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Thundercats Movie Director Shares Promising Update on '80s Cartoon Classic Revival

Godzilla vs. Kong director says his long-gestating ThunderCats adaptation is still kicking It's been more than five years since Warner Bros. and Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs. Kong, The Guest) announced plans to make a live-action film adaptation of the '80s classic cartoon ThunderCats but there's been little to show for it. Wingard's passion project has taken a back seat to blockbuster fare such as Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and the upcoming A24 action-thriller Onslaught, but the director gave Polygon a (mostly) positive update on his ThunderCats project this week. The live-action ThunderCats movie is not dead, Wingard tells Polygon, and he was working on the project in earnest earlier this year. In an interview with Polygon for Onslaught, Wingard says his ThunderCats movie is still on his stack of in-development projects. "My career's kind of bouncing around, so different things have taken precedence," Wingard says. "But [ThunderCats is] still kicking around. I think it's just a matter of finding time to really re-concentrate and re-engage with it. We did a new draft at the beginning of this year. It wasn't too long ago, and then things got put on hold for this movie [Onslaught]

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Godzilla vs. Kong director says his long-gestating ThunderCats adaptation is still kicking It's been more than five years since Warner Bros. and Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs. Kong, The Guest) announced plans to make a live-action film…

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Thundercats Movie Director Shares Promising Update on '80s Cartoon Classic Revival

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