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Variety Reports:
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.
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| UWM |
| What's next, a ing MASK or He-man Movie? Garbage Pail Kids? s sake. |
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| bas |
My God.
edit // A MASK movie would be soooo cooool :stongue: |
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| Vlad |
| I grew up watching this show... its sad that they are doing this. :( |
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| idoru |
| Jesus H. Christ, please stop re-hashing old concepts and bastardizing them in the process and start coming up with original concepts that are just as awesome. ing hell, I'm so sick of this. |
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| Vlad |
| PS: Im still gonna go see it. :D |
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| BTG |
| quote: | Originally posted by genscape
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| DOOMBOT |
| This is what happens when the world is about to end. Movies are made from 80's cartoons. It is foretold in all biblical texts. Seriously. |
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| mezzir |
its hilarious that some of these cartoons that are being remade were actually just brilliantly done half-hour advertisements, thundercats included. the show was made for the sole purpose of selling the action figures, and without them the show wouldn't exist
btw he-man's totally next |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by mezzir
btw he-man's totally next |
Who would you cast to play He-Man Mezzir? |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Who would you cast to play He-Man Mezzir? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by mezzir
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I'm assuming there is some kinda joke in there, but I don't know who that is :( |
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