Adam Wingard’s new Thundercats movie will use the pioneering human/feline genetic modification techniques first used in Tom Hoopers Cats.
“Cats was a pioneering film in many ways,” explained Wingard.
“But the way it used genetic modification techniques to fuse the DNA of humans and cats to create a brand-new human/feline creature just pushed the boundaries of special effects way past what many people thought was achievable.
“We’ll be basing everything on that tech. But we’ll have to build on it. Remember in Cats, those guys were just ordinary human/feline hybrids, but in Thundercats they are superhero human/feline hybrids, so that introduces a new level on complexity into the genetic modification work we’ll be doing.”
Wingard was confident that his team had found a way to achieve that new complexity and grant the new human/feline hybrids superpowers.
“Yes, we’ll simply use technology,” he said, proudly.
Whilst news that Thundercats will be using genetic modification techniques has proved an exciting development for the industry, the human/feline hybrids who starred in Cats were disappointed.
“Yeah, pretty gutted to be honest,” said the hybrid of James Corden and a piebald cat called Dusty.
“After all that genetically modification work we went through for Cats, we thought that we’d all be a shoo-in for future human/feline roles. So, to be told we’re not up for Thundercats is a bit of a kick in the teeth.
“Apparently, we don’t have superhuman powers. Well, neither does Chris Hemsworth, but he plays a pretty convincing Thor. You know, I’m an actor. I can act superpowers.
“Got any Purina?”
With a likely live-action adaptation of Disney’s The Aristocats, and an inevitable Garfield reboot, it seems that the human/feline genetic modification techniques will continue to have a place in modern filmmaking and the race of human/feline hybrids will continue to grow.
Will they ever launch a bloody revolution over their human masters to become the dominant race on the planet? Only time will tell.
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New Apes movie ‘Mall of the Planet of the Apes’ to be light-hearted teen comedy
In a surprising departure for the series, the new Planet of the Apes film – Mall of the Planet of the Apes will be a light-hearted romp about high-school apes going shopping, hanging out with friends at the mall, and getting in sexy scrapes with each other.
The new film comes hot on the heels of War of the Planet of the Apes which featured a number of grumpy apes being grumpy with each other.
“Yeah, I felt that we’d taken the whole ‘grumpy ape’ thing too far,” said director Seth Hawthorne.
“I mean, the movies were getting bleaker and bleaker, if we’d have stuck on the same trajectory, the next film would just be an ape screaming into the camera for two hours.”
“No one wants to see that, and we’ve got the test-screen results to prove it.”
However, it wasn’t just audience reaction that shaped the decision to move to a more light-hearted tone.
“It’s just logic. If the actual planet of the apes was that relentlessly grim, then the apes would all go and live on other planets and it wouldn’t be a planet of the apes anymore but a planet of the, I don’t know, dogs and cats.”
“Which is less dramatically satisfying.”
Mall of the Planet of the Apes is the first in a new, more fun, ‘Apes’ trilogy, the next being Planet of the Apes: Getting some and concluding with Planet of the Apes: Electric Boogaloo.
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