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A film adaptation based on the first novel was in the process of development by Disney from 2016
Disney’s Artemis Fowl film was publicly announced years earlier than 2016. Trade reporting shows Disney and The Weinstein Company announced the adaptation in July 2013.
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This date is too late. Reliable contemporaneous reporting says Walt Disney Studios and The Weinstein Company announced the Artemis Fowl film adaptation in July 2013, with Michael Goldenberg attached to adapt the first two books. Disney’s own news site then reported in March 2018 that the film had already begun principal photography. So the project was demonstrably in development well before 2016.
In short: saying Disney was developing it "from 2016" is incorrect because the project was publicly announced in 2013.
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- Disney, Weinstein to adapt "Artemis Fowl" book series into film - ANTARA News
July 30, 2013 ... Young adult fantasy book series "Artemis Fowl" ... will be adapted into a feature film, Walt Disney Studios and the Weinstein Company said on Monday.
- Artemis Fowl Has Officially Begun Production | Disney News
March 12, 2018 ... production has started for Artemis Fowl ... The film adaptation of Eoin Colfer's best-selling series began principal photography.
In 2025, it was announced that a musical adaptation of the novels would premiere in London, with Colfer writing the libretto and Liam Bates composing the music.
The 2025 announcement was for a private workshop and a musical in development, not a London premiere. Official materials also credit Colfer with the book and Colfer plus Bates with the lyrics.
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The available 2025 announcement does not say the musical would premiere in London. Playbill reported that a private workshop of Artemis Fowl The Musical was being held on March 14, 2025, and described the show as "in development."
The official musical website likewise presents the project without any announced London premiere date or venue. It credits the creative team as "Book by Eoin Colfer," "Music by Liam Bates," and "Lyrics by Eoin Colfer & Liam Bates." That also means the page's wording about Colfer alone writing the "libretto" is misleading, because official credits show Bates is a co-lyricist.
So the article overstates the 2025 news: what was announced was a workshop/development stage, not a confirmed London premiere.
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- Artemis Fowl Musical in Development | Playbill
March 14, 2025 ... A private workshop of Artemis Fowl The Musical ... is being held March 14 ... Colfer said ... for the musical to be in development with such a brilliant team.
- Artemis Fowl The Musical
Book by Eoin Colfer ... Music by Liam Bates ... Lyrics by Eoin Colfer & Liam Bates ... Based on the Walt Disney film and Eoin Colfer novel