considering how creatively bankrupt hollywood and nostalgiabait is, how have they not done an animorphs movie?

Slow down, loyal consoomer goy. We need to get through videogames and anime first

What could she do as a starfish?
They just lay around

>>211979054
I want to see them adapt self published kino next.
I want to see Chuck Tingle on the big screen

is she of age?

This would only work as an animation.

>>211978603 (OP)
Barely remember these, were the villains a bunch of mindcontrol alien brain slugs?

>>211979154
>What could she do as a starfish?
Geez, man, use your imagination

>>211979154
>Can literally morph into other people
>Infinitely more useful
>Only do this once in all the books
>Instead turn into fucking animals like starfishes
Animorphs fucking sucked.

>>211979154
>What could she do as a starfish?
Teach people a moral lesson about being good for the sake of good and not because of promises of reward or punishment from a nonexistent deity

>>211979154
Sneak into a villain's aquarium and eves drop. Stow away on ships around the globe. Regenerate.

>>211978603 (OP)
The book series ends with all the heroes dying in a suicide attack against the alien mother ship. Mite bee cool.

>>211979950
Yes.

>>211980136
>Only do this once in all the books
Saint Cassie didn't like it.

being a kid and you're just stoked to look at weird book covers in the library

>>211980136
>>211981291
didn't the hawk faggot do that shit like every day because he was stuck in hawkform and would morph to human form?

Hard to believe there are worse books than Harry Potter, but it's true, they do exist.

>>211980513
>Regenerate.
they can already regenerate. I remember that being a thing in the books. they turned into whales or dolphins or something and then one of them got her tail ripped off, turned human and then turned back into a dolphin and was fine

>>211978603 (OP)
>rachel is a girlboss
>casey is a soft hippy girl
>you just know they'll make casey a girlboss as well
>marco a latino or a nigger
Series is impossible to adapt
You can either do a series, that will have poor budget and shitty cgi but adapting all the good short stories, or a movie with good transformations and andalites, but it will have a very shitty condensed storyline

>>211981495
to be fair, harry potter had one writer with a central vision.
there are over 60 of these fucking books written by multiple people and the whole thing was created basically by scolastics to sell as many books to YA retards as possible.

>>211981543
>>211978603 (OP)
you know there was a 2 season tv show right?

>a girl starfishing
there is a negative connotation here that hollywood will not touch in the context of a YA novel adaptation

>it's another Rachel book where her morph ability fucks up

>>211981707
That anon is an idiot and doesn't actually watch television or film and he's too illiterate even for YA novels, so he just acts like a contrarian faggot neglected by a single mother with no positive male role model in his life for attention from strangers that don't like him.

>>211978603 (OP)
>how have they not done an animorphs movie?
It would hit to close to home and possibly awaken the collective unconscious. Those books are soft disclosure.

>>211981707
>Alien spaceships
>Alien vs animal fights
>Shapeshifting scenes
>Dark gods

>Live action

Dumb as fuck.

Ah sweet, a jeet thread

>>211981707
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HANDS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ptL3fim9Uw

>Books
Tobias > Marco > Ax > Jake > Rachel > Cassie
>Characters
Marco > Ax > Tobias > Rachel > Jake > Cassie

>>211982931
Oh, yes, "IT'S ALL IN YOUR HANDS!" is bitchin'.

But what about something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ8l919JXs

>>211983272
Interesting

>>211979154
Go undercover as a sphincter

>3-4 movies of main series
>spinoff movies of andalite/hork-bajir/ellimist chronicles + visser
They’re leaving so much money on the table it’s insane

>>211981291
damn Cassie is a fucking cunt

>>211981707
>>211981945
I know that there is a tv series, and the cgi is trash
Yes
that's actually the backbone of my argument
Also
>only like 1 episode narrated by Rachel, non by Case-o
>adapting shit from Megamorph
>changing pov of some of the episodes
>this niggers think this is "a good thing"
Fuck off

>>211983613
If it wasn't for the Ellimist rigging the game, her naivety would have cost them their lives several times over.

Seerow did nothing wrong.

>>211978603 (OP)
no no yes yes yes

>>211978603 (OP)
It's too dark and gory while also being pretty goofy and juvenile. It wouldn't have an audience
>>211979154
Be cloned. That's what happens, she gets cut in half, both sides regenerate and demorph. I think they kill one of them

>>211978603 (OP)
>Dear Animorphs Readers:
>Quite a number of people seem to be annoyed by the final chapter in the Animorphs story. There are a lot of complaints that I let Rachel die. That I let Visser Three/One live. That Cassie and Jake broke up. That Tobias seems to have been reduced to unexpressed grief. That there was no grand, final fight-to-end-all-fights. That there was no happy celebration. And everyone is mad about the cliffhanger ending.
>So I thought I’d respond.
>Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don’t end happily. Not ever. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Always people die in wars. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones.
>That’s what happens, so that’s what I wrote. Jake and Cassie were in love during the war, and end up going their seperate ways afterward. Jake, who was so brave and capable during the war is adrift during the peace. Marco and Ax, on the other hand, move easily past the war and even manage to use their experience to good effect. Rachel dies, and Tobias will never get over it. That doesn’t by any means cover everything that happens in a war, but it’s a start.
>Here’s what doesn’t happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn’t a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don’t do a lot of celebrating. There’s very little chanting of ‘we’re number one’ among people who’ve personally experienced war.

>>211984650
>I’m just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I’ve never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn’t going to do it at the end. I’ve spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I’ve written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I’m a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I’d wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war.
>So, you don’t like the way our little fictional war came out? You don’t like Rachel dead and Tobias shattered and Jake guilt-ridden? You don’t like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you’ll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.
>If you’re mad at me because that’s what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn’t have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers.
It's a war story that refuses to glorify war

>>211984650
>>211984700
holy based

>>211980136
>>Only do this once in all the books
They did this at least 4times you lying fag kys now

>>211984700
I mean
There's also people that are really happy and profit a lot from war, you don't see that reflected on the book
You also don't see the fanatic crowd that do want to go to war
You also don't see the mercenary type that goes to war as a job, and just paint houses later with no remorse or guilt and would happily go again for a good pay
There's a lot of end states of war that leaves a lot of people happy
Obliterating war with no casualties on your side is heavily celebrated
You just started war with Iran, bombed them out, and claim "war over", how does that fit into K's worldview

>>211981463
>>211984965
You well know what he means, you niggers
You could easily infiltrate lots of spaces more effectively being a human spy rather than a fly or a dildo

>>211984650
I was going to say it wasn't wwf by the time the books ended, but holy shit 54 books from 1996 to 2001. the last book came out before 9/11

>>211985288
>>211983630
eat shit, retard. we both know your dad molested you

i know /tv/ will hate me, but i say go all in on the stupid 90s shit
teenagers with bleach blonde hair, intentionally 'video-looking' morph effects, that sort of thing

don't do some stupid shit like 'the Animorphs books exist in the setting', just write it as as a 90s period piece: teenagers get superpowers, time to fight some fuckin aliens with mah Game Boy dudezzz

>>211978603 (OP)
It's beyond the skill of Indian CGI.

>>211984650
>>211984700
based

>>211984700
That this came out before 9/11 is always what makes it hit hardest.

>>211985208
You think that's over? You think it will ever be over? They will keep being attacked completely unprovoked
>>211985457
>>211985867
It being from like July of 2001 it is why it is so good

>>211985457
>54 books from 1996 to 2001
That's about 5-6 weeks per book. Did she have an army of ghostwriters or something?

>>211978603 (OP)
It'd need a massive budget to not look like shit.

>>211980139
Yeah that sounds cringe as fuck.

>>211984650
>>211984700
The writer is just some arrested development edgelord. It’s a book for 8 year olds, just give them what they want. Let them be kids.

>>211981495
“No!”

>>211979154
basically my ex

EYOOOOOOOO

>>211981463
Tobias was able to go back in time thanks to a benevolent cosmic being and aquire DNA from his past self, so no he wasn't turning into other people, he was turning into his younger human self.

a fucking spinoff prequel mogged the whole series

>>211992019
we call that deus-ex-machina, here on my town

>>211993206
>Presenting mexican andalite queer scum:
>El fag 'o

>>211984411
>she gets cut in half, both sides regenerate and demorph
fuck i remember that
some of the single book storylines were wild as hell

>>211983613
yeah she was easily the weakest link

As a spanish speaker, I sadly never follow up on books past 23-25 when I was a kid, simply because they were just not translated anymore
I heard they used a lot of ghost writers and sometimes the books were even more wacky past the 30 mark, is that true?
I can read english just fine now, can I get into it again, or is it dated as fuck?
I remember I cringed at the start when they were talking about Mortal Kombat and some lines were really "how you do fellow kids", but I liked the series

>>211988154
After a while probably but she was also just severely autistic

>>211993998
Read the "chronicles" offshoots and the last two books

>>211993998
I reread them all like 15 years ago. They werent so bad.

>The following books in the series were ghostwritten:

The Ellimist Chronicles – unknown
#25: The Extreme – Jeffrey Zeuhlke
#27: The Exposed – Laura Battyanyi-Weiss (Due to an editorial oversight, Battyanyi-Weiss was uncredited for this book.)
#28: The Experiment – Amy Garvey
#29: The Sickness – Melinda Metz
#30: The Reunion – Elise Donner
#31: The Conspiracy – Laura Battyanyi-Weiss
#33: The Illusion – Ellen Geroux
#34: The Prophecy – Melinda Metz
#35: The Proposal – Jeffrey Zeuhlke
#36: The Mutation – Erica Bobone
#37: The Weakness – Elise Smith
#38: The Arrival – Kimberly Morris
#39: The Hidden – Laura Battyanyi-Weiss
#40: The Other – Gina Gascone
#41: The Familiar – Ellen Geroux
#42: The Journey – Emily Costello
#43: The Test – Ellen Geroux
#44: The Unexpected – Lisa Harkrader
#45: The Revelation – Ellen Geroux
#46: The Deception – Elise Donner
#47: The Resistance – Ellen Geroux
#48: The Return – Kimberly Morris (Due to an editorial oversight, Lisa Harkrader was mistakenly credited for this book.)
#49: The Diversion – Lisa Harkrader
#50: The Ultimate – Kimberly Morris
#51: The Absolute – Lisa Harkrader
#52: The Sacrifice – Kimberly Morris
Alternamorphs #1 – Tonya Alicia Martin (Applegate's series editor)
Alternamorphs #2 – Emily Costello

>>211994944
holy fucking shit this spanish publishers were onto something when they decided to stop at 20 something
daaaamn

>>211992019
That's fucking retarded. I thought they just gave him another chance at the morphin power, and he already had the DNA "stored".

>>211993206
What was the story arc focusing on the Android homeworld?
It's been like 18 years since i last read them.

>>211978603 (OP)
being able to turn into an animal is so stupid. great way to get killed very quickly by the predator specifically adapted to eat your ass.

I loved these books as a kid and watched the TV series, but I read a lot of the books out of order just because siblings or other copies at the library weren't available, but I just wanted to experience the story even disjointed and out of order. I want to read the entire series again

>>211981495
Animorphs is based soft disclosure tho.

>>211988154
>Many of the novels from the #25-#52 range were written by ghostwriters. Typically, K. A. Applegate would write a detailed outline for each book, and a ghostwriter, usually one of Applegate's former editors or writing protégés, would spend a month or two writing the actual novel. After this, Applegate, and later her series editor, Tonya Alicia Martin, would edit the book to make it fit in with the series' tight continuity. Ghostwriters are credited for their help in the book's dedication page: "The author would like to thank [ghostwriter name] for his/her help in preparing this manuscript".

>The only books in this range fully written by Applegate herself after #26: The Attack, #32: The Separation, #53: The Answer, #54: The Beginning and all of the Megamorphs and Chronicles books.
it's crazy as fuck she even wrote half of them herself

Its been a looong time since I read the books.
The moment that always stands out in my memory is when they do the
>maybe our group will pick up this new member
Trope (whatever the fuck it is called fuck tvtropes)
But instead of him either joining or becoming a recurring small villain like 99% of chikdrens media, they fucking kill him for being a tard. Very based.
The series occupies a rare niche as a truly dark story for kids which makes it hard to market.

Considering there is zero chance the """director""" wont change everything to push their own personal narrative throughout, I am fine with it remaining a book series.

>>211994944
>>211996813
I heard one of them had a complete mindblasting twist, that's the one I want to read

>>211997660
Yeah it was based and subverted a lot of tropes

>main villain has no epic final battle with the heroes, instead, after a decisive military defeat he becomes completely demoralized and surrenders to them

>>211980136
>humanmorphs
Realistically, Jake and Marco would bully Tobias into morphing into hot bitches every night.

>>211997894
haha imagine getting Rachel's dna haha
And you like haha turn into her in your house, just to check it ok haha, and you like undress just see haha
And you like, stand in the mirror and see yourself as Rachel haha just to check, but then your dad comes into your room haha, that would be funny haha peak comedy
And then like, it's a girl's brain haha so it's not like it's you, and the girl's brain turns on like haha you say "Get in, and close the door..."
And haha like they usually do, they let the "other" take control haha and you let the Rachel body take control haha just to see what she would do haha, and then she unzips YOUR DAD'S PANTS hahah and start fondling on his dick, that would be hi-la-rious haha

>>211978603 (OP)
The truth is that only weird kids read the books. The covers were cool and everyone probably read one or two, but between the school library and the local library they didn't have all of them, so nobody really understood, liked, or read the whole plot.

>>211998472

Correct, that's why this is now a Goosebumps thread

>>211998472
Only had the David trilogy, which I guess is pretty solid and was at least in order.

>>211988348
>The writer is just some arrested development edgelord.

Nah, she didn't go completely off the deep end until after Animorphs with Remnants.

>>211978603 (OP)
I'd like to see her starfish, if you catch my drift

>>211993998
yeah, she only wrote like 4 books after 24

>>211996572
what?
>>211997660
they writer and her husband already said they don't like the producers for the film and have "creative differences"

>>211998712
I read these all the time

Why did Hollywood stop using Elastic Reality? Those effects were so kino.

>>211998712
There was one of these that ended with a kid running off to some tropical resort with a hardened private eye or something. I can’t remember anything else, but I remember that.

>>211998472
It was about a bunch of slug aliens taking over people's bodies or some shit? And these special high school kids that got blessed by some "good" alien species can now transform into any animal they've physically touched?? And this is somehow used to fight the slugs that are piloting human bodies as meat-gundams?

>>211999247
it's better used in gacha games to simulate animation now
They call it "2.5D"

>>211999460
yes

>>212000268
never heard of that. Are you sure you're not thinking elastimpact? That's what showed up when I searched it.

>>211993206
I remember my grandmother reading this to me as a bedtime story and getting into it

>>211978603 (OP)
Don't you unleash that evil. The tv show had 90s soul, any kind of modern version would be raped to hell and back

>>211978603 (OP)

>>212001643
Have the fixed version, anon.

>>211988252
looking like shit (i.e. the book covers) would be totally the way to go

>>211997715
the yeerk leader infested marco's mom, like since before the animorphs formed.
all the kids develop severe ptsd over the course of the series.
there is a full scale invasion.
rachel dies kamikazeing a spaceship to win because her ptsd made her full berserk.
the yeerk-infested centipede aliens just want to die because the yeerks promised to end their eternal hunger but didn't and now they're mind slaves and eternally starving.
the yeerk-infested blade aliens just want to die because they're naturally vegetarian hippies.
there's a good ancient alien android on earth that could mow down the yeerk empire in a day but doesn't want to because his memory is formatted in a way that would cause him to live the carnage he caused in real time for the rest of his operation.
a mean kid gets the animorph power and they have to trap him on a deserted island as a rat or some shit.
the entire yeerk-andalite-human war is simply a game between two near-omnipotent beings who got tired of blowing up galaxies to fight each other, the animorphs become aware of this and can do nothing but keep fighting gruesome battles.

>>211980136
In the book they had some x-ray thing that scanned you for a brain slug when you entered enemy ships and bases.

>>211980136
>>212003054
Plus, the humans didn't have a reliable way to identify who was brain slugged and who wasn't.
You can't reasonably disguise yourself as someone if that someone might be a covert brain slug. Already having the intel, logistics, and Film Actors Guild skills to pull off a disguise of a disguise negates the reason for doing so.