Famend animated showrunner A.C. Bradley (What..if?, Ms. Marvel) and Emmy award-winning director Rodrigo Blaas (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) are on board for the upcoming animated TV collection Warrior Cats, an adaptation of the best-selling kids’s fantasy novels.
Publishers Coolabi Group and Chinese language on-line large Tencent Video have greenlit the collection, tailored from Erin Hunter’s novels about battling clans of feral cats, which have bought greater than 90 million copies worldwide. The collection would be the first licensed animated adaptation of Warrior Cats and can be based mostly on the primary collection of books: Warrior Cats: The Prophecies Start.
An earlier Warrior Cats characteristic movie undertaking, arrange with China’s Alibaba Photos as a mixture of live-action and CGI, and with Harry Potter producer David Heyman initially attached, has been deserted.
The collection has begun manufacturing, in collaboration with Blaas’ Madrid-based El Guiri Studios, and is about to debut in 2028 on Tencent Video’s platforms throughout China and South East Asia.
“We’re excited to partner with Coolabi on Warrior Cats, a franchise that embodies the future of global storytelling,” mentioned Tina Ma, Co President & COO of Tencent Video in an announcement. “Together we’re bringing the beloved Warrior Cats world to new platforms and markets in a way that feels both familiar and fresh, creating an animated series designed to captivate existing fans and win new ones.”
Warrior Cats is a real world phenomenon. Along with the books, which have been translated into 38 languages, user-generated Warrior Cats content material attracts greater than 50 million views on YouTube and almost 3 billion views on TikTok monthly, accorind to Coolabi. The Warrior Cats recreation on Roblox has been performed greater than 728 million occasions.
The Warrior Cats collection follows a retail tie-in between Coolabi and Bonkers Toys within the U.S. which has seen the rollout of the primary licenced Warrior Cats toys.
“We anticipate a whirlwind year ahead for the brand,” famous Allison Watkins, Director of Client Merchandise and TV Distribution at Coolabi Group.
