thunder… Thunder… THUNDERCATS!! HO!!
June 6, 2007
First Transformers – now Thundercats! It looks like the 80’s animated action tv shows could be the new wave of awesome blockbuster movies. All we need now is live-action Jetsons, Johnny Quest, Carebears, and Smurfs movies and we’ll be all set!
Studio has optioned a script by tyro scribe Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 1980s animated series and toy line into a live action feature.
Warner-based Paula Weinstein will produce through her Spring Creek Prods. banner, along with Dick Robertson and Lew Korman.
Property 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.
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mmmm…. Cheetara….
