Executive Producer Dan Lin on the new craze in Hollywood

Nostgalia seems to be ruling the movie world of late, the most eagerly awaited movies are based on cartoons and toy lines of the 80′s.  ‘Transformers’ is hitting the big screen this summer followed by ‘He-Man’ in 2009 and then of course ’Thundercats’ in 2010.

Dan Lin, Executive Producer of the ‘Thundercats’ movie, is also overseeing the ‘He-Man’ movie.  When asked about this new trend of movies coming out of Hollywood Lin said:

“When I first got here, it was about the movie-star movies. Now it’s evolved into event movies.  My job is to bring my bosses what I’m into.  You certainly see a lot of younger guys who grew up with these comicbooks and TV shows pushing these projects forward.”

Lin has an important job, it’s his job not to crush our childhood memories of these cartoons.  I for one long for these movies to be as close to the original cartoons as possible.  Nothing will ever beat our memories of these cartoons but these movies could come close!