Warner Bros. has just optioned a script by Paul Sopocy to turn the cheesy Thundercats series from the '80s into a cheesy CGI film, reports Variety.  Paula Weinstein is attached to produce the flm through Spring Creek Productions with Dick Robertson and Lew Korman.  This joins the big-screen "Transformers" film hitting screens next month, the "Speed Racer" film under production right now, and the update of the "He-Man" franchise that Joel Silver is overseeing.  "The Care Bears," "My Little Pony" and "Strawberry Shortcake" have all seen resurgences in popularity over the past few years, geared mainly at the younger audiences.  "G.I. Joe" has already come back as a CGI series and is likely headed to the big screen in the next few years, if the rumors pan out.  In short, if you were a child of the '80s, you're going to be seeing a lot of familiar faces.

Case in point: Thundercats was a Rankin-Bass 'toon that premiered in 1983 as as half-hour toy commercial capitalizing on the same success that He-Man and G.I.Joe had just begun to enjoy.  Like He-Man, the Thundercats used a blend of futuristic tech with sword-and-sorcery tropes (literally).  Unlike the Masters of the Universe, the T-Cats started out far more bleak: young Lion-O and his band of companions find themselves the only survivors of the destruction of their homeworld, stranded on another planet and battling fearsome foes who'd like to make them extinct.  Think of it like Battlestar Galatica with furries.  Sopocy's script apparently retells the origin of the series, possibly keeping more of the "OMG doomed" aspect much as BSG's update has done to great effect.  (As long as it doesn't keep with the spirit of the Wildstorm comic update from 2003, I'll be happy.)