Thundercats the Movie??

[anythinggoes]

http://www.brutesquad.com/Movies/Thundercats/index_noframe.htm

Is this a spoof page or what

[Jagged Little Pill]

I JUST heard this on the radio..although radio isnt a good source.

[CheapJon]

sounds too cool to be true

[25]

That is a spoof page.

But entirely separate and in no way related to that page is the news that WB has optioned a script based on Thundercats.

[crow316]

Man, Thundercats was pretty much my favorite 80s cartoon.  But I just dont think this would work live action.  CG like the new TMNT would be cool, but seeing someone like Ben Affleck dressed up like Lion-O would be wierd.

[The Chad Cometh]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117966320.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Warner purrs for Thundercats
'80s animated series heading to bigscreen
By MARC GRASER


It's Thundercats, ho! at Warner Bros.
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.

Project was brought to Warner by Palek Patel, VP at Spring Creek. Dan Lin is overseeing the pic for Warners.

The Thundercats franchise began in 1983 and spawned several animated series, with the most recent airing on Cartoon Network, a toy line produced by LJN and comicbooks published by Marvel and DC imprints. Warner Bros. has owned the rights to the animated series since acquiring Telepictures Corp. in 1989.

Studio's recently been bitten by the nostalgia bug, pacting 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 comicbook "Teen Titans," a junior Justice League.

Weinstein most recently produced Warners' "Blood Diamond," and with HBO Films is prepping "Recount," based on the 2000 presidential election, with Sydney Pollack set to direct.

"Thundercats" is Sopocy's first studio script sale as a screenwriter. He's currently senior writer, print advertising, at Fox Broadcasting Co., and has previously penned short films including "Staring at the Sun," which was screened at the Sundance film fest in 2005.

[metallex78]

What is it with Hollywood these days, can't they think up new original ideas without referring to tarnishing old 80's ideas...?

[F*ck Fear]

I fucking love that show. A movie would ruin the legacy I think.

[AxlsMainMan]

What is it with Hollywood these days, can't they think up new original ideas without referring to tarnishing old 80's ideas...?

It all comes down to creativity.

[Izzy]

I loved Thundercats for its utter absurdity

The Thundercats come to this new world and decide that OBVIOUSLY their way is better and go about sorting out the locals

It was Mum-Ra's planet the bastards!!

Bucky O'Hare was a similiar tale of adorable insanity

We CLEARLY see the Toads run a prosperous (though ultra-commerical) empire full of happy and wealthy people in numerous episodes - what are our heros fighting against?

Ah the '80 and early '90's, a glorious era of nonsense....

[GnFnR87]

I loved Thundercats for its utter absurdity

The Thundercats come to this new world and decide that OBVIOUSLY their way is better and go about sorting out the locals

It was Mum-Ra's planet the bastards!!

Bucky O'Hare was a similiar tale of adorable insanity

We CLEARLY see the Toads run a prosperous (though ultra-commerical) empire full of happy and wealthy people in numerous episodes - what are our heros fighting against?

Ah the '80 and early '90's, a glorious era of nonsense....

dude. its a fucking kids cartoon/tv show. enough said.

i used to watch it all the time when i was a kid, it was awesome, probably one of my favorite shows when i was younger.

[tim_m]

I watched it all the time loved it and never missed it. I'm skeptical of how a movie would turn out though.

[Izzy]

dude. its a fucking kids cartoon/tv show. enough said.

really?

I am glad your here to tell me such things

[freedom78]

dude. its a fucking kids cartoon/tv show. enough said.

really?

I am glad your here to tell me such things

Where the Hell is WAT-EVER to tell us how this is propaganda, set up by the US government, to justify a future policy of intervention, nation-building, and the spread of democracy through violence?

[GnFnR87]

dude. its a fucking kids cartoon/tv show. enough said.

really?

I am glad your here to tell me such things

well then why are u judging it like it was meant to be taken seriuosly when it clearly was not. lol.

anyway a thundercats movie should be interesting, i was thinking about this show the other day and realized how much i liked it. i was obsessed with it. it would be weird live-action though, i cant really picture it.

[freedom78]

dude. its a fucking kids cartoon/tv show. enough said.

really?

I am glad your here to tell me such things

well then why are u judging it like it was meant to be taken seriuosly when it clearly was not. lol.

anyway a thundercats movie should be interesting, i was thinking about this show the other day and realized how much i liked it. i was obsessed with it. it would be weird live-action though, i cant really picture it.

In a world where Hamas puts on a "kids show" using a Mickey Mouse rip off to talk about shedding the blood of the infidels, I think it's safe to take things seriously. 

[Izzy]

well then why are u judging it like it was meant to be taken seriuosly when it clearly was not. lol.

Thundercats is full of humerous little bits that may or may not have been deliberate - i assume its okay with you if one simply pays attention when they watch?

I always loved Mumm-Ra, partially because he looked like a chimp in bandages - but mainly because, despite being effectively all powerful, he just could never catch a break - you just had to feel sorry for the crazy ol' mummy....

[GnFnR87]

well then why are u judging it like it was meant to be taken seriuosly when it clearly was not. lol.

Thundercats is full of humerous little bits that may or may not have been deliberate - i assume its okay with you if one simply pays attention when they watch?

I always loved Mumm-Ra, partially because he looked like a chimp in bandages - but mainly because, despite being effectively all powerful, he just could never catch a break - you just had to feel sorry for the crazy ol' mummy....

LOL sorry,? i havent seen Thundercats in a REALLY long time, at least a decade so i'm sure if i watched it now i'd pick up on all that humurous stuff too.?

so i apologize for "jumping" on u.

[Izzy]

well then why are u judging it like it was meant to be taken seriuosly when it clearly was not. lol.

Thundercats is full of humerous little bits that may or may not have been deliberate - i assume its okay with you if one simply pays attention when they watch?

I always loved Mumm-Ra, partially because he looked like a chimp in bandages - but mainly because, despite being effectively all powerful, he just could never catch a break - you just had to feel sorry for the crazy ol' mummy....

LOL sorry,? i havent seen Thundercats in a REALLY long time, at least a decade so i'm sure if i watched it now i'd pick up on all that humurous stuff too.?

so i apologize for "jumping" on u.

...Thundercats hasnt dated well, but is still infintly enjoyable for all the double entendres and plain nonsense it contains, stuff u just never noticed as a child

ya know, i always wanted to know how they built their base.....and why Mumm-Ra let them build it...

....after all sword of Omens or not - the Thundercats were a mere handful against limitless goblins and orcs and whatnot

[freedom78]

...Thundercats hasnt dated well, but is still infintly enjoyable for all the double entendres and plain nonsense it contains, stuff u just never noticed as a child

ya know, i always wanted to know how they built their base.....and why Mumm-Ra let them build it...

a. ) I haven't seen it for a long time...what "adult" things are there that I might not have noticed as a child?

b. ) Perhaps they're squatters?