Charlie Wen Working On Thundercats Movie
Published on December 29, 2008 by admin · 40 CommentsThunderCats movie news coming from Hollywood suggests Charlie Wen is doing the concept work. He is most famous for his work on the Gatchaman movie as well as being illustrator for the Gods of War 1 and 2 games.
Charlie Wen is the second big name from the gaming world that Warners have signed up to work on the Thundercats movie after they signed up Gears of War art director Gerry O’Flagherty to direct Thundercats.
It’s believed the movie is attempting to pay homage to the original TV series while still receiving an update to the design.
Voice casting is now underway and announcements are imminent. Fingers crossed that Warners have listened to the fans and offered Larry Kenney, original voice of Lion-O the lead role.
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Meanwhile check out the fan made Thundercats movie trailer below.
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this has to be by far one of the best fan made trailer can’t wait to see the real thing.
just off to sign your petition. Keep up the good work – look forward to seeing the fruits of your hard work in the future.
thundercats . . . HO!!
i don’t want the new movie to be “real”
i want the movie to have the same roots but an updated new feel using CG.
Ok, this trailer is pretty damn hot!
Tell ya wot, that gets me well excited watchin that… CG is a bad idea, I’d want the movie to follow along the line of Transformers, from cartoon to full-on movie. The special effects, Mumra, the whole shabang would be collossal, just want something to kick ass on Marvel and DC Comics. Thundercats CG? NO NO NO!
Holy Crap!!! I really had no idea what to expect from this trailer about five minutes ago, but it is definately an excellent piece of work. Kudos to all involved; you guys kick major ass.
I think it would be better with real humans and not c.g
I grew up watching the series, so it was maybe one of my favorite cartoons to watch as a kid. So I think a Live-Action film (like transformers) would be way more appealing then a CG movie . But I’d take whatever is decided because any movie made about thundercats is better then none made at all.
Holy hell. I know it’s a fake but I so want to see the movie attached to that….
PLEASE!!!!!! Don’t make this movie CG!!! And whatever you do…please don’t have Brad Pitt play Lionel…lol!!! If the main characters don’t look as real as the cartoon series then fans will be in an uproar…TRUST ME!! Go all the way and cast REAL people….do Snarf like they did Garfield in CG and have the rest of the cast look and sound identical to the cartoon characters with a fantastic story of how they became the Thundercats and kick a$$ action and graphics and this movie will be CERTAIN to make millions upon millions. The fans have spoken…now ACTION!!!!!
OMG!!!!!! That was, by great leaps and bounds, the awesomest trailer I have ever seen that wasn’t corporate made! It just seemed so real that it made me utterly ecstatic to see the movie! Maybe the movie studio heads should shop around youtube to hire these types of true creative minds to write new movie adaptations and scripts…. This person needs to be hired and well paid by some studio executive! On another note, I am slightly disappointed to see that my beloved Thundercats may be in CG form in the near future… Apparently no one in Tinseltown has any type of foresight on the ramifications of a BADLY DONE CG MOVIE! Transformers was huge, largely due to Michael Bay and the man with the Midas movie touch Steven Speilberg. Or Tim Burton. Or any of the first four Harry Potter movie teams. Get them to make the movie. Or if they stubbornly stay with CG, at least get Pixar on it!!! These people’s talents are greatly prized and Oscar awarded for a reason!
OK. Is this film actually real? I’ve heard that it is all just a hoax.This movie needs to be made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If it is real, any idea when its out? Thanks
It’s about time some one is going to make a good movie #1 fan
For the live movie I hope they don’t screw up the cast. I had ideas for some time now.
Jaga: Patrick Stewart
Panthro: Michael Jai White
Lion-O: Ryan Reynolds
Cheetara: Former WWE wrestler Stacy Keibler
Tygra: Donnie Yen
WilyKit: Q’orianka Kilcher (A New World)
WilyKat: Taylor Lautner (Sharkboy)
Snarf: CGI (Voice : Damon Wayans)
Mumm-RA: The Mummy version: Gordon Liu
The Ever living: Nathan Jones
I also had the Mutants.
I wish I was in casting. this flick would be SICK!!
OMG YES PLEASE please please i have been saying for YEEEAAARRRSSS that some one needed to make this movie!!!!!!! please please!!! omg omg!!! & He-Man!
i realy loved the trealer but i would prefer someone else for the part of lion-o.i am looking forward for the movie is going to be great…….
Please do not make CGI. it will not make as much money that it will if it’s real humans. Please show Marvel what WB is made of. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
I have heard that this movie is now not being made due to budgetary problems
I too would prefer a live-action movie, but I wouldn’t mind a CGI film if it is well done. FF: The Spirit Within or FF7: Advent Children or Beowulf should be what they aim for, more photo-realistic than TNMT.
As for my choices for a live action cast:
Lion-O: Tom Welling
Jaga: Bruce Willis
Panthro: Michael Clarke Duncan
Tygra: Hugh Jackman
Cheetara: Ali Larter or Kate Beckinsale
Wily Kit and Wily Kat: Mary Kate and Ashley Olson
that was an awsome trailor..if that was real this movie would make millions of dollars…i agree with everyone when they say dont do CG keep it real. the true fans would love it so much more
oh my god, that was awesome! hopefully if the cgi version does well enough the may consider doing a live action and if it was anything like that ‘dummy’ trailer it would be unreal!
The only problem i have with that trailer (if it were real) is BRAD PITT AS LION-O? JESUS CHRIST THATS THE WORST THING EVER!!!! PLEASE GOD NO!!!
this is some bs y would you folks take the only black character (panthro) and give it to a mix or white guy when we (NEGROS) supported the show too. its just another case were we got thrown up under the bus again and its a shame that no one had enough testicular fortitude to step up and say something just look at his name PAN-THRO sounds kinda like panther and afro don’t it and i know i want get a responds but i just wanted to say i thought the writers had my people in mind when he made the character
THUNDERCATS MOVIE WILL MAKE MORE MONEY THAN TITANIC I BET U . PEOPLE DONT REALIZE HOW ICONIC THUNDERCATS IS AND PEOPLE ARE UNDERESTIMATING THE PUBLICS EAGERNESS TO FINALLY MAKE THIS MOVIE REALITY. AS A KID I GREW UP ON THUNDERCATS AND WE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOVIE TO COME OUT!
Vin Diesel and Hugh Jackman they,re so perfect for theyre characters but the characters theyre so wrong is LIon o and CHeetara Liono is for Mel Gibson and cheetara is for Ali Larter or angelina Julie one at the two actreses thankx
I thought this was the real thing. Great work guys. I think someone else should play Lion-O like Orlando Bloom. Cheetara, who else but Halle Berry, and Hugh Jackman and Vin Diesel will be perfect.
And I disagree with the casting choices. I work in the Entertainment Industry, and like typical Hollywood, they are trying to put too many names for draw purposes.
Sorry, CG.I will not work with the fantasy storyline of the Thundercats. Just look at Beowulf, Speed Racer, and G.I Joe. those movies were crappy. They got carried away like Michael Bay did with both Transformers. Nice C.G.I but no storyline. I am a true Thundercat fan and if anyone wants to make a good movie that will be cherished by their legions of fans and passed down to their kids as a classic, then someone better call Peter Jackson, J.J Abrams, or James Cameron and get their input. And as far as casting, Michael Clark Duncan is the only person I would cast for Panthro.
I totally think that Hugh Jackman would be perfect for Tygra, he fits the character. and if this movie ever comes out it better be made totally to the cartoon and in depth about the story, for the fans
Lion-O:Hugh Jackman
Cheetara:Kate Beckinsale
Tygra:Scoot Speedman
Panthro:Michasha Armstrong
WillyKit:Abigail Breslin
WillyKat: Max Records
Jaga: Sean Connory
Almost all the other old scool classics have slowly but surely made their come backs, so lets see the THUNDERCATS live again. As long as it’s done in honor of the originality of TCs as well with some style and the technology of today they couble larger than life once and for all. Plus my kids as well as kids around the world would know them better than what we’ve tried to show them, and give them SIGHT BEYOND SIGHT. THUNDERCATS HOOOOOOOOOO!
the movie will be awesome, it has to be, so doing it on the cheap si not a options. yt heart says i want real tiem actors type movie, but my head says it properly would not work great.
I do believe theyshould listen to the fans as much as possible, obviously not the pyschotic fans lol lol.
AS for who should play whoin the movie, i don’t think we need big hitters who will take all the money, mayeb a few upcoming and international starst from asian etc those with talent not just looks and bleach teethed smile. Although i must admit a muscle up Vin Diesel whould nice to see in panthros outfit or lack of.
It a kind of movie that could a great triloogy, hence the powers that be must seek depth of characters and their devine connection to each other.
All the original voices are brilliant and it would be in th best interest to get closer to or teh style of i mean who wants beyonce as cheetara Mmmmm mayeb lol.
Thats all for now. All i can say is keep lobby the Warner with your ideas and request, they need us to make them rich.
i got it!!!! dennis haysbert from the unit as panthro,and charlise theron as chetara,hugh jackman as tigro and carrot top as lion-o lol j/k on carrot top but in his defense he did beef up allot.but i do like ryan renolds but he needs to seriously hit the weights with some weight gainer he needs to add about 20 more pounds of muscle but his face fits lion-os profile
A live version ThunderCats movie, if done right, has the potential to out sell even Avatar. No CGI! Do the work to create in depth landscapes and make-up. Have a great cast that know martial arts well but fit the characters they are portraying. I don’t thing you have to have so many well known actors. They tend to carry the images of past movies.
Cool trailer….my choice wud b mel gibson 4 lion-o, charlize theron, lucy liu for cheetara, hugh jackman for….for gudness sake…call him tiger-O already! Vin diesel or bruce wilis as panthero….just get bruce in the movie…and hu the hell is jaga…jaguar-man?…jag-o then…
i think the perfect chetara would be Megan Fox
Thunder Cats Motion Picture
Recipe for millions of dollar success
First they need to scrap the writer and get Ridley Scott to be the Epic screen writer. The Director needs to be Steven Spielberg. The Cast needs to be as follows.
Lion-O-Brad Pitt
Cheetara-Kate Beckinsale
Panthro-Kevin Grevioux from revenge of the lycans
Wiley Kitt-Dakota Fanning
Wiley Katt-new talent young
Mumra-Gerard Butler
It will be CG generated likelike characters with the actors features. (think like avatar) It needs a Big Budget with four movies. The first is the struggle of their home of origins torn conflict and utilmately its destruction and need to seek a new home world. The ones that follow is about the struggle to carry on the legacy and heritage of their lost culture as lion o becomes a king and protector. This is while fighting the inhabitants of a new world. It needs to be a dark tone of loss and survival up until the third movie. This is when Jaga is lost and Lion O fully has accepted he has to preserve his right of passage as leader of the Thundercats, and protect the remnants of his homeworld as the restructure. This of course is while conflicting a new found evil on the newly discovered homeworld (Mumra). There is no bubblegum in this movie and the character Snarf makes a few appearances as a wise advisor in jaga absent to keep him on course from working against jaga’s advice. snarfs race plays a large role in the first movie as servants to the aristocratic structure of the thundercats race. His character is serious not comic relief to erase the tone of the movie.The third movies will mirror loss, defeat, anguish before achieving triumphant over all adversity. The climax is the fourth with the fully blossomed Lion-O leading the Thunder Cats into battle to preserve their right to remain on this world alongside formerly oppressed and enslaved races by Mumra. This is before He becomes the equivalent of a appointed emperor for all races. Imagery and cinematography needs to have a Revenge of the Lycans like tone. The sets needs to be a mesh of victorian and crude futuristic.
Jaga-Sean Connery
I forgot
Tigra- Guy Pearce
make sure you circulate this screenplay and cast for success. I sent to emails.
I would have to agree with Vin as Panthro, and i would have to say that the guy (so can’t think of his name right now though) who played Wolverine (in X-Men) would make a great Tygra.
Bruce Campbell as Lion-o
and Danielle Harris as Cheetara