![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There has never been a Redwall feature film, although an animated series aired in Canada for three seasons starting in 1999. The new projects come thanks to a rights deal between Netflix and Penguin Random House Children, making this the first time the rights to all adaptations have been held in the same place. The film would presumably draw inspiration from the eponymous first book in the franchise, while the event series would follow the beloved character Martin the Warrior. The world’s largest streamer announced Wednesday that it would begin adapting the long Redwall (22 books) into animated feature films and an event TV series, with at least one film and a series to begin with. And now, you can add “a Netflix feature film” to those accolades. Chronicling an endless series of heroic wars between valorous mice and other small woodland animals and the hordes of evil vermin led by rats, weasels and badgers, the series could be seen as something like a more wholesome and goodhearted Game of Thrones, filled with battles, feasting and romance. The Redwall series of YA fantasy novels from author Brian Jacques have become touchstones of the genre, published for 25 years between 19. ![]()
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