Hope you like horrifying CGI, because we're getting an Animorphs movie.
After spending the week getting destroyed by Gen Z on TikTok, here’s some good news for millennials: every 90s kid’s favorite portmanteau-titled book series is finally(?) getting a film adaptation.
For the unacquainted(/Irish), the Animorphs were a scrappy gang of teens who, according to Wikipedia (because I could not remember, sorry), “obtain the ability to transform into any animal they touch.” “Obtain” is doing a lot of work there, but sure! The teens use their morphing ability to fight the Yeerks, alien parasites hell-bent on galactic domination (I assume).
The strongest memory I have of the books is their covers, each of which features a drawing of its protagonist’s multi-step transformation into an animal. They’re every bit as off-putting and amazing as they sound, and I can only hope the adaptation hews closely to the cover designers’ artistic vision.
The live-action film will be co-developed and co-produced by Scholastic and Picturestart, and I can only assume it will be the first of many.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]
Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.
