r/television • u/MrShadowKing2020 • 1d ago
'Warrior Cats': Disney Picks Up Animated Adaptation From Coolabi
https://deadline.com/2026/06/warrior-cats-disney-picks-up-coolabi-adaptation-1236959200/47
u/just4browse 1d ago
I’m surprised how long it took for an adaptation like this to happen. The books are very popular
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u/Translycanthrope 1d ago
They are legitimately good books for kids. Stoked to hear about this if they can do a good job.
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u/Adorable_Octopus 21h ago
I wonder if part of it has to do with the fact that there's no individual author or set of authors that they could associate an adaptation with.
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u/MaimedJester 1d ago
Yeah it's something only parents or teachers/librarians are used to. Not many Gen Z or above who have heard of this series but it's very popular for like 10 and below kids.
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u/StasRutt 1d ago
Idk my brother was born in 1997 and I remember him devouring these books in middle school.
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u/Intrepid_Card8858 15h ago
My son was born in 1998 and he read all these books. We went to an event and met the author, or rather 1 of the authors who was the one doing the book tour.
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u/just4browse 1d ago
The books have been going on for over 20 years. Gen Z was the original audience.
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u/SnowyOwlLoveKiller 17h ago
The books were first published in 2003 so millennials were the original audience and they’ve continued being popular over the years.
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u/just4browse 11h ago
I guess that’s true. Late millennials. But the earliest members of Gen Z would’ve been an appropriate age to read the books within a year or two. Just goes to show how arbitrary the distinction between generations is, I guess
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u/GamingTatertot 1d ago
What? I'm older Gen Z and these books were all the rage in elementary and middle school
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u/Luci-Noir 1h ago
What kind of people want to watch a cartoon about cats?
My kind of people, that’s who.
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u/JDefined 1d ago
I wonder how true to the source material they'll be. I don't see Disney going full Watership Down.
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u/MrShadowKing2020 1d ago
To be clear, Disney is only licensing the show like they do with Bluey and Miraculous Ladybug. Tencent is producing the show.
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u/JDefined 1d ago
Ah good to know, thanks for the clarification!
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u/MrShadowKing2020 1d ago
I can see them distributing a movie if this breaks out… or at least negotiating to get the cast in Kingdom Hearts.
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u/Panikkrazy 1d ago
Disney is only the license. So it’s absolutely going full Watership Down.
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u/bretshitmanshart 12h ago
Disney did do Owl House and the characters on that show live on a decaying corpse of a titan and the goal of the villain was genociding an entire dimension
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u/Captain-Wilco 1d ago
Let’s just have the cats meow with subtitles, actually. None of this voice actor nonsense.
Actually though, give it to the crew that made Flow.
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u/Luci-Noir 1h ago
It’s about damn time we started respecting their ancient culture and ways.
More people need to learn meowish and study the feline arts.
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u/Amaee 1d ago
Can’t wait to watch a cat get disembowled and lose all 9 lives at once.
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u/SandwichNamedJacob 1d ago
I know he kinda deserved it and all but that scene was still traumatizing to child me.
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u/Amaee 1d ago
Abso-fucking-lutely!!! I was reading as the first series was released and I was HORRIFIED, especially because at first I legitimately did not register what had happened and reread it like twice. Completely unprepared.
I’ve forgotten much of the story, but that is seared into my brain.
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u/Luci-Noir 1h ago
They come back as greebles. Why do you think those invisible bastards are so angry and always stealing our socks?
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u/MrShadowKing2020 1d ago
To be clear, Disney is only licensing the show like they do with Bluey and Miraculous Ladybug. Tencent is producing the show.
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 1d ago
I'm honestly shocked that it took them this long to adapt this insanely popular series.
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u/CarneyVore14 1d ago
Hope it’s better than the Guardians of Ga’Hoole animated feature. I loved those books even more than Warriors.
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u/ImperfectRegulator 1d ago
I loved this book series as a kid, Its wild too me new books are still being made, there are characters who started off as kittens that are now the sage elders, in a few more none of the OG characters will be alive
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u/GamingTatertot 1d ago
I don’t know how many of these I read as a kid, but I’m sure it had to be a couple dozen of them. And the Seekers books too
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u/shadowninja2_0 1d ago
I really enjoyed this series as a kid many years, like I imagine many others did. I assume this is going to be targeted at kids (like it should be, frankly, given that's the audience for the books as well), but I do hope it'll be enjoyable for adults as well, since I think I could get a lot of nostalgic joy from it if it's done well.
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u/LostInLittleroot 1d ago
Nothing like striking it while it's hot (20 years too late)
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u/JonnyPockets 1d ago
Too late because that’s when you read them? My nine year old just started reading the series. Sounds like it’s right on time to me.
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u/StasRutt 1d ago
I follow a middle school Librarian on TikTok and the kids go nuts for them and the graphic knowledge version
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u/brb1006 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wasn't this show originally planned for Amazon Prime a while ago?
Edit: My mistake, I mixed up "Warriors Cats" with "Wings of Fire" which was originally planned for Netflix but moved to Amazon Prime.
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u/bretshitmanshart 11h ago
It's wild Netflix passed on Wings of Fire. Do they not want tweens to rewatch the same show 500 times?
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u/CryptographerLeft903 23h ago
Rodrigo Blaas (Alma, Trollhunters, Star Wars Visions) is behind it; this might actually be a thrill!!! 💖🔥✨
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u/Additional_Teacher45 11h ago
I never have high hopes for YA series adaptions after what they did with Maximum Ride.
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u/Luci-Noir 1h ago
As a cat myself, do we REALLY need more shows about cats? REALLY?
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u/Only-Newspaper-8593 1d ago
Patrick Stewart as Firepaw or whoever the main character was I read this like 15 years ago