TV series by the makers of Avatar The Last Airbender. Think how much audience overlap they probably have.
True, an animated series seems to offer the most leeway. Why Scifi cartoons aren't more popular still baffles me.
Fight smart, not fair.Animated does seem like it could be interesting.
Heck, even an anime-esque show could probably work.
I could still see a live action show, though. I think the problem would be that the series was pretty mature and edgy to begin with. Any live-action (or animated show) you see nowadays on Nick or Disney, are mostly comedies. I could see people saying it now—"Dark and edgy is sooooo 90s. This is the 2000s now where everything is supposed to be cheery and funny...."
"When lights out/I'm like a gremlin/Feed me hiphop and I start tremblin'"—Eric B. and RakimI think Animorphs would work better as an animated series, but then it takes away the Paranoia Fuel of the original books, so I think maybe it would make an Epic Movie instead :D
In an anime, I'll be the Tsundere Dark Magical Girl who likes purple MY own profile is actually HERE!In an ideal world I'd like an animated series.
But if they made a big-ass epic movie, with Avatar styled graphics? That'd be awesome
edited 14th Feb '11 1:56:10 PM by Latia
I don't think Animorphs can be done in live action on a small enough budget to make it viable as a live action series nor can its story be compressed enough to make a good movie or even a good trilogy of movies. Also a film would have to more boisterous to capture a large audience and would lose the paranoia anyway.
defiantly animate it. more leeway, and you can make the morphing look cooler...on a side note I found the first 6 books in a tub in the basement...nostalgia.
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Not really. Bolivian Army Endings are by definition, frustratingly inconclusive. Now if she went on for another chapter just to show how all the characters got brutally and mercilessly slaughtered, including Cassie who wasn't on the suicide ship... well *that* would mean no more books.
The way it is now, there's enough leeway to say that they might have survived, even if the odds were against it.
That said, if there were more books it would detract from the whole message of the original ending, which is that war sucks, and that it never ends.
It could happen, but it wouldn't necessarily be a good idea.
I mean it wouldn't have the same feel at all. There's no infiltration, there's no Mascarade. We only don't what happened to the characters not what happened to the story.
Fight smart, not fair.A new book series?....I dunno. The series had a pretty satisfying run. The last book was kind of open-ended but according to K.A. Applegate's open letter, it's the only other way a war story could end.
But yeah, an animated series would definitely be interesting. I personally think that a photorealistic approach,(similar to the styles used in the Godzilla series and the MIB series) could be really effective for the Paranoia Fuel and everything....
Man...just thinking about it is psyching me out—too bad its not gonna happen
Even if the main series is over, there's still room for another Chronicles book or something.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayThe andiolite (I know I'm misspelling that) chronicles was a pretty fun read.
Untitled Power Rangers StoryFrankly, I think that to turn it into an animated TV series you'd have to severly Bowdlerize a lot of it. In the battle scenes, the characters are almost always badly maimed (I seem to remember Rachel using her own dismembered arm as a weapon once), and turning it into another formulaic cartoon would, in my opinion, cheapen the franchise.
edited 19th Feb '11 6:23:05 AM by Locoman
If they do make a new tv show, either it won't be for kids,(I'm thinking of something somewhere in between Dr Who and Alien). or it will be heavy adaption decay, with all the HONF in the books .
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I was wondering; the Animorphs was made into a tv series in the 90s which was....ok (somewhat), and the book is being reprinted with new covers (perhaps to gain popularity among a newer crowd).
I was thinking that Animorphs could benefit from one of two things: (1) a tv reboot (preferrably on Syfy to provide original programming and replace Caprica/Battlestar Gallactica, except, you know, more accessible for kids).
Or (2)A film series reboot.
I understand that it is a very complicated, dramatic series that will be incredibly difficult to translate, but I think it would be worth a shot.
CG is much better now then it used to be and supposedly K.A. Applegate is interested in a film adaptation (can't remember where I heard that from, so don't quote me on it too much.
I know that this maybe one of the most difficult series to ever be adapted for a film or tv show (with financial backing being a prime concern) but I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way?
edited 12th Feb '11 7:45:34 PM by Gr3mlinify
"When lights out/I'm like a gremlin/Feed me hiphop and I start tremblin'"—Eric B. and Rakim