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Warner Bros. is dipping into the well of nostalgia for two upcoming animated films, but not necessarily from the same generation. The studio recently teased both a Powerpuff Girls and ThunderCats animated film during a conference. While no plot details or release windows have been shared, it is enough to get classic animation fans very excited.

The news comes out of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, where Warner Bros. Pictures Animation shared a sizzle reel that featured several projects that are currently in development. Two jumped out as being things that had not yet been announced by the studio. The first was a Powerpuff Girls animated film, which reports have confirmed is in development but hasn’t been greenlit for production. That would be the first new Powerpuff Girls animation since 2019 when the second animated series ended.

We are, of course, ignoring the ill-fated live-action series that (thankfully) never got made.

The other big news out of the sizzler reel was a new ThunderCats animated movie. This one would be aimed at a slightly older generation who grew up in the 1980s and remembers the original cartoon. As a contemporary of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, there is a lot of rose-tinted glasses involved in our memories of ThunderCats. Unlike Powerpuff Girls, which had a 2002 box office flop, we’ve never gotten to see ThunderCats on the big screen, animated or otherwise.

Again, neither of these projects is necessarily in production yet. Their inclusion in a sizzler reel, which hasn’t been publicly released yet, doesn’t mean that they’ll be on our screens soon. It just means that Warner Bros. is developing – finding staff, scoping budget, and all the boring stuff that happens before a movie gets made – ThunderCats and Powerpuff Girls movies. Both are likely years away from being completed.

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