Overview
- Wingard confirmed Monday that his live-action/CGI ThunderCats film “is not dead” and that he and co-writer Simon Barrett completed a new script draft earlier this year.
- He describes the project as a hybrid CGI, hyperreal production designed to preserve the 1980s ThunderCats look rather than becoming conventional live-action.
- Active development is paused while Wingard finishes other commitments, including his new film Onslaught and prior Godzilla x Kong work, and no production schedule has been announced.
- Warner Bros. Pictures Animation separately teased an animated ThunderCats film at the Annecy festival in June and the studio has not clarified whether the animated project is the same as Wingard’s.
- The recent box-office failure of Amazon MGM’s Masters of the Universe has increased studio caution for high-budget ’80s reboots and could push Warner Bros. toward further delays or a streaming release strategy.