Cartoons
ThunderCats on Screen
Widely regarded by critics and fans as one of the finest animated series of its era, ThunderCats premiered in 1985 and ran 130 episodes across two seasons. It returned in 2011 for a single, beautifully crafted 26-episode reboot. A CGI feature film was developed for Warner Bros. in 2007 and shelved before production. A live-action / animated hybrid is in long-running development under Adam Wingard. This is the hub for every one of those screen lives.
The Animated Series
1985 – 1989 · Rankin/Bass
The Original Series
The flagship Rankin/Bass production. Lion-O grown to manhood in suspended animation, the survivors of Thundera carving out a new home on Third Earth, Mumm-Ra in his pyramid, sci-fi and fantasy blended around a strong moral centre. Animated in Tokyo by Pacific Animation Corporation.
Browse the episode guide →2011 – 2012 · Warner Bros. Animation
The 2011 Reboot
A grounded, serialised retelling of the origin. Studio 4°C brought a different visual language. Michael Jelenic and Todd Casey ran the writers' room. The single season was cut short but landed as one of the most loved reboots of the era.
Browse the episode guide →Feature Films
2007 · Warner Bros. · Unproduced
The 2007 CGI Movie
Paul Sopocy wrote it. Jerry O’Flaherty was attached to direct. Spring Creek was producing. Targeted for summer 2010, never greenlit. The full 116-page first-draft screenplay is mirrored here, watermark-free.
Read the screenplay →2021 – present · In development
The Wingard Project
Adam Wingard signed on in 2021 to develop a live-action and animated hybrid ThunderCats feature for Warner Bros. Wingard has spoken publicly about reading the Sopocy and earlier-attempt scripts and using them as a foundation. The project remains in development.
Project tracker →The Production Archive
Behind-the-scenes material the show generated and the legacy site spent two decades collecting. Some surfaces here are members-only (production scripts in particular); the rest are open to everyone.
MEMBERS
Production Scripts
Writers’ drafts and studio shooting copies from the 1985 Rankin/Bass production. Sourced from ThunderCatsFans.org and mirrored here for permanence.
97 ENTRIES
Animation Art
Production cels, model sheets, storyboards, and concept work from both series. The page-art layer of the show, scanned and catalogued.
16 INTERVIEWS
Voice Actor Interviews
Long-form interviews and audio sessions with the principal cast of both series. Bernie Hoffer, Earle Hyman, Gerrianne Raphael, Larry Kenney, Lynne Lipton and more.
12 ANIMATORS
Pacific Animation Studio
The Tokyo studio that drew the 1985 series. PAC’s history, its key animators (Iizuka, Kohanawa, Nishida, Yasumura, more) and the broader Japanese animation lineage behind the show.
COMING SOON
Audio & Music
The Bernie Hoffer score, the iconic theme, the production audio, and the audio interviews from the Hear The Roar archive. Sourcing in progress.
54 FEATURES
Articles & Features
Long-form pieces from the thundercats.org archive: behind-the- scenes deep dives, broadcast history, character spotlights and the long-running editorial work.