The website geekdommovies.com has confirmed that a Michael Bay directed movies starring Reynolds and Franco called “Six Underground” is really a live-action version of the 1980’s cartoon Thundercats!
The originally released premise for Six Underground said that the story revolved around six billionaires who fake their deaths in order to team up and fight evil. The project was given a $150 million budget, one of the largest budgets to ever be given by Netflix, with the hopes that it would spawn a franchise, much like Bright. The script is being helmed by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who previously wrote both Deadpool movies for Ryan Reynolds, hinting that the movie may be an action-comedy.
A reliable source connected to IGN has now claimed that that the movie is secretly set to be about the ThunderCats, and that the entire Six Underground premise is just a ploy in order to make the ThunderCats reveal a surprise. IGN has pointed out that their source is the same source that claimed that Simon Pegg would be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which ended up being true, so they are certainly reliable. While this rumor should still be taken with a grain of salt, it is still interesting news.
If this report is indeed true, then it would also mean that Ryan Reynolds would be the star of the movie. While the rumor didn’t say who any of the actors currently signed on would be playing, it did say that the cast currently attached to Six Underground would be in the movie. This would include The Disaster Artist and Now You See Me star Dave Franco, Inglorious Basterds and Now You See Me actress Mélanie Laurent, Pacific Rim: Uprising actress Adria Arjona, and X-Men: Apocalypse actor Ben Hardy.
Six Underground is currently slated to enter production this fall, so if this rumor is indeed true, we may hear more reports on the matter in just a few months. While the current premise for Six Underground is certainly interesting, there’s no denying that a potential ThunderCats movie is more exciting and much more up Michael Bay’s alley. Time will only tell if this rumor from IGN Middle East does pan out to be true or not, but for the millions of ThunderCats fans around the world, we certainly hope it does. If so, it will be great to see Ryan Reynolds star in an explosion-filled ThunderCats movie that hopefully sets up an entire franchise on Netflix.
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