Warner Bros. Pictures has teamed with Gaylord Films to option the rights to the Hanna-Barbera characters the Wonder Twins, with plans to make a live-action family feature.
The Wonder Twins were originally featured as part of a group of characters on the 1977 Saturday morning cartoon series "The All-New SuperFriends Hour," which saw Superman teaming up with popular DC Comics superheroes for adventures. Within that group were two youth trainee aliens from the planet Exxor, known as the Wonder Twins. The male Zan had the power to change into any water-based form, while the female Jayna could become any animal. To use their powers, the twins had to touch hands and shout, "Wonder Twin powers, activate!"
The Wonder Twins also had the power to telepathically communicate with each other and carried with them a type of a pager known as Teen Trouble Alerts, which allowed teens all over the world to contact them if there was a problem. The siblings had a sidekick as well, a mischievous blue monkey named Gleek.
The studio will now create a family-oriented feature much like "Scooby-Doo" and "Spy Kids" that will center on the twins.
A writer is expected to come aboard shortly to write the material, which will be produced by Gaylord's Hunt Lowry and Casey La Scala.