Zombies: The Re-Animated Series

Zombies: The Re-Animated Series is an animated musical television series based on the Disney franchise Zombies. It is a collaboration between American studio Disney Television Animation and Canadian studio Atomic Cartoons, alongside vanity card Bloor Street Productions.

Zombies: The Re-Animated Series premiered on June 28, 2024, on Disney Channel, followed by its Disney+ premiere the next day.

Plot
Following graduation day at Seabrook High School, A-Spen does a time warp that enables everyone to re-do senior year together as they engage in various misadventures in Seabrook.

Main characters

 * Addison Wells (voiced by Meg Donnelly) - The head cheerleader, who is a human/alien hybrid.
 * Zed Necrodopolous (voiced by Milo Manheim) - A zombie and star football player who is Addison's boyfriend.
 * Wynter Barkowitz (voiced by Ariel Martin) - An overeager werewolf.
 * Willa Lykensen (voiced by Chandler Kinney) - A werewolf who is the leader of her group.
 * Wyatt Lykensen (voiced by Pearce Joza) - A werewolf who is the brother of Willa and love interest of Eliza.
 * Bree (voiced by Carla Jeffery ) - A human cheerleader who is the best friend of Addison.
 * Bucky Buchanan (voiced by Trevor Tordjman) - The self-absorbed human cousin of Addison and former head cheerleader.
 * Bonzo (voiced by James Godfrey) - A zombie who is a friend of Zed and the love interest of Bree. He can only speak zombie language, which the other characters understand.
 * Eliza (voiced by Kylee Russell) - A genius zombie and friend of Zed, who is dating Wyatt.
 * A-Spen (voiced by Terry Hu) - An alien who enabled the time warp to happen so that everyone could re-do the senior year.

Other characters

 * Principal Lee (voiced by Naomi Snieckus) - The human principal of Seabrook High School.
 * Coach (voiced by Jonathan Langdon) - The unnamed human football coach of Seabrook High School.
 * Dae (voiced by Kahyun Kim ) - A witch who is a new student at Seabrook High School.
 * Bartleby - Dae's armadillo familiar.
 * Zoey Necrodopolous (voiced by Kingston Foster) - A zombie who is the younger sister of Zed.

Development
In 2022, Descendants: Wicked World creator Aliki Theofilopoulos, and Amphibia story editor Jack Ferraiolo were approached by Disney executives to develop an animated series based on Disney Channel's Zombies franchise, which they agreed to do due to the franchise's high school setting providing multiple storytelling opportunities, having liked the Zombie films, and wanting to work together on a project.

On June 15, 2022, during the Annecy Film Festival, Disney Television Animation announced development on animated series based on the Zombies franchise, titled Zombies: The Re-Animated Series, on Disney+. Writers Joseph Raso and David Light were set to return from the original trilogy as executive producers alongside Gary Marsh, Theofilopoulos and Ferraiolo. Theofilopoulos and Ferraiolo also serve as showrunners for the series.

Writing
The producers wanted to use the series' animated format as "[an] opportunity to push ideas conceptually and visually" within the franchise. They also wanyed the show to have a strong focus on its ensemble cast, drawing inspiration from shows such as New Girl and Freaks and Geeks, as well as teen comedies Ferraiolo watched in his youth, wanting to "juxtapose dumb ideas with achieving a goal" much like in the latter. The writers wanted the series to explore issues relatable to teenagers and "blow it out of proportion" while keeping the story grounded in "the emotional truth of being a teenager".

Casting
On August 12, 2022, Meg Donelly and Milo Manheim were confirmed to be reprising their roles as Allison and Zed from the original trilogy. On November 18, 2022, Theofilopoulos confirmed that Carla Jeffery would reprise her role as Bree in the series. Voice recordings for the series had already began by that point. In June 2023, Ariel Martin, Chandler Kinney, Pearce Joza, Trevor Tordjman, Jonathan Langdon, James Godfrey, Kylee Russell, and Terry Hu were confirmed to be reprising their roles in the series. In May 2024, it was announced that Kahyun Kim would be voicing a new character named Dae.

Animation
Animation services will be provided by Atomic Cartoons. Matt Doering will serve as art director for the series. The artists designed the characters so that they could be reminiscent of their appearance in the movies while also fitting an animated format.

Music
The series will feature a musical number per episode, performed by its voice cast. Several songwriters from the films returned to work on the series. Theofilopoulos drew inspiration from her experience in Phineas and Ferb for the show's songs, wanting to combine the humorous tone of the Phineas and Ferb songs with the musical style from the Zombies films. She also drew inspiration from her experience in Descendants: Wicked World.

The song "My Year" from the first film serves as the series' opening theme. The songwriters originally conceived several original songs to be used as the opening theme; the songs were ultimately used as musical numbers within the series.