Maybe later, people will talk about the humans involved, but we all know that we’re here for Godzilla and Kong.ĭEADLINE: It’s Hagler-Hearns, Tyson-Holyfield, Ali-Frazier - the fight we’ve waited to see. It’s all about the monsters, and that is the main, important thing. You don’t see my name nobody knows I directed this movie. Who do you see on those billboards? You see Godzilla and you see Kong.
You look at all the advertising for the film, the posters, trailers and billboards. WINGARD: You’re right, everyone has to take a back seat to Godzilla vs. Everything comes down to these two creatures. Kong, it seems challenging to do much more with your humans than have them look up, with emotions like fear and concern on their faces. The film is a follow-up to their story, and what it entails.ĭEADLINE: Mixing humans and kaiju in Godzilla vs. But the story is really about the characters. It’s part of it and is what makes it so unique and fun. 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. WINGARD: I’m going to do the next available thing, quickly. At first we heard remake but adjusted when you made it clear this is a sequel. That’s the starting point, and Simon Barrett and I are getting into the script now.ĭEADLINE: And that loser school friend is not invited to the premiere?ĭEADLINE: We recently broke your involvement in a new version of the John Woo John Travolta-Nicolas Cage film Face/Off.
A hybrid CGI film that has a hyper real look and somehow bridges the gap between cartoon and CGI.
I want to do a movie you’ve never seen before. I don’t want it to look like Cats, I don’t want those kinds of issues - no disrespect to that director, whom I don’t mean to throw under the bus any more than everyone else has. I don’t want to do it live action, either. I don’t want to reinvent the way they look I want them to look like ThunderCats. I want to do a ThunderCats film that takes you back to that ‘80s aesthetic. It’s got a rich mythology the characters are fantastic. I saw this as an opportunity to do a new type of fantasy sci-fi spectacle film that people have never seen before. Nobody on this planet knows or has thought as much about ThunderCats as I have. I asked them, I want to rewrite this script with my friend Simon Barrett.
I heard there was a ThunderCats script out there and it happened to be set up with some of my producers on Death Note. They love the movie, as we were wrapping it. But flash forward, 20 years later and here we are. I thought, am I crazy for obsessing over this, thinking it’s something you can just do? As it turns out, when you’re a kid in Alabama with no resources or connections to filmmaking, it is impossible to make a ThunderCats film. But that was the first moment where I had a though that maybe I would not be able to make the ThunderCats movie. And I heard him turn around to some of the girls in the class, these were girls I had crushes on, and he’s making fun of me for writing ThunderCats! Because it was ridiculous. It was only one day my friends asked me and I was excitedly telling him all these things about my ThunderCats screenplay. I didn’t even realize the kids in my class were making fun of me as they would ask me questions about my ThunderCats screenplay. It was one of those things where I would carry around my notebooks and talk about it. The screenplay itself ended up being 272 pages long. And the reason? I was writing my ThunderCats screenplay through my entire 10th grade year. I didn’t pay attention in school, made terrible grades. 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. 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. When I was in high school, I was obsessed with it. WINGARD: ThunderCats is a dream project for me.
Kong' Director Adam Wingard To Helm 'Thundercats' Movie For Warner BrosĭEADLINE: Let’s get right to the story we just broke, that you are going to make a big theatrical version of the ThunderCats animated TV series.