‘Thundcats’ Movie In Development From WB, Godzilla Vs Kong Director

The idea of a Thundercats movie has always been simultaneously exciting and terrifying. On one side, the idea of seeing one of our favorite childhood cartoons come to life is almost too much to pass up. On the other side, we just saw what happens when you make a movie about anthropomorphic cats and it didn’t exactly go well. Still, for what seems like the 5th time in the last decade, there’s now news that the cartoon is in development as a live action film.

According to a new report from Deadline, it has now been revealed that Godzilla vs Kong director, Adam Wingard is currently developing the property over at Warner Bros. according to the report, the original cartoon will only serve as a jumping off point for a new idea that Wingard has been thinking about for many years.

Here’s what Wingard told Deadline in an interview about his current and future projects:

 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’m in a place where Godzilla vs. Kong has gone well with Warner Bros. They love the movie, as we were wrapping it. I heard there was a ThunderCats script out there and it happened to be set up with some of my producers on Death Note. I asked them, I want to rewrite this script with my friend Simon Barrett. This is a huge passion thing for me. Nobody on this planet knows or has thought as much about ThunderCats as I have. They gave me the reins. I saw this as an opportunity to do a new type of fantasy sci-fi spectacle film that people have never seen before. It’s got a rich mythology; the characters are fantastic. The colors. I want to do a ThunderCats film that takes you back to that ‘80s aesthetic. I don’t want to reinvent the way they look; I want them to look like ThunderCats. I don’t want to do it live action, either. I don’t want it to look like Cats, I don’t want those kinds of issues — no disrespect to that director, whom I don’t mean to throw under the bus any more than everyone else has. I want to do a movie you’ve never seen before. A hybrid CGI film that has a hyper real look and somehow bridges the gap between cartoon and CGI. That’s the starting point, and Simon Barrett and I are getting into the script now.