Artemis Fowl Animated TV Show Greenlit With Eoin Colfer as Executive Producer

Artemis Fowl is coming back to TV screens in the form of an animated show on Disney Channel and Disney+. Author Eoin Colfer announced that Disney had greenlit another series project based on his family fantasy novels at the 25 Years of Artemis Fowl panel at New York Comic Con 2026. He’ll remain involved in the animated show as an executive producer, too, with Disney promising that he’ll bring "his creative vision to dig deeper into the characters and lore of the beloved book series that is celebrating its 25th anniversary of the first book this year." Joining Colfer in the executive producing category is Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’s Ben Juwono, as well as DuckTales’ Colleen Evanson. In a statement, the Artemis Fowl author said he is "proud and delighted to be part of the formidable team that is putting the Artemis Fowl animation on screen." The animated series has no release date, but when it does eventually arrive, it won’t be the first swing at the property to land on Disney+. In 2020, Disney launched a live-action movie with the same name, though it largely failed to leave a good impression on fans or critics. As recorded by review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the straight-to-streaming film only whipped up a "rotten" 8% from critics and 19% from audiences. The new animated show hopes to succeed where the 2020 project failed.

The action-adventure fantasy series Artemis Fowl follows 13-year-old genius Artemis Fowl as he uncovers an underground world of armed and dangerous — and surprisingly high-tech — fairies as he launches a plan to capture one and steal its magic to heal his dying mom and save his family. The original Artemis Fowl book was published in 2001, with the rest of Colfer’s stories in the universe boasting more than 35 million copies sold across the globe.