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James McAvoy eyes Lion-O role in Thundercats movie
Star tees up lead role in yet to be conceived film.
James McAvoy is up for clasping the Sword of Omens in a clawed fist to play the role of Lion-O in a movie version of 'Thundercats'.
The star of Irvine Welsh adaptation 'Filth' – oh and a few movies about comic book mutants – McAvoy appears to be a fan of the 80s animated series, recently reinvigorated for the Cartoon Network but since dropped again.
Speaking to Total Film, he begins by praising the fan-made mock-up trailer which emerged a few years back, which doctored footage from several different films turning Brad Pitt into Lion-O and Vin Diesel into Panthro.
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It's since received nearly 7 million views, but McAvoy doesn't stop there.
“It can't happen, but the other cartoon that I love was Thundercats,” he says before enthusing that he'd 'love to see a Thundercats movie'.
But one character would be axed from the get-go.
“Not Snarf, because he was the really annoying thing that just need to get rid of. Just need to forget that happened,” he said. “There's was almost Jar-Jar Binks levels of badness there.
But Lion-O is a great character for any actor. It's explored a little bit in the cartoon, but you could really go for a 12-year-old in the body of a man. Like, a ripped, muscly, fightin' man, who's meant to be the king of these people, but he's got a 12-year-old's intellect.
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“It's basically the movie 'Vice Versa', but with superpowers and the Sword of Omens. D'you know what I mean? That's amazing. That could be an Oscar as well as box office bait.”
The man has a point.
Last week it was claimed – thanks to mischievous, agent-worrying quotes from not McAvoy himself but Irvine Welsh – that the 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' star had his eye on playing Jimmy Savile in a biopic.
Obviously that was not the case... but Lion-O?
That's something we could go for. And Warner Bros has mulled a 'Thundercats' movie in the past... we feel an e-petition coming on.
Strangely, this isn't the first time that McAvoy has professed his love for the show.
He was spotted out at the theatre back in 2009 sporting a Thundercats pin-badge. Clearly the actor will stop at nothing until he's secured the role of his career.
Who would you like to see starring in a live-action remake of 'Thundercats'? You be sure to let us know...
