I was confused as hell when I read the last one because I had missed so many events.



The show doesn't hold up well, but I was so excited when my dad brought home a vhs tape of the show one day. The theme song is cheesy as hell, but man is it nostalgic:
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To be honest the ancillary books that focused on the Yeerk-Andalite War were far more interesting. The writers seemed far less restrained for those and got to play around. I got the impression, especially later on that they became bored with the kids fighting their guerilla war and wanted to explore the galaxy more.

Also would again be really hard for woke Hollywood. The Yeerks primary motivation secondary to finding more hosts was assuaging a racial victim complex. They were super peeved that the Andalites were "better" then them and a large part of their war stemmed not from a desire for hosts but racial resentment. Visser 3 in particular embodies this, as the one Yeerk with an Andalite host. This gave him great prestige as it was seen as turning the tables on the arrogant andalites.

Who at the start just wanted to help the Yeerks escape there barbaric ways it should be noted.
 
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As others have stated, compressing a lengthy book series into one or several movies won't work (and that's not including the companion books) along with the material that is not woke. For example, the Hork-Bajir are a tribal and primitive species that have the intelligence of a human toddler but are used as shock troopers for the Yeerks because of their fierce appearance.
 
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It’s probably going to be it’s own stand alone thing. Like a reboot/reimagining that will leave itself open for more movies if it does well.
 
CivilianOfTheFandomWars said:
I just realized that Animorphs is basically babies first Warhammer 40k book series. We've got the grimdark, the intergalactic war with a bunch of different factions, the odd amount of 'deep' lore, and the horrors of war. At this point, aren't the heroes basically Tanith's First and Only?
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It was 40k for furries.
 
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I grew up with Animorphs.

I will never forget... one of my early grade school teachers gave every one of her students a box that had, among other random things that I don't remember, either one of the first several Animorphs books, or a Goosebumps book, as a Christmas present. I got the second Animorphs book where Rachel turned into a cat...

I immediately loved the rest of the books, indifferent of quality, and so I read every other book in the series. I didn't even understand the reason why the MANY books written by shitty ghostwriters were inferior to the original good ones *at the time*...

But here's the thing... Animorphs was such an intrinsic product of the 90's, that I would not only say that it *could not* work in the 'present day,' but also that it *did not* originally work in the "present day re-release" in the 2010's when they tried to re-edit the original Animorphs books to scrub away every 90's reference that they could, pretending instead that it *always* took place "in the current year for all you fellow kids"..
I do not believe that it's a coincidence that the "2010's Animorph's book revival" stopped by book 7.

I just looked it up, apparently they released a digital only revised version of Animorphs book 8, but stopped there, because kids 'today' [Ok yeah, technically 10 years ago] don't care about Animorphs anymore. Which just makes me wonder where they're going with the new film...

Also, the Nickelodeon Animorphs TV show was utter shit... My family didn't even have Nickelodeon in our cable plan at the time, so I didn't see it until much later.... but I distinctly remember having fantasies about how awesome an Animorphs tv show would be, after I heard that they were making one... and later being immensely disappointed when I found out how shitty the tv show actually was... Don't do it again....

I hope this movie is great, but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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