Thunder Thunder ‘Thundercats’ Big Screen Movie is On
The director behind Godzilla vs. Kong is going to Thundera next.
Nearly 40 years have passed since Lion-O first appeared on our TVs and gathered the ThunderCats with his trademark cry. It’s making its way to the big screen again – this time as a CG/animation hybrid. Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard has been tapped to helm the project with Simon Barrett on to help with the script. They’ll be using the animated series as a jumping off point.
Wingard has been thinking about this for a long time.
ThunderCats is a dream project for me. When I was in high school, I was obsessed with it. You’d think at that point, I was a little too old, that my years of obsession with ThunderCats would be when I was 6 years old. My real obsession with ThunderCats came in high school, the pinnacle of me deciding I wanted to be a filmmaker, and pushing in that direction…I actually spent most of my 10th grade year, I completely blew it. I didn’t pay attention in school, made terrible grades. And the reason? I was writing my ThunderCats screenplay through my entire 10th grade year. And I was hand-writing it. The screenplay itself ended up being 272 pages long. I still have it.
I thought, am I crazy for obsessing over this, thinking it’s something you can just do? As it turns out, when you’re a kid in Alabama with no resources or connections to filmmaking, it is impossible to make a ThunderCats film. But flash forward, 20 years later and here we are.
The director is aiming to take audiences back to the 80s with the show’s fantastical characters, mythology, and saturated colors – just in a new format. It’ll be a beast, but the passion and is definitely there. Also, let’s hope that script has evolved in the last twenty-three years.
