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Who Will Herd The THUNDERCATS??
Merrick here...
Jerry O'Flaherty. He's a video game dude. He was the art director on GEARS OF WAR and UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3, among his many credits.
The origin story expands 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.
...says THIS ARTICLE.
To my knowledge, there's been no word on the nature of the CGI that'll be used here. Perhaps the same mocap technology deployed on POLAR EXPRESS and BEOWULF? Something entirely different?
For a while, indications were this was a live action project. CGI makes a lot more sense...and will almost certainly look far less dopey.
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unbelievable
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Just say no-cap to mo-cap.
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Isn't it time for a feature length Gargamel movie?
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why?
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Only if she's licking herself in the nude to get clean.
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Or were they turned into movies also? Next time I'm at my Mensa gathering I'll ask Mila Jonovich.
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Soundtrack by Fall-Out Boy.
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Polar Express and Beowulf are not the future of fantasy. If they don't do this lie-action, then I don't want to see it. Otherwise it'd be a cartoon, no different than the source material.
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before anyone points that out. One day this site will actually have the ability to edit posts.
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Oct 10, 2007 10:36:17 AM CDT
Grease paint and glued on cat wiskers in front of matte painting
by stereotypical evil archer
That's the only way to go, CATS style.
I 2nd the Scarlett Jojanssen.
The cheerleader from Heroes as Wily-Kit.
And no male actors whatsoever. -
I'm going to a smokey bar and gettin' trashed tonight.
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what's next for eighties cartoons? the smurfs? the snorks? turbo teen?
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Why Lion-o grew up while in suspended animation but the two wiley-kits didn't, Ill be happy. Even as a kid that bugged me.
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Slam this mother for being "untrue" to the original cartoon, which was shit to my young eyes anyway. Like TF, you are nostalgic about these shows. If you can actually sit down, watch full episodes, and your a grown person, you have a lot to learn about how precious the time we spend on Earth is . Fuck this. Fuck all remakes, reboots, reshoots....
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...OR ERIC BALFOUR, IF YA DON'T WANNA PULL A KEATON. LAURENCE FISHBURNE AS PANTHRO UMA THURMAN AS CHEETARA NEAL MCDONOUGH AS TIGRA JACK BLACK AS SNARF JOHN GLOVER AS JAGA TERRY O'QUINN AS LYNXO GILFRED GOTTFRIED & THE BOOGEYMAN (WWE) AS MUMM-RA OLIVER PLATT AS SLYTHE J.K.SIMMONS AS VULTUREMAN WILLEM DAFOE AS JACKALMAN RON PERLMAN AS MONKIAN SHERMDAWG AS FIRST PERSON IN LINE.
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I've got a bad feeling about this.
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dgdfgdfgf
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I have for years thought that if they make a Thundercats live action movie, that George Lowe who voiced Space Ghost on Coast to Coast should be Lion-O. If you have seen him before, you may agree that he would look the part fine, but his voice could not possibly be more perfect, not possibly in my oppinion. Also I have also always felt that Morgan Freeman would make a good Panthro, but for live action he may now be too old, but who knows. Panthro always seemed like an old guy to me on the cartoon anyway, even though the established fact was that Tygra was the oldest Thundercat. Anyway George Lowe and Morgan Freeman would for sure be absolutely perfect if they go the Zemeckis performance capture way, which would be ok I guess- but I would prefer live action right now. Anyway, does anyone agree with me on these two actors?
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who thinks a Dino Riders movie would be much better than Thudercats???
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with Final Fantasy style CG, not mo-cap.
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that would be awesome.
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THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS!!! SOCIALLY ACTIVE WOMAN!!!!
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...And he over 50. This can be a great live-action movie.
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...and everything will be fine.
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He was totally bumpin' fuzzies with Cheetara.
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heh, that's some great fan-casting. You've been thinking about this for a long time, eh Sherm?
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Oct 10, 2007 11:36:20 AM CDT
I can't believe Jett isn't pretending to have "inside info" on t
by finky089
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With Jack Black and Shia? I heard Ratners attached, classic buddy movie...
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...let it be Live-Action and not Mo-Cap.
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...Betamax???
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Snarf was gay though.. right?
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Sleeping like this will add ten years to your life. I learned it from Keith Richards when I toured with the Stones. This may be the reason why Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons.
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Mo-Cap would certainly lend more room for incorporating that anime look into the film, huh?
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You know it'll work...
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it ain't that great guys, and Bewolf looks like shit.
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Even though Silverhawks was basically Thundercats with metal birdpeople in space.
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so is it going to be 2 hours of him spraying all over evrything?
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I don't care how much you loved Thundercats as a kid, but this just simply can not be done in ANY other format besides straight up old school animation without it looking completely ridiculous. Let's be completely honest, full grown human-cat hybrids are already silly enough, but done with live action or even motion captured and it's gonna look asinine.
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I'd buy that for a doller!!
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Hooray for "Wing Commander: The Movie: Part II"!
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Cabbage Patch Kids, Gummy Bears. You know you want it! I'm holding out for a live-action Saber Rider and the Star Sherrifs. Or maybe Brave Star.
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Geof Bridges for Lion-o, Linford Christie as Panthro and Andy Serkis as Mum-Ra
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Oct 10, 2007 2:42:11 PM CDT
Thundercats trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_4Ju6ZqKPU
by the_samaritan
CGI can't compete w/ this!
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Fuck this third-string, C-list cartoon remake shit. I could count how old I was on both hands when it came out and didn't think it was all that. Transformers and GI Joe was--and is still--where it's at.
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...should be Siegfried and Roy.
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thunder thunder cats...HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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More laughably bad ideas, please, oh Hollywood brain-trust.
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Since we are never going to get a Ghostbusters III. Can Hollywood make a live-action Real Ghostbusters movie? With a blond Egon, talking Slimer and all...
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Look at his outfit: spikes and leather.
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........You don't even say who he is going to play.
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Nuff said son
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Can we stop this? What are we going to see next? A live action Voltron, Robotech (wait...that could have something), Silverhawks, etc. This was my great fear of Transformers being a success. We really do not need 80's cartoons being the next wave of crappy movies. Did we learn nothing from the videogame wave?
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that said, I'm all for that Scarlett Johannsen Cheetara
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Oct 10, 2007 4:14:46 PM CDT
What the fuck is a Somoflange?! Joye jojo, this and a couple oth
by modlight
I think furries are creepy, but I have long held a desire for a woman with a tail. I blame this, Shirttales, Gummiebears, and best of all RiffRaff's girl on Heathcliff for my sick fascination with half animal ladies. Oh and chicks in legwarmers.
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Is this guy gonna keep a straight face when his friends ask him what he's doing at work -
'Oh I'm ermm... I'm working on mmmummmbbleee'.
'Uh what? What did you say'?
'Yeh, you know... hmmmurrr'
'What? What are you working on?'
'Thundercats. Okay? It's Thundercats. Laugh it up'. -
...Gah, I went too high again!
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OK OK, maybe I can accept Thundercats as a CG film but I would much rather have live-action with excellent makeup and costumes.
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that is all
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ssia
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Unlike "Land of the Lost," the "Thundercats" were only cool to the hopelessly lame.
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No CGI, i want live action Thundercats pleaaaaaaaase.
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Oct 10, 2007 5:19:11 PM CDT
Thundercats in live-action would have looked recockulous
by boondock devil
I believe cgi is the way to go for this movie.
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Wanna get wasted and watch some porn?
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I don't think you've bludgeoned it quite enough yet.
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Some things, like this potential movie, should stay in our childhood
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And as for Cheetara, ahhh the possibilities...
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As though they give a shit about this show's nostalgic value. "Yes, let's draw in the old school fans with modern pop culture references!" Live action? WTF is wrong with you? It's hard enough to take this shit seriously as a cartoon. Face it, if they had any respect for the "story" or even the "hardcore" fans for that matter, they wouldn't have even greenlit it.
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ving rhames plays a good gay muscly guy.
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...who came up with this one?
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Final Fantasy style CG is mo-cap. Has been since 8. and, for the record, if this is CG, I hope it's not mo-cap. I hate that shit. It's lazy.
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Actually, part of the first season, was more or less a "coming of age" story until the 5 part anointment series, where he went through the trials against the other Thundercats, and afterwards, he truly became "Lord of the Thundercats": Part I (Trial of Strength), Part II (Trial of Speed), Part III (Trial of Cunning), Part IV (Trial of Mind Power) and Part V (Trial of Evil).
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Those wanting Thundercats to be live-action, just imagine Lion-O's hair alone... Now think Carrot Top... Nuff said...
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...TINO TINO TINO ...damn i miss these weird Transformers talkbacks.
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Or the self cleaning Kitty Litter Box (which is a godsend becuase those things are FOUL)
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Attachment of a hack director = TINO all over again
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I mean if they have to do one (and really, as much as I loved the series to we really, REALLY need a movie?)this mo-cap way seems to be the only way to do it without it looking completely stupid. I mean, theyre cat people-there was a reason it was a cartoo for Gods sake! and lets face it, its gonna end up being rubbish anyway, they always are...I keep giving hollywood the benefit of the doubt for adapting kids shows/computer games etc and they always let me down...I mean Transformers was okay but I cant remember the majority of it now.
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Thundercats? This is tru;y daft. Unless they kill that little one (snarf- I think). Even as a kid I thought he was an annoying little cunt
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Oct 11, 2007 8:53:14 AM CDT
As long as you kill Snarf in the first five minutes
by grammaton cleric binks
I'd be cool with Thundercats. And nuke those burbles too. Cosby Show grandfather back as Panthro. Okay,that won't happen, but his voice was smoooooth.
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John Goodman as Panthro, Steve Buscemi for Tigro, Julianne Moore as Cheetara and Larry Sellers ad Mum-Ra
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I'm Lion-O man so like that's what you call me. That or Lioner, El Lionerino if you're not into the whole brevity thing
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You're out of your element
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it did not look like Mum-Ra was about to crack!
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F*ckin-A
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You know for my *snarf* cycle, my dance quintet. I would *snarf* love it if you came and *snarf* gave me notes.
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You're entering a world of pain
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Notb that I have anything against Will Farell, just think it would be the wrong way to go here or in Land of the Lost for that matter. I like the coming of age theme. That was how the early episodes of the Thundrcats cartoon played out and it worked will. Wonder if they'll have that manfrog dude there or Rataro or Vultureman. "Unleashe the Vericannon." Mum-Ra could be a cool CGI character.
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Oct 11, 2007 11:54:41 AM CDT
Agreed about Kit and Kat. They should've bee kittens
by crichtonastronut
when the ship took off
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try proofreading it yourself before clicking the 'post' button and blaming Harry for all your problems. Just a thought.
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or maybe marionettes. Or maybe, aw fuck it, who cares.
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Isaac Hayes as Panthro. I'm all for a mo-cap cartoon (it's a cartoon whether or not live actors provide the movements...rotoscoping anyone? it's all animation, folks) as long as it doesn't involve the Cats falling through some kind of time portal and ending up in present day New York where Mumm-Ra has established himself as a corrupt businessman. I was never an enormous fan of that toon growing up, but it was a nice appetizer before Masters of the Universe. Transformers was one thing. The film was like just about every episode of the show, except it had Anthony Anderson being black and Jon Voight with a 12 gauge. But mostly it worked just fine for me, but it doesn't work that way with Thundercats. Simply put, it should be a straight up fantasy film, with no mention of modern day Earth, and none of this "My bad" bullshit. Mo-cap it up man.
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this is what they should have done for the Fantastic Four movies.
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my cat makes that noise, I kid you not.
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Think of the old He-Man cartoons, and now think of the movie. Skeletor laserwhipping a well oiled Dolph Lundgren...
Now think of how gay Thundercats were to begin with? Seriously that cartoon made the Broadway show Cats look butch. -
Starring Jackie Earle Haley as the Pie Man, and Parker Posey as Sour Grapes. We learn the sad history of the pie man, why he hates strawberries, and what's really in those pies that he was little children to eat...
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I liked it as a kid but I hate it now.
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were the thundercats supposed to be like the non-gay cats from the broadway show Cats?..cuz they were still pretty gay...even at a young age i remembered questioning Panthro
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They better not fuck this up. I am a child of the eighties and I can remember playing "thundercats" with my friends. I had a lot of the toys ( still want the thundertank), and own the series on dvd... this was a huge part of my childhood and if they mess it up I will lose all faith in movies and film in general... all i gotta say... oh and here's my dream list
Lion-o = Sean Bean
Panthro = either Sam Jackson or Larry Fishburn
jaga = Alec Guiness ( i know hes dead but still...)
Cheetara = Scarlett Johannsen
tygra = dunno....
Wily kit/kat = Olsen twins... ( one in drag of course)
Mummra = Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock
Monkian = Willam Defoe
Sssslithe = fuck... can't recall his name.... the big gay dude from Lake Placid
Vultureman = James Woods ( I know its a stretch but he could pull it off)
and i'm drunk so thats it... no mas... good night
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