News Redwall Netflix Cancels Adaptations of Brian Jacques’ Redwall Book Series The streamer had plans to make a feature film and limited series based on the 22 books By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 9, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share I missed the news in 2021 announcing that Netflix had picked up the rights to adapt Bryan Jacques’ 22 Redwall books into an animated film followed by a television series. Today’s news that those projects are officially dead, however, still hit hard when I realized what could have been. According to Rick Ellis at Forbes, the project has been in rough waters for some time. Patrick McHale (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), whom the streamer hired back in 2021 to write the script for the feature, left in 2023. We haven’t heard much more since then, though the Forbes article notes that Netflix still has a placeholder page up for the film, and lists it as starring Marion Day, Adrian Egan, and David Hemblen, which suggests that the project was relatively far along before it was axed and rights reverted to Penguin Random House. The Redwall middle-grade series, for those who have yet to have the pleasure of reading it, features anthropomorphized animals like mice, badgers, and otters living in a medieval-esque setting. One protagonist, for example, is Martin the Warrior, a brave mouse who is a great mentor and always there for his friends. The books are, in a few words, fucking awesome, if my memory of reading them at eight years old holds true. Options expiring on novels is, of course, not an irregular occurrence. But it seemed like Netflix had done a nontrivial amount of work on the Redwall projects, and the IP is a strong one that seems ripe for adaptation, especially in this day when adaptations reign supreme. Here’s to hoping the rights get picked up once again, though of course we still have the books, which I can’t wait to reread with my kid. [end-mark] The post Netflix Cancels Adaptations of Brian Jacques’ Redwall Book Series appeared first on Reactor.