Saturday, April 18, 2009

Michael Bay on Effing Up the Thundercats

I just have to share this damn hilarious Onion article: “Michael Bay signs $50M Deal to F--k Up the ThunderCats.” Some excerpts:

“I couldn’t be more excited to completely f--k this up,” said Bay, who plans to begin production on destroying the live-action adaptation next month. “The ThunderCats has a great story, endearing characters, action, adventure, space travel, and fantasy. It will be an honor to run it into the ground.”

…According to the terms of the deal, Bay must be allowed to eliminate the character Panthro entirely to focus on the asinine relationship between Snarf and Snarfer, and include nearly 22 minutes of frenetic, impossible-to-follow action sequences that he hopes will annoy the living Christ out of audiences.

“We’re just getting started on the storyboards, but I’ve already got a lot of really contrived ideas about zooming in way too close and shooting everything at nauseating angles,” said Bay, who claimed viewers won’t be able to tell if the climactic battle is between two blurry elbows or a half dozen leopard-print pillows.

Read the entire article here.

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