Thundercats Movie on way

A script written by new writer Paul Sopocy of the popular 80′s animated TV series Thundercats has been optioned by Warner Brothers with a view to make it into a live action movie.

The movie will see the return of the humanoid cats like Lion-O, Panthro, and Tygra, who leave their doomed planet Thundera and crash on Third Earth, there they face the evil sorcerer Mumm-Ra who wants to see the Thundercats dead.

Paula Weinstein will produce through her Spring Creek Productions banner along with Lew Korman and Dick Robertson. Thundercats is Sopocy first studio script sale as a screenwriter.