Apr 13 2009 Rob Schneider as Snarf is Too Frighteningly Possible
Thanks to Daniel for passing along this typically hilarious and incisive story from The Onion: Michael Bay Signs $50M Deal To Fuck Up 'Thundercats'. "No filmmaker working today has Bay's ability to somehow direct his actors to be both emotionless and melodramatic at once." So true.
Dec 22 2008 'Thundercats' Trailer Made From Old Clips and Computers
I saw this all over the place today, so it's about time I post it behind everyone else. Here's an insanely elaborate fan-made trailer for a Thundercats movie that casts Brad Pitt, Vin Diesel, Hugh Jackman, girl from Farscape, Spy Kids, and CGI Garfield in the lead roles:
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Jul 29 2008 Tyrese Gibson a Thundercat? That Calls for a Tribute Video
Tyrese Gibson has revealed that he's in talks to join ThunderCats, a CGI movie based on your lunchbox from 1987. From ComingSoon:
Tyrese said that he's been very involved in the attempt to bring the classic '80s cartoon series to the big screen and seemed to hint that a deal is very nearly complete. We asked him what character he'd be playing and he just smiled and said that there's a number of options on the table.
It's not racist to say he'll probably be playing Panthro, right? Because he'd definitely be Panthro, the ThunderCat who would be black if he didn't have blue skin instead.
And for all you real Thundercats fans: below the cut, see a Panthro tribute video I made that uses music, fan art, and heart transitions to explores his relationship with a female cat-human hybrid.
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Oct 10 2007 'Thundercats' Finds Director (AKA 'Top Thundercat')
With Variety announcing that Jerry O'Flaherty, someone you have no right to have ever heard of, is directing the Thundercats feature, I've done my best to interpret what they've reported in their typical, hard-to-understand Hollywood-speak into understandable language.
Warner Bros. has tapped its top Thundercat.
I have no idea. Possibly sexual.
The project marks the first feature directing gig for O'Flaherty, who served as an art director on such bestselling games as "Gears of War" and "Unreal Tournament 3" and the "Command and Conquer" series.
O'Flaherty's qualifications include overseeing the drawing of guys holding guns.
O'Flaherty had been looking to make the leap into movies and was considering several projects, even live action.
O'Flaherty desperately wants to stop overseeing the drawing of guys holding guns, and even thought of getting into porn.
But the "Thundercats" story appealed to him
O'Flaherty said anything he had to to get this job, or is a juvenile imbecile.
The property revolves around a group of humanoid cats who must flee the planet of Thundera, which is destroyed. Once crash-landing on another planet, Third Earth, they must thwart Mumm-Ra, an evil sorcerer bent on killing them off.
Thundercats was created for idiot children of the '80s, featuring a nonsensical rivalry between feline and mummy. It doesn't matter who directs this, they're staring dead into the glowing feline eyes of failure.
O'Flaherty to direct 'Thundercats' [Variety]
