An Animorphs Movie

Which is why it should be an anime, not a movie. Anime can frequently show the level of gore in the series.

http://hiracdelest.com/news/?p=5293

Well this is a punch to the crotch.

(Also Jesus that website is 90s)

Thank god. The anime can still happen!

I don't know why Japan would particularly care overmuch about making an adaptation of Animorphs or how a film series would prevent them from doing so.

He/she means anime style. Halo got an anime, for example. I'm pretty sure that one was produced in America.

No, the shorts were made by Japanese animation studios.

If anything, the increased independence there was worse as it allowed said studios to make canon-defiling monstrosities...

And even so, if the argument is that Animorphs is simply too episodic to work in a film (though this is literally in the middle of a conversation about how that's not necessarily the case), anime-style might not be the best bet either - since the typical anime storytelling style tends towards being arc-centric rather than episode-centric.

edited 18th Sep '15 11:07:12 AM by KnownUnknown

I can and will make it work!

Any style of animation would probably be best, since it'd be much easier to actually have them morphed (or un-morphed for Tobias) for significant portions of the work.

This especially. Also, I feel that anime is good at capturing the raw emotion in some of the series most iconic and tragic moments.

If they were to make an animated Animorphs series I would want this illustrator.

Those are awesome, but I was thinking I would go with something like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood's animation style.

I'm not sure this is quite the right series for muscle fetish.

Not THAT part, geez.

Visser Three is a homunculus.

Morphing is alchemy. Z-Space is how they beat the law of equivalent exchange. Or something.

edited 20th Sep '15 1:20:45 PM by KnownUnknown

JUST a similar animation style, guys.

New report on an Animorphs movie. It's being made with the collaboration of Scholastic and Picturestart, and is also coming with a re-release of the first 6 books and a graphic novel adaptation.

I feel like Animorphs works better as an animated TV show with story arcs than as a movie.

The only way I can really imagine Animorphs working as a standalone movie is if they play really loosely with the adaptation, like comic book movies do. Just take the characters, borrow some themes and plot elements from the books, and just write a new plot from near-scratch that's designed specifically for a two-hour movie structure.

My memory of the Animorphs books is very, very hazy, but from what I remember, none of the books are self-contained enough to be adapted into a movie standalone, while the multiple-book arcs are much too long and too densely packed to be combined into a normal movie runtime.

I mean, the first book could probably make a decent movie. It's not really stand alone, but it stands enough alone to be a good start. It would probably need some expansion (an extra prologue in space with Ax, maybe), but it has a good beginning, a good middle, and a good end.

But shoving it together with any of the other books—especially the early ones, which are far from perfect—is likely to ruin it.

For a movie 1 arc, my guess they would adapt mostly Book 1, but integrate parts from other early books like finding Ax, Marco learning the truth about his mom. Climax might be the Yeerk Pool raid in Book 1 or being taken prisoner aboard the Pool ship in Book 5.

I remember reading a couple of the books, but being so serialized it's kind of hard to start at a mid point. To be faithful to the books would probably require a full TV series, with a budget bigger than the Nickelodeon show, though I imagine a strong writer could condense some of the plot into a decent intro movie.

There are a lot of books that basically amount to filler, where very little of substance actually happens to move the story along. I think you could probably make a series of films, something like the Harry Potter octology, by trimming some of the fat and maybe doing some compositing.

It wouldn't be a comprehensive Animorphs adaptation covering all the material there is to cover, but I think something like 6-8 movies would be enough space to hit the important stuff. That time the Animorphs got blown up by a nuclear sub, travelled back in time to the dinosaurs, and then let a genocide happen for the sake of preserving historical accuracy was some intense f*cking shit, but maybe isn't strictly necessary to the plot.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jun 19th 2020 at 8:50:22 AM

It wasn't really a genocide. A species was wiped out by a natural disaster.