{"id":652480,"date":"2026-06-22T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652480\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:46:11","slug":"wb-sets-thundercats-powerpuff-girls-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652480\/","title":{"rendered":"WB Sets &#8220;Thundercats,&#8221; &#8220;Powerpuff Girls&#8221; Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wb-sets-thundercats-powerpuff-girls-films.jpg\" data-caption=\"Rankin-Bass.  Courtesy of Alamy.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wb-sets-thundercats-powerpuff-girls-films.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"wb-sets-thundercats-powerpuff-girls-films\"\/><\/a>Rankin-Bass.  Courtesy of Alamy.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. Animation has announced that animated feature films based on the \u201cThundercats\u201d and \u201cThe Powerpuff Girls\u201d properties are in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The news was revealed as part of the Warner Bros. Animation panel at this year\u2019s Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market in France, with both projects said to be in active development.<\/p>\n<p>The late 1980s Rankin-Bass animated series \u201cThundercats\u201d revolved around a group of humanoid cats who must flee their planet of Thundera after it\u2019s destroyed. Crash-landing on another planet, Third Earth, they must thwart the evil sorcerer Mumm-Ra who is bent on killing them off.<\/p>\n<p>At last report, filmmaker Adam Wingard had been developing a \u2018hybrid CGI feature adaptation\u2019 which he was co-writing with Simon Barrett.  No word if that\u2019s still in play.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the studio also confirmed a new \u201cThe Powerpuff Girls\u201d film was in the works alongside a \u201cPrehistoria\u201d film directed by Vivienne Medrano (aka VivziePop) and the previously announced \u201cBad Fairies\u201d which will see Serrano Su-Ling Bliss, James Acaster, Dee Bradley Baker join Cynthia Erivo in the voice cast.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. Animation also unveiled its new introduction clip for films which you can see below.  It will first be seen with the upcoming \u201cThe Cat in the Hat\u201d animated feature.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/chalamet-gomez-to-lead-animated-alien-film\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chalamet, Gomez To Lead Animated Alien Film<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/ori-director-on-xboxs-game-pass-problem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOri\u201d Director On Xbox\u2019s Game Pass Problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rankin-Bass. Courtesy of Alamy. Warner Bros. Animation has announced that animated feature films based on the \u201cThundercats\u201d and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}