Warner Bros not going for Thundercats
Warner Bros Pictures is not making a bet on the eighties animated television series as they scrap the plans to go and bring Thundercats onto the big screen. Although Jerry O’Flaherty was expected to direct the CGI animated feature of the popular series, Collider confirms that the project is put down. Though Warner Bros is not doing the project anymore does not mean that there is a realm of possibility that it could get picked up elsewhere.
Thundercats was an animated show that lasted from about 1985 to 1990 that also spanned into comic books and action figures. The show follows the adventures of the eponymous team of heroes, cat-like humanoid aliens from the planet of Thundera. O’Flaherty would have had his first big role in feature films, only working on video games before this almost big break.
Wrong, Warner Bros. owns the franchise – and since they still care for the animated series, I don’t think they’d sell the rights anytime soon. I can’t even come up with one franchise Warner Bros. has ever sold (not even distribution rights). Meaning not just any company can pick up the rights, just film companies owned by Time Warner: New Line or Warner Bros. And they don’t care for the film-project anymore – so this awful mess will thankfully never happen.
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