Academy Award winner Ryan Coogler is producing a reboot of the sci-fi franchise Animorphs for Disney+. The series, in early development at 20th Television, follows teenagers who morph into animals to fight an alien invasion. Writer Bayan Wolcott is attached to pen and executive produce the show.
Ryan Coogler, known for his work on films like Black Panther, has taken on production duties for a new Animorphs television series. The project revives the middle-grade book series created by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant, which previously inspired a Nickelodeon adaptation that aired for two seasons from 1998 to 1990s to 2000s? Wait, 1998-2000. Coogler joins this effort shortly after news of his involvement in an X-Files reboot surfaced weeks earlier. According to Entertainment Weekly, Bayan Wolcott, who has credits on The Testaments and The Summer I Turned Pretty, will write and executive produce the series. Proximity Media executives Simone Harris, vice president and head of TV, and Dezi Gallegos, director of TV development, are overseeing the project. The official logline describes Animorphs as centering on a group of teenagers uncovering a hidden threat amid high school life, relationships, and curfews. The reboot aims to capture the essence of the original books, where protagonists gain the ability to morph into animals following an alien encounter.