
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 [1] 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 [1]. Then news of a G.I. Joe [1] movie, followed by the announcement of a He-Man [1] film. And now "ThunderCats." Don't get me wrong — I loved "ThunderCats" as a kid. But I've said it before [1] 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 [2], 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 [2] until we get a Jem movie?
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