Här i Sverige får vi vänta på Adam Wingards fläskiga monsterfest Godzilla vs. Kong till april, men redan nu kan vi se fram emot filmskaparens nästa stora fantasy-projekt: en Thundercats-film. Enligt en intervju med Deadline är detta något av ett passionsprojekt för Wingard, då kultfenomenet från 80-talet är något som har varit med honom hela hans liv:
ThunderCats is a dream project for me. When I was in high school, I was obsessed with it. You'd think at that point, I was a little too old, that my years of obsession with ThunderCats would be when I was 6 years old. My real obsession with ThunderCats came in high school, the pinnacle of me deciding I wanted to be a filmmaker, and pushing in that direction...I actually spent most of my 10th grade year, I completely blew it. I didn't pay attention in school, made terrible grades. And the reason? I was writing my ThunderCats screenplay through my entire 10th grade year. And I was hand-writing it. The screenplay itself ended up being 272 pages long. I still have it.
Han berättar att han förlöjligades för sitt Thundercats-manus som ung, men att han 20 år senare är tacksam över att uppfylla en barndomsdröm:
I heard there was a ThunderCats script out there and it happened to be set up with some of my producers on Death Note. I asked them, I want to rewrite this script with my friend Simon Barrett. This is a huge passion thing for me. Nobody on this planet knows or has thought as much about ThunderCats as I have. They gave me the reins. I saw this as an opportunity to do a new type of fantasy sci-fi spectacle film that people have never seen before. It's got a rich mythology; the characters are fantastic. The colors. I want to do a ThunderCats film that takes you back to that '80s aesthetic.
Regissören är också aktuell med en uppföljare till kultrullen Face/Off, där han diskuterade vikten av att göra karaktärerna rättvisa i fortsättningen:
I'm going to do the next available thing, quickly. Maybe that's Face/Off 2. When I look at Face/Off, some people have said if you are going to follow that film, it's about the operation, a sci-fi gimmick. To me, that's now what it is. It's part of it and is what makes it so unique and fun. But the story is really about the characters. Sean Archer and Castor Troy. The film is a follow-up to their story, and what it entails.
Thundercats har tidigare väckts till nytt liv via en reboot från 2011 och en mindre uppskattad nytolkning från 2020 kallad Thundercats Roar, men detta blir alltså första gången som franchisen får en Hollywood-adaption. Vad tycker du om Thundercats? Vill du se en långfilm om dessa kattmänniskor?
