![]() ![]() But it’s the best opening of all time so how are we going to top that anyways? I think sidestepping into it is the smartest way to do it. There is no way you can fit a minute and twenty seconds of awesomeness into fifteen seconds. Now, Cartoon Network is saying “Do it in fifteen seconds”. We have the theme but without the electric guitars from the classic one.ĮS: Back then they had a minute and twenty seconds to do an opening title. It helps explain who the characters are and what the world is.Īre we going to get the original theme tune? The structure of a lot of episodes is that you have a little mission but in the course of that little mission we’ll flashback to some backstory. There are a lot of flashbacks involved in this story. You’ll find out how the characters got to where they are. We’re exploring characters that aren’t alive in this current time, we go back to their ancestors. We’re thrown into this world and over the first 26 epidoes you find out what happened in the 2000 years before and you find out what going to happen moving forward. So it starts assuming no prior knowledge of the show?ĮS: I wouldn’t say it’s from the beginning. That is how we’re writing each episode – let’s reveal the important scene. The questions you have will be answered – maybe not all of them but a lot of them. As you go on through the first 26 episodes, the world will slowly start to expand in your head. Every episode we try to reveal another layer of the mythology. You’re like, “How did the ThunderCats get there?”, “How did Mumm-ra get there?”, “What is the relationship between Grune and Claudus?”, and “Who is Panthro?”, because we don’t really see him in the first episode. We’ve set up this pretty dense world in the first two episodes. So the bad guys are still bad guys but regarding what the cats have done in the past, there is a question as to whether or not it’s something they should have been doing.Īpparently there’s some mystery involving Panthro in the new incarnation…ĭN: I don’t know if “mystery” is necessarily the right word. ![]() The show is primarily aimed at the 6-11 age group, so you want the bad guys to be bad – sort of like Darth Vader. The old show was very black and white, the good guys were good the bad guys were bad. ![]() MJ: We wanted to put a little bit more grey into this show. We’ve simplified the mythology in that way.Īre the characters going to be more complex this time? When we start off we’re only going to see a small portion of it but all the Cats, all the characters that we call Mutants, Mumm-ra, start off on what we call Third Earth, and Thundera on this planet is a kingdom. Michael Jelenic : They start off Third Earth and there’s a bigger mythology to this whole show. You’ve changed the set up slightly, so that the ThunderCats start off on Third Earth rather than travelling there from their home planet, Thundera… There’s so much! You don’t know where to put the brackets at! And I think that was the hardest thing, narrowing it down to figure out what can go in this thing. It’s got lasers and pirates and cat people. In a big fantasy show like ThunderCats it’s got everything. I think it’s because when you make a military show you know what the brackets are – it’s dudes with guns, it’s GI Joe. Dan Norton : Of all the ’80s properties I thought it was the better one of the bunch and yet no one touched it.
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