EXCLUSIVE: An animated series based on Robert C. O’Brien’s
Rats of NIMH book series is in the works at
Fox as the broadcast network further bolsters its animation drive.
Deadline understands that the network has handed a script commitment to
NIMH, which comes from Fox Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Television. The animated drama, which is searching for a writer, is based on the trilogy of books that began in 1971 with O’Brien’s
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. It was followed by
Rasco and the Rats of NIMH and
R-T, Margaret and the Rays of NIMH, both written by O’Brien’s daughter Jane Leslie Conly.
The series follows Mrs. Frisby, a mouse, who in an effort to save her family goes on a spectacular journey through an unfamiliar and underground world to discover a colony of escaped super-intelligent lab rats who help her on a thrilling adventure to relocate her home before the plows and exterminators arrive.
The project is based on the books, rather than
The Secrets of NIMH animated movie directed by Don Bluth that came out in 1982. It is the latest attempt to reboot the story, with the likes of Neil Burger, Michael Berg and the Russo Brothers previously attached to turn it into a feature film.
Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn told Deadline that Fox would develop the project as an event series.
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