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Oscar winning Sinners director Ryan Coogler is continuing his trend of bringing fan-favorite '90s sci-fi stories into the modern era signing on to executive produce a new Animorphs show for Disney Plus through his company Proximity Media, with Bayan Wolcott serving as showrunner.
Announced via Variety, Animorphs joins Coogler's upcoming X-Files reboot as classic '90s properties he's now attached to as a producer. Animorphs is a bit more of a cult-classic than X-Files, but it's still remembered with reverence by a generation of readers who grew up with the books.
Created by writer KA Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, the series follows a group of human teenagers who are drafted into a war between two alien races and imbued with the power to transform into animals – AKA, Animorphs. The books are notable among readers for their frank approach to mature concepts such as sexuality, trauma, and death on a deeper level than other contemporary YA novels.
