. has optioned a Thundercats script by new screenwriter Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 1980s animated series and toy line into a live action feature.
Variety says Warner-based Paula Weinstein will produce through her Spring Creek Productions, along with Dick Robertson and Lew Korman.
Thundercats revolves around a group of humanoid cats (with feline names like Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro and Cheetara) who must flee their planet of Thundera after it’s destroyed. Once crash-landing on another planet, Third Earth, they must thwart Mumm-Ra, an evil sorcerer, bent on killing them off.
Sopocy has written the script as an origin story expanding on the major heroes and villains from the animated series, with the plot focusing on Lion-O coming of age as the leader of the Thundercats.
Warner Bros. recently teamed with Joel Silver to produce a live-action He-Man movie, based on the toy and cartoon franchise, as well as a feature based on the DC comic book Teen Titans
Mum-Ra is not pleased.
I usually don’t mind hollywood pulling this card if the end result is entertaining or, at best “good”. He-Man I can understand cuz he kicks ass and that b-movie with Dolph Lundgren never did it justice. But Thundercats? WTF?! Has that annoying furry fetish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh7EDdcQqdw) become that established in the mainstream audience? When will it STOP?!
It will be better than Transformers.
Um the He-Man movie also “starred” Courtney Cox and that fat bitch Kirstie Alley…can you say CLASSIC????
i swear to god if they fuck this up someones getting hurt.
Shit….why can’t they just keep these films animated?
Why don’t they recreate a cartoon from the 80s that BLOWS, like a live-action GI-Joe movie. That would be topical. All the jingoistic retarded pro-Bush motherfuckers could wave their fucking flags and get bent on that flick. Cobra Commander could wear a turban and Destro could have a big fucked up black beard. It would suck just as much as that stupid cartoon did, and no one gets pissed about it. No one dies…GI Joe saves the day from the Cobra camel-jockeys…everyone’s happy. Just like the old days.
I wanna see a Fuckercats movie