Animorphs TV Show in the Works for Disney+ from Ryan Coogler's Proximity Media

Proximity Media, the institution co-founded by Sinners mastermind Ryan Coogler, is moving connected an Animorphs TV amusement for Disney+.

Details connected the early-in-development adaptation of the classical ‘90s publication bid travel from Variety, which says Coogler, arsenic good arsenic Proximity co-founders Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian, are each connected committee arsenic enforcement producers. The Testaments and The Summer I Turned Pretty writer Bayan Wolcott is attached arsenic a writer and is besides progressive arsenic an enforcement producer.

Animorphs: The Threat Book Cover Art. Image courtesy of Scholastic Publishing.

The Animorphs bid of books from authors Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant got its commencement successful 1996 earlier morphing into respective spinoff projects, including a 1998 TV amusement and Game Boy video game. Beyond being known for its off-putting-but-iconic screen art, wherever radical tin beryllium seen transforming into a assortment of antithetic animals, fans fell successful emotion with its sci-fi story.

A logline for the Animorphs amusement suggests it volition astatine slightest somewhat travel the root material. It says the bid “follows a radical of teenagers who uncover a hidden menace lurking beneath their mundane lives, each portion juggling relationships, curfews, and the chaos of High School.”

Original publication steadfast Scholastic Publishing’s Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman are besides progressive arsenic enforcement producers. Proximity vice president and caput of TV Simone Harris and manager of improvement of TV Dezi Gallegos volition oversee the project. The cast, merchandise date, occurrence count, and different accusation person yet to beryllium announced arsenic Proximity irons retired the details.

Proximity has worked wrong the Disney streaming sphere before, having helped bring projects similar the Black Panther spinoff Eyes of Wakanda, arsenic good arsenic the live-action Marvel amusement Ironheart, to beingness past year. After wrapping up enactment connected Coogler’s Sinners, which besides premiered successful 2025 and saw occurrence astatine the 98th Academy Awards, the institution volition beryllium progressive with the director’s upcoming The X-Files reboot.

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