Overview
- Wingard, who spoke to Polygon on Monday, said the live-action/CGI ThunderCats project “is not dead” and that he and co-writer Simon Barrett completed a new draft earlier this year.
- The film remains in the scripting stage and Wingard has put active development on hold while he finishes and promotes other projects such as Godzilla x Kong and Onslaught.
- Wingard’s stated creative goal is a hybrid CGI, hyperreal movie that preserves the original 1980s ThunderCats look rather than a conventional live-action translation.
- Warner Bros. Pictures Animation announced a separate ThunderCats animated feature at the Annecy festival in June, and sources say it is unclear whether that effort is the same as Wingard’s project.
- Industry coverage notes that recent box-office weakness for comparable ’80s reboots may prompt Warner Bros. to scale the project, change its release plan, or favor a streaming-first strategy.