News Animorphs ’90s Book Fair Kids Rejoice: Disney+ Is Adapting Animorphs Into a TV Series The noted lack of television shows involving teens transforming into horses will finally be addressed By Matthew Byrd | Published on April 3, 2026 Image: Scholastic Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Scholastic Variety reports that Disney+ is developing a TV series based on the Animorphs books in conjunction with Ryan Coogler’s production company, Proximity Media. The project’s official description states that it will follow “a group of teenagers who uncover a hidden threat lurking beneath their everyday lives, all while juggling relationships, curfews, and the chaos of High School.” While that snippet curiously lacks one of the more notable aspects of the Animorphs books (teenagers morphing into various animals), it does follow the other basic beats of that series and positions the show as more than meets the eye (in this case, high school drama to go along with said morphing). Ryan Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Zinzi Coogler will serve as executive producers on the series via their production company Proximity Media. Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman will also serve as executive producers on behalf of Scholastic, and 20th Television will be the series’ studio. Beyond that, little is known about the show at this time. For some, though, the mere existence of a modern TV series based on K. A. Applegate and Michael Grant’s sci-fi stories is reason enough to get excited. A staple of the legendary Scholastic book fair scene of the 1990s, Animorphs likely attracted your attention with its magnificently dated covers that showcased the various stages of kids like you and I transforming into animals. Those who dared to delve beyond those frequently bizarre covers found the continuing adventure of teenagers who use their newfound morphing abilities to battle the secret invasion of a group of parasitic aliens with help from a friendly extraterrestrial being known as Ax. Though an Animorphs TV series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2000 did an admirable job of capturing the basics of the series (you can check out its notably ’90s trailer below), it never quite matched the spectacle that many likely imagined as they read the 50+ books that made up the original Animorphs run. You can blame some of the translation shortcomings on the woeful inadequacies of ’90s television special effects and their inability to capture the magic of those book covers, but it’s about more than that. Wonderful weirdness aside, the Animorphs books often benefited from a surprisingly dense and dark mythos that elevated all the shapeshifting shenanigans. One imagines that a modern version of that series will pay more attention to the serialized storytelling potential. Failing that, it will probably offer the opportunity to watch a kid morph into a starfish. No word regarding Animorphs’ possible release date or any other major production details, but we will of course, keep you informed as the situation evolves.[end-mark] The post ’90s Book Fair Kids Rejoice: Disney+ Is Adapting Animorphs Into a TV Series appeared first on Reactor.