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 A24 action-thriller Onslaught (which is now streaming), but the director gave Polygon a (mostly) positive update on his ThunderCats project this summer.
The live-action ThunderCats movie is not dead, Wingard tells Polygon. In fact, he was working on the project in earnest earlier this year. In an interview with Polygon, 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 [Onslaught]. So I don't really have any exciting updates.
It's just not the number one [thing] I'm working on right now." Wingard and Warner Bros. announced the ThunderCats movie in 2021. At the time, it was described by Deadline as a "big-scale feature" film based on the ThunderCats animated TV series. Wingard worked with writer Simon Barrett, who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Godzilla vs.
Kong, The Guest, and Onslaught, to expand the ThunderCats universe. At the time, Wingard described ThunderCats as "a dream project" and that he wrote a 272-page screenplay about the cartoon in high school. "My real obsession with ThunderCats came in high school," Wingard told Deadline in 2021, "the pinnacle of me deciding I wanted to be a filmmaker. [...] I actually spent most of my 10th grade year, I completely blew it.
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