Thundercats headed to the big screen!

[t0xin_ven0m]

Warner Bros. has optioned a Thundercats script by new screenwriter Paul Sopocy to turn the popular 1980s animated series and toy line into a live action feature.

Variety says Warner-based Paula Weinstein will produce through her Spring Creek Productions, along with d**k Robertson and Lew Korman.

Thundercats 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.

Warner Bros. recently teamed 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.

[comicfreak]

wow they r just putting everything on the big screen. i haven't been much of a thundercats fan but i heard they were good if ur an 80s person. i normally like those kind of cartoons so i think i may be seeing the movie.

[Carnage]

I can't wait!! Thundercats on the big screen!! I hope they do the cartoon justice. And I hope they don't make it a musical, one musical about people that look like cats is enough.

[t0xin_ven0m]

I liked the cartoon, I thought it was pretty decent.

[Carnage]

One of my favs even though I barely got to see it because it was re-runs by the time I started watching cartoons. Same goes for He-man and Speed Racer.