It looks like the toy companies want more of the movie pie that the comic book overlords have been enjoying so much lately. We get some news about an upcoming Thundercats film from the movieweb:
Can you believe it? Unlike Transformers and G.I. Joe, not to mention The Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake , The Thundercats were one of the only 80s toy spin-off cartoons that didn’t get a big screen animated film back in the day. Well, they sure are making up for that now.
Untested screenwriter Paul Sopocy has been hired to pound out the script. He will be using the outline of the cartoon as a jumping off point. The weekday afternoon program revolved around Lion-O and his cat hair-covered buddies. The stories were almost identical to every other cheaply produced animated cartoon show out there at the time. The half-hour was used mainly to sell more toys.
I enjoyed the Thundercats as a youngster. I thought that it was a fun ensemble cast of characters and Mum-Ra The Ever Living is just about as bad ass as you can make a villain. When I see this movie I will be Cheering for Mum-Ra and not for the Thundercats.
It is a little strange that the work of writing this project has been thrown to Paul Sopocy. On IMDB it looks like he has written some projects, but none of them sound familiar to me at all. He has not written anything since 2005, so why does someone call him out of the blue to do Thundercats? We will have to chase down more news as time goes by to see if this news is fact or fiction.
