Here's the latest in the string of news involving a popular 1980s cartoon being made into a full-length feature film: "ThunderCats" will make it to the big screen as a CGI-animated movie. Variety has details:
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.
[Paul] 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.
Okay, so first there was Transformers. Then news of a G.I. Joe movie, followed by the announcement of a He-Man film. And now "ThunderCats." Don't get me wrong — I loved "ThunderCats" as a kid. But I've said it before and I'll say it again: Where are "Jem and the Holograms"?! Boys weren't the only kids around in the 1980s. If we're going to bring the ThunderCats (which has its own website, crazily enough) to movie theaters, it's positively scandalous to ignore Jem. At the very least give us a little She-Ra (beyond just a bit part in the He-Man movie)!
What do you guys think? Should we fill Hollywood with peanuts until we get a Jem movie?
Jem all the way! SYNERGY!
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