
It introduced readers to Redwall Abbey, the Mossflower Wood, and Matthias a novice monk at Redwall Abbey. The original Redwall was published back in 1986. They wrote, “Big news! The creator of Over The Garden Wall is working on a Redwall adaptation for Netflix! I’m already preparing myself for the feast scenes.” Netflix made the announcement via their NxOnNetflix Twitter account. Netflix recently announced they will be adapting Brian Jacques’ Redwall novels with Over The Garden Wall creator Patrick McHale.
Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window). Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window). Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). There are dozens more creatures lining the pages of Jacques’ books. And badger lords and hedgehogs of nobility and… we’ll stop there. He brought enchantment to talking birds, singing frogs, and school-going piglets imagine what he can do with heroic mice and marauding foxes. Given the magic that McHale instilled in Over the Garden Wall, the prospect of his Redwall movie excites. The show catered specifically to the stories in the books Redwall, Mattimeo, and Martin the Warrior Netflix’s deal gives the company rights to the novel series en masse. In 1999, the Canadian animation studio Nelvana Enterprises and France’s Gaumont Animation (née Alphanim) co-produced an animated series that would go on to last three seasons.
Notably, Redwall was adapted to screen once before. Over the following two-and-a-half decades, Jacques went onto pen more than 20 books in the Redwall series such chronicled the ongoings in the Abbey and its surrounding Mossflower Wood, which introduced an even greater ensemble of woodland critters bent on wondrous living. Therein lived an entire world of whimsy and adventure, and no shortage of enterprising rodents running the show. In 1986, Liverpool’s own Jacques introduced a generation of young readers to Redwall Abbey.