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.
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