Marc Graser of Variety:
...[Warner Bros.] has optioned a script by tyro scribe Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 1980s animated series and toy line into a live action feature.
...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.
...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 comic books 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 comic book "Teen Titans ," a junior Justice League .
"Thundercats" is Sopocy's first studio script sale as a screenwriter... [He] has previously penned short films including "Staring at the Sun," which was screened at the Sundance film fest in 2005.
The original article can be found here
I realize that the studio feels like it has a good thing on its hands here--following its somewhat successful relaunch of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise--earlier this year Not to mention July's BIG debut of Transformers at a rival studio...But Thundercats?! Sounds like nothing more than kitty litter, to me.
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