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.
Even if you don't know the Animorphs books themselves, you probably know their covers by artist David Mattingly which have become memes in their own right. Each cover depicts a human turning into an animal across a series of images showcasing different stages of their transformation (or sometimes, as seen above, aliens turning into people and vice versa).
Animorphs encompasses 54 main series books published from 1996-2001 along with numerous spin-offs and side novels. The series was previously adapted as a live action Nickelodeon show, running for two seasons from 1998-2000.
No projected premiere date for the Animorphs show has been announced. While we wait to learn more, check out our guide to the best new TV shows still to come in 2026.
