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On the morning of February 10th, Netflix casually tweeted an announcement that caused an entire generation’s inner child to levitate out of bed and cry “Eulalia!” with one voice: the streaming platform had acquired the rights to the entirety of Brian Jacques’ beloved Redwall series. Plans were announced for a feature film and an “event series” to start, with no information yet on casting, timeline, or other details.
Jacques’ medieval fantasy adventure series, a proto-cottagecore masterpiece with a colorful cast of anthropomorphic wildlife, was written for the age range we now refer to as middle grade and spanned 22 books, from the 1986 publication of
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To a generation of once-young readers, the name “Redwall Abbey” has come to shoulder quite a weight. Thirty-five years after the publication of Brian Jacques’ original
Redwall novel, the series will find new life on screen, thanks to a new deal with Netflix (as reported by
Deadline). The streaming site will reportedly produce both an animated feature film and likewise animated TV series based on the stories.
The movie has already found its director in Patrick McHale, who made a name for himself with the 2014 miniseries
Over the Garden Wall. (Which, if you haven’t seen, is one of those rare treasures of modern cartooning that feels both old-fashioned, excitingly fresh, and entirely of its own breed.) As for Netflix’s