Charlie Wen has recently been named as Concept Artist for the upcoming ThunderCats movie.  Wen is a very talented artist who has worked on several video games and movies.  Amongst Wen’s recent achievements is his work as Visual Development Director for the popular series God of War and upcoming God of War 2.  Up until recently Wen worked at Imagi Studios as a character designer for Gatchaman, a movie remake of G-Force.

This is what Wen had to say about his departure from the Gatchaman project and his involvement in the upcoming ThunderCats movie:

“The vision’s changed since I first joined and seems to be going towards a younger Power Rangers audience - I wanted to see a Gatchaman that I would love to see and didn’t want to see it go this direction, so I departed from Imagi and took an Art Directing/Character Designing gig on ThunderCats.

ThunderCats is another old cartoon that’s making it’s way to film…hoooooooo!  Hehe - sorry, couldn’t help myself.  The show also made an impression on me as a kid, maybe not quite the way Gatchaman did, but none the less, it took a good chunk of my after school hours.  Currently, this is keeping me busy, along with some other projects on the side, which I can’t mention yet.”

I can’t wait to see Wen’s work on the new ThunderCats movie, it’s all very hush hush at the moment but I bet it will be worth the wait!  Watch this space…

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It has recently been announced that Larry Kenney, the voice of Lion-O in the original 80’s ThunderCats cartoon series, will be appearing at Florida Super Con.  Florida Super Con is South Florida’s comic book, anime, animation, cosplay, manga & fantasy convention. 

Florida Super Con will take place during the weekend of 23rd to 25th May 2008.  See here for details… Florida Super Con

If any of you are lucky enough to meet Larry Kenney and take photographs please e-mail your photographs to us and we’ll publish them here.  Please see the contact page above for details of how to contact us.

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Tracey ‘Tre’ Armstrong, actress and dancer, talks to IESB.net about why she would make the perfect ThunderCat. 

IESB: Would you ever want to take a role that didn’t involve dance?

Armstrong: I want to do action films. I would love to play Cheetara in ThunderCats. I would love that.

IESB: I was going to ask if you had a dream role but I don’t think I could get a much more perfect response than Cheetara in ThunderCats.

Armstrong: My friend and I were talking about ThunderCats a second ago and I’ve always loved the show. I’m a Leo – I was born in August – and I’m like a cat. I’m very leonine. That is the perfect character that embodies me. She appears only when she needs to appear and does what she has to do quickly and gets out.

For the rest of the interview, the non-ThunderCats part, please visit IESB.net.

Unfortunately for Tre the new ThunderCats movie is CGI-animated but if it wasn’t then I’m quite sure that she’d have been our Cheetara!

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Most ThunderCats fans will know Larry Kenney as the voice of Lion-O from the popular 1980’s animated series.  He was also the voice of Jackalman and various other ThunderCats characters.  Larry is a fantastic voice actor and a complete legend.  I would love to see Larry reclaim his role as the voice of Lion-O in the upcoming CGI-animated ThunderCats movie.  

The guys over at ThunderCats Lair have taken the brilliant step of starting a petition to this effect.  If you would like to see ThunderCats legend Larry Kenney reprise his role as the voice of Lion-O in the upcoming ThunderCats movie then head on over to ThunderCats Lair and sign the petition.  I’m sure that every true ThunderCats fan would agree that it has to be Larry!

Please click on the link below to show your support and sign the petition:

ThunderCats Movie Petition - Larry Kenney as the Voice of Lion-O! 

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