WB options Thundercats script

Monday, June 11, 2007

Any fan of this cartoon would definately want to see this made into a movie. Thundercats has all the makings of something very cool.

Warner Brothers has optioned a script by new writer Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 1980s animated Thundercats TV series and toy line into a live-action feature film, Variety reported.

Warner-based Paula Weinstein will produce through her Spring Creek Productions banner, along with Dick Robertson and Lew Korman.

The franchise centers on 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. After 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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The big problem is that unless it gets the Spider-man 3 type of treatment with regards to special effects and the overall look, the entire movie could end up being completely lame.

Take for example what I like to refer to as Exibit A. It ’s not Lion-O…just Lame-O.