Thundercats is the latest 80s kids phenomenon being rushed into production. Anyone have this horrible feeling that the only thing the impending SAG strike will accomplish is to be to force hundreds of horrible movies on us for the next few years? I do.
Variety says the Thundercats movie is moving fast, and now they have a director. The computer animated flick will be helmed by Jerry O'Flaherty, who has never directed anything before. Whoops. I guess they forgot to check his resume? Because till now O’Flaherty hasn’t even been working in movies. He’s been an art director on a bunch of high-profile videogames. On second thought maybe this is a great decision, because videogame movies have done so well for Hollywood. Whoops again.
O’Flaherty will begin working on the script with screenwriter Paul Sopocy soon. He promises in his Variety interview to remain faithful to the original television show, but is that really such a good idea? For those of you who weren’t watching cartoons in the 80s or like me, thought Thundercats looked dumb and so avoided them, here’s what the whole Thundercats thing is about: The cartoon was a mix of sci-fi and fantasy elements. It’s about a group of alien man-cats who escape their planet’s destruction and land on a new planet they call Third-Earth. There they fight an evil sourcorer with the help of their short, but memorable catcphrase, “Thundercats Ho!” We should probably consider ourselves lucky that they aren’t attempting this in live action. Just imagine Hugh Jackman in a giant cat costume.
