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| | (Post a comment) » Former Epic Games Art Director To Direct CGI Thundercats MovieThis Variety story reports that Jerry O'Flaherty, formerly the art director at Epic Games, has now moved into the movie business and has been hired by Warner Brothers to direct a CGI movie based on the classic 1980's animated TV series Thundercats. O'Flaherty worked at Epic as Studio Art Director for Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3 before leaving to pursue his film career. He also worked at the now defunct Ion Storm and Westwood Studios. Here is a snip:
O'Flaherty had been looking to make the leap into movies and was considering several projects, even live action.
But the "Thundercats" story appealed to him, as well as the fact that vidgames are increasingly incorporating lavish animated sequences that mimic pics, making a toon a much easier transition.
"It feels like a natural thing for me to step into," he said. "Games have come so far now. The last four years of my life have been about bringing the energy of filmmaking into the videogame experience."
The Thundercats movie is said to be true to the spirit of the 1980's TV show. No release date has been announced. |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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 Yoshi (2319)   Oct 10, 2007 - 12:25 pm | Edited on Oct 10, 2007 - 12:26 pm
| Lets hope that the movie is based on the offical graphic novels they put out. The Amazon.com reviews are amazing for it. Here is one of the better reviews for it:
This series is pretty revolting. People I've talked to have generally hated this. It's all well and good to have a property grow up, but this is just sick gritty for the sake of being gritty. Some of our beloved characters get killed. Cheetara is raped daily. Wily Kit, a child, grows up as Mummra's sex slave. It's just disgusting. It's like an extremely bad fanfic, written by an overzealous and sexually frustrated teen. To add to this is how badly the sexual abuse is handled. Despite being ravaged for years, chained up in a mine, etc, Cheetara is drawn like a Playboy model. And not only does her body not suffer the torture, but she doesn't seem broken or mentally unstable like true rape victims are. Obviously, the idea of Cheetara being raped is MEANT to be sensual and to sell the book, otherwise we wouldn't be treated to full page spreads of her looking sexy in chains. (And people attack "I Spit on Your Grave" for glorifying rape... that was realistic in the horror).
On the same token, Wily Kit, who is obviously at this point the product of child rape and molestation (by a frickin' MUMMY) seems trong willed and again, is drawn in a way that must be to make comic book fanboys go "HEHEH!! Look, sexy!"
And to finish it up, later in this series, the Thundercats have to team with the Mutants against the Dogs of War. And what happens? Apperantly, the Thundercats forgive all that horror upon them, have a big celebration feast and Lion-o TOASTS Mumm-ra!? "Cheers to Mumm-ra, who killed my people and raped my friends!" I'm surprised they didn't have Cheetara giggle at the mutants sitting at the table and say "So... my room later?"
All in all, a TERRIBLE, repulsive story and anyone who showers it with praise is obviously degenerate and has no true love for the original.
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