^ "Those Thundercats just keep on coming back".was once more actively developing a live-action ThunderCats film with Adam Wingard set to direct the film, with a screenplay by Wingard and Simon Barrett, and Roy Lee and Dan Lin serving as producers. In March 2021, it was announced that Warner Bros. In 2017, during the promotion of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, Milla Jovovich expressed interest to portray Cheetara. In 2011, test footage in CGI was leaked onto YouTube. Concept art for the film has also been leaked online.
It was originally set for release in the summer of 2010, but the movie was never greenlit, and as of 2020, has yet to be produced. The film was being produced by Spring Creek Productions. Jerry O'Flaherty, veteran video game art director, had signed on to direct.
Film Ī film adaptation of the series was announced in June 2007 Aurelio Jaro was to produce a CGI animated feature film of ThunderCats, based on a script written by Paul Sopocy. Items of clothing featuring the ThunderCats logo were available in the mid 1980s, and DVD boxsets releases of the original series helped new clothing products enjoy a resurgence in the mid to end of the 2000s, as nostalgia for the former children's favorite grew. The first issue featured a strip called Safe Haven which was written by Ferg Handley and drawn by Cosmo White.Ī side-scrolling video game based on the series, ThunderCats: The Lost Eye of Thundera, was published in 1987. In 2012, Panini Comics began publishing a new series in the United Kingdom to tie-in with the television series of 2011, titled ThunderCats Magazine. corporate sibling), and included five non-canon miniseries and several one shots. īeginning in 2002, ThunderCats titles were published by Wildstorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics (Warner Bros. During this time, a new series was published by Marvel UK consisting of 129 issues and was also published for three years. A ThunderCats comic book series based on the animated series was originally published by Marvel Comics through its Star Comics imprint in 1985, lasting for three years and twenty-four issues. There were also several comic book series produced. And preferably shouts it "Norm!" style whenever we arrive.Later adaptations Comics Gary Portnoy's theme tune has a strangely poignant quality to it, and we're still trying to find a pub where everybody knows our name. It's one of those intros that will never get boring and you will always sing along. This is one of the best electro songs of all time, let alone theme tunes. Yep, our top five theme tunes of all time really do contain two shows starring David Hasselhoff. It also has clever puns, amazing '80s power ballad vocals, saxophones AND a key change. Crazily catchy, it sounds like the Hall & Oates hit we never had. The first series made do with the less than thrilling 'Above The Waterline' by Kim Carnes. This sunny show's second season brought in Survivor 's Jimi Jamison to provide an epic power ballad that summed up the era perfectly, and still floods cheese night dance floors to this day.
And sadly it's not Nicholas Lyndhurst singing, it's Sullivan himself. The intro has the Chas & Dave-style "na na na naa naa", while the outro has 'Hookey Street'. Writer John Sullivan pulled off the amazing feat of creating not one, but TWO amazing theme tunes for the SAME SHOW. And all the 'slappadabass' action you can get. OK, technically this began in 1978, but the version of the theme tune that we all know and love came in later, so we're counting it! It doesn't get much more 1980s nor spell out AMERICAN SOAP! than this right here. Plus, it was produced by none other than Nile Rodgers and won two Grammy Awards. Though, we feel sorry that Michelangelo is limited to just being a 'party dude'.Ī theme tune so good from Al Jarreau, that it became a hit single in its own right. Catchy, rocking and it explains all four of the turtles' skills in a very short space of time. Also, it's that man Mike Post again – what a legend.ĭudes, this tune is still totally bodacious AND rad after nearly 30 years. You need something as insanely bombastic and bonkers as this tune for a show that featured Dirk Benedict and Mr T constantly on the run.