Applegate was involved, along with her husband and frequent co-author Michael Grant, but soon after the announcement, Applegate and Grant announced their departure from the project. That movie has had a somewhat tortured journey since that announcement originally, K.A. I’m not sure what the Animorphs fandom did for two decades after that (other than get shoutouts on nostalgic roundup lists written by and for millennials), but I do know that in 2020, Scholastic announced that an Animorphs movie was in the works. The original Animorphs novels, published from 1996 to 2001, also had a contemporary television adaptation on Nickelodeon that aired from 1998 to 2000. Applegate about a group of teenagers who fight an alien invasion by transforming into various animals (a superpower given to them by a friendly, non-invading alien) has been popping up all over social media lately, most notably in a viral Twitter thread last week detailing “the wildest thing that happens in every Animorphs book.” Maybe there’s something in the air - but whatever it is, I’m on board, because I just started rereading the series, and I’ve found that it’s easier than ever to do just that. Has anybody else noticed that Animorphs is everywhere these days? The ’90s sci-fi young adult books by K.A.
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