Adam Wingard Will Direct New Live-Action THUNDERCATS Movie!
Mike Sprague
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Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard will direct ThunderCats. The “big-scale feature” is based on Rankin Bass’ animated TV series that ran from 1985-89.
It will be a hybrid of CGI and animation that uses the animated series as a jumping-off point. But Wingard says he’ll take it in a direction he’s been thinking about for years.
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Dan Lin and Roy Lee (who produced Wingard’s Death Note) developed the project with screenwriter David Coggeshall. But now it seems that Wingard will rewrite a script with long-time collaborator Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest, Blair Witch).
The series followed the adventures of the team of heroes, cat-like humanoid aliens. They abandon their dying homeworld and crash land on a planet called Third Earth.
When the Thundercats awaken from their suspended animation, the group’s king and leader, Lion-O, discovers that his suspension capsule has slowed, rather than stopped, his aging, rendering him a child in the body of an adult. The Thundercats’ sudden arrival does not go unnoticed by the planet’s hostile inhabitants, putting them on a collision course with a demonic, mummified sorcerer known as Mumm-Ra.
Tobin Wolf created the series. Rankin-Bass Productions’ Telepictures Corporation originally distributed the show. Telepictures Corporation later merged with Lorimar Productions in 1986. In 1989, Warner Bros. purchased Lorimar-Telepictures and has owned the Thundercats rights to the series from that point on.
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