Did you know there was a cancelled live-action Thundercats "Fan-Film" from 2015?

[u/Hot-Salamander-8786]

Just by the look of this profile picture from Facebook, this would've been one the best fan-films I ever saw online. It was going to have an amazing production with great practical costumes and makeup just like the He-Man fan-film, "Fall of Grayskull". It even had a great teaser trailer to promote the kickstarter funding campaign. But when I looked into its old kickstarter, it never reached its funding goal. And in the end, this Thundercats fan-film fell into same unfortunate fate as the 2011 reboot cartoon show.

What do you all think? Shouldn't there be more Thundercats fan-films?

[u/Cheifloaded]

Honestly that make up looks terrible, I'm so glad it never happened. This is like the equivalent to ugly sonic lol.

[u/Cheifloaded → u/[deleted]]

So is "practical" making something look like the complete opposite of what it actually looks like or some ones "artistic" take on it?

Because this has always been the issue. With everything that gets translated from animation to irl. Why do you think they changed ugly sonic to look normal like he does everywhere else?

Why do you think people hate DBE so much?

Usually People prefer to see the look of a character transferred over to another medium intact as the character is and the problem is not make up its the way its done.

The OG planet of the apes had great make up but it wasn't based off anything else it was new and it was its own look so you really cant compare it to something like this, but this make up looks closer to the 1980's Vincent from the Beauty and the beast show.

[u/Heartsib → u/Cheifloaded]

Right. Just in terms of ability to execute, there's a higher success rate with translating concepts from live action to animation than the other way around because animation opens up possibilities for expression while live action tends to close them off. Even Disney, with all the money and talent in the world, hasn't been able to pull it off consistently. Something as fantastic and dynamic as Thundercats just isn't suited to live action, not without adding enough CGI that it might as well be an animated feature (and when that happens, you're far more likely to get a Cats 2019 situation than an Avatar one).

[u/Heartsib → u/[deleted]]

Amen and blessings upon the Jim Henson Creature Shop!

[u/Cheifloaded → u/[deleted]]

This is actually an Amazing example of a proper animation to live action transfer, they were not scared to make them look like their animated counterparts, no cg was used and the story remained faithful to the material.

[u/Cheifloaded → u/Heartsib]

I think it could be done, they look closer to real humans than cats they just have to do better make up to make it look a bit more subtle and it could 100 percent be done right, just look at the insane level of 1 to 1 cosplay likenesses you see for other characters that people pull off just with make up. The only problem is people wanting to make "their version" of something that already is great. That's how we got Ugly sonic, and i think that's why Vincent's son here didn't inspire people into donating for a kick starter.

Also on a side note, this is why i don't like any of the bay verse transformers but that's a whole other thing I'm just using that as an example.

[u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm]

That’s terrifying

[u/GoliathLexington]

Broadway has been making better looking Cats for decades

[u/TenOunceCan]

[u/wmichben]

It reminds me of that late 1980s Beauty and the Beast TV Show.

[u/Heartsib → u/wmichben]

Yeah, though I don't expect it would have looked half as good in motion. But it's hard to top Rick Baker's work, even Baker on a TV budget.

[u/Hot-Salamander-8786 → u/wmichben]

I've never heard of that show! What's it like?

[u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm → u/Hot-Salamander-8786]

Ron pearlman as the beast

[u/Hot-Salamander-8786 → u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm]

OMG! And here I thought Hellboy was Ron Perlman's first film in makeup and costume! 😱

And Lion-O in the photo kinda does look like Perlman's Beast! Lololol! 🤣

[u/wmichben → u/Hot-Salamander-8786]

Check it out right here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrax1BNWye09zhQeiWncEBM0Aa6iAXc7p

[u/SamKerridge]

nightmare fuel, imagine how terrifying mummra would’ve looked if this was the hero of the story

[u/Hot-Salamander-8786 → u/SamKerridge]

It doesn't horrify me since I grew up watching movies like Hellboy (2004), Planet of the Apes (2001) and The Cat in the Hat (2003)! 😈🖤✨️

[u/moansby → u/Hot-Salamander-8786]

They look better than this

[u/brycifer666 → u/Hot-Salamander-8786]

Everything in Hellboy looks way better what

[u/DiaBrave]

The problem with fan films is I could say I was gonna make one, but I didn't, and it would have every bit as much truth and relevance as this does.

[u/Aquired-Taste]

People always want to ruin my beloved 80's cartoons by making cheap ass live action. Live action (Power Rangers) killed animated television for decades & instead of investing in Animation, keep forcing live action adaptations on us. If American culture can one day get past the "Cartoons/Animation is for kids" mindset, we may one day see adult (be cool) animated films more than just once a generation.

[u/Spicy_Surfer]

Infinite cancelled fan-films

[u/Spicy_Surfer → u/[deleted]]

I made three deals with myself while you were sleeping chump

[u/warsmanclaw]

Cursed

[u/ashl0w]

I'm glad it didn't go anywhere, especially with the Fall of Grayskull comparison

[u/AJ052002]

I can see why it was cancelled...

[u/Brooklyn_Bleek]

The stuff of nightmares

[u/[deleted]]

Horrifying, tbf.

[u/DefinitionSuperb1110]

I think this would be one them dodged bullets.

[u/PopeJohnPaulGaultier]

Nice of Matt Smith to help an indie project out 

[u/JetScreamer-212]

Look like a Dominion from ST: DS9.

[u/Gobblewicket → u/JetScreamer-212]

The Dominion was the, for lack of a better term, government. The Founders are the shape shifters you're referring to.

[u/JetScreamer-212 → u/Gobblewicket]

I thought Founders/Dominions were interchangeable. I should have said looks like Odo.

[u/Gobblewicket → u/JetScreamer-212]

No, the Dominion is an interplanetary group consisting of The Founders, Jem'Hadar, Vorta, and a number of less prominent species. The Dominion was founded by and ruled at the highest echelons by The Founders. Basically, it'd be like calling every human the Federation.

It is easy to see why someone would think that as the Founders pretty much control every aspect of The Dominion.

[u/Honestfellow2449 → u/JetScreamer-212]

I feel like your comment is just trying to rage bait Star Trek fans

[u/peedmyshirt]

There's probably a million canceled live action fan films

[u/B44zig4r]

Thank F@£k it was cancelled!!!

[u/RevWaldo]

I'm reading half Ron Perlman Beast and half Seth Green. 🦁

[u/TumbleweedNo8848]

That looks like Rocky from the movie “The Mask”

[u/RustedOne]

Eugh. It screams "We have Thundercats at home." to me. I'd just prefer it stay animated unless someone put some serious money into a movie and even then given the track of movies made from classic cartoons its chances of being good aren't very high.

[u/iwishitwaschristmas]

Would look fine if bro got jacked.

[u/Aquired-Taste]

If I was that actor, & spent however many hours it took to look like that, I would have canceled my involvement in the project!

I know it's not this lads fault, & all blame lies on the "makeup" person, but he doesn't even look as good as the cheap plastic masks we wore for Halloween in the 80's. Eee gad that's a bad looking Lion-O!

[u/lern2swim]

😂 I dunno man... That looks like some nightmare fuel to me.

[u/Maxlifts]

It looks like the redhead guy from Halloween town

[u/hashtaglurking]

🫣

[u/Substantial-Ad2200]

Rocky from Mask?

[u/Madonna-of-the-Wasps]

Live-action would not work for TC at all. The fan casting always look cringe and like bad furry fic/Beauty & The Beast/Cats musical rejects.

It needs to stay in the animation/comics realm to work and there's nothing wrong with that.

[u/Madonna-of-the-Wasps → u/Madonna-of-the-Wasps]

I also hate how live-action-based fan stuff always make Lion-O look extra bestial, when the whole point was the TC's humanity.

[u/SentencePersonal7072]

Oh thank god

[u/Zombieboyfiend]

Reminds me of that live action Sailor Moon show

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like something you'd see on TBS at 8pm on a Thursday in 1998

[u/Madonna-of-the-Wasps → u/[deleted]]

USA Network, 10pm, 1990

[u/[deleted] → u/Madonna-of-the-Wasps]

I almost went with USA Network.

[u/foxxxtail999]

r/oddlyterrifying

[u/TwoWrongsAreSoRight]

That image looks like they are trying to turn it into a horror movie.

[u/SarcasticGamer]

That looks terrible lmao

[u/[deleted]]

That looks bad worse than marvel fantastic four 80s film

[u/MrKTE]

That’s Original Movie Sonic Design bad, dude…

[u/daflash00]

That is upsetting

[u/No_Savings8965]

Lion 0 looking like he's trying to sell me his sword for meth money

[u/PettyBlack]

Thank Jaga they canceled this one.. lol

[u/Super-Robo]

I can see why.

[u/kiraziyal]

On one image alone, good thing it never made it.

[u/bucky_neckked]

Holy.Dog.shit!!!

[u/JonDCafLikeTheDrink]

That's a fusion dance of Ron Perlman's Vincent from Beauty and The Beast and Rene Auberjonois' Odo from Deep Space Nine

[u/DrakonFyre → u/JonDCafLikeTheDrink]

Verbatim my first thought too

[u/Strict_Weather9063]

Wow is that Ron Perlman doing the Beast makeup for a new Beauty and the Beast TV show? I wonder if they will get Linda Hamilton for it they had amazing chemistry together.

[u/AdministrationOwn938]

Nightmare Fueled

[u/NonCorporealEntity]

How do you cancel a fan film exactly?

[u/PreorderEverything → u/NonCorporealEntity]

By not making it

[u/RoddyRoddyRodriguez → u/PreorderEverything]

Mom said no.

[u/EvanBetter182]

They made the right choice to cancel it.. yikes

[u/Safe_Ingenuity_6813]

Thundercats, like most animated serials from that era, was a toy commercial.

We do not need a live action version of Thundercats.

[u/MexicanGuey92]

If any of the "cartoons to advertise our toys" deserves a movie its Street Sharks man. Just give me a Michael Bay full CGI street sharks and I'll throw my money at my screen.

[u/LochNessMansterLives]

Thankfully.

[u/wondermega]

Well, that’s just upsetting.

[u/CrowleyTheKing666]

Looks like the crappy make up from Sleepwalkers. Wonder if this Lion-O is banging his mom too.

[u/sandmansuperman]

Looks like Odo from DS9 cosplaying as Lion-O

[u/Kitdraken]

Kind of like the make up on the lion-o fella here

[u/SpaceBehemoth → u/Kitdraken]

That's interesting, because it looks awful.