He-Man Resurrected
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By the power of Greyskull! He-Man is to make a return journey to the big screen courtesy of producer Joel (The Matrix) Silver and director John (Kung Fu Panda) Stevenson, for who it will be his first live action feature. The film will be made for Warner Bros, reports Variety. Of course, this isn't the first time the '80s cartoon hero has seen cinema action. There was a dire, camp live action flick back in 1987 with Dolph Lungdren as the muscly prince who transforms into muscly hero and Frank ("I can get Oscar-nominated these day")Langella as Skeletor, along with a pre-Friends Courteney Cox and a pre-Trek Robert Duncan McNeill. That moved the majority of the action from (an expensive to create) Eternia to (a budget-friendly) present-day Earth. Complete and utter bobbins. Hopefully this new version will keep things Eternia-based. And presumably we'll get a CG Cringer this time round. They're probably on the phone to Framestore already... "Hey guys... you know that lion you did for the Narnia films? Any chance of Photoshopping him green?" |
Oh and please don't make Orco the Jar Jar Binks of the film...
Posted by Pete (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 09:00 AM GMT #
How did only 3 people (Man at Arms, Orco and The Sourceress) figure this out!
Hopefully the new film will poke fun at this. should be good though if Joel Silver is behind the project. Any word on a Thundercats film?
Posted by Mr Kleason (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 09:58 AM GMT #
Clark Kent Syndrome
Posted by Mike (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM GMT #
Posted by Pete (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM GMT #
Posted by Shaun Brown (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM GMT #
Posted by Mr Kleason (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM GMT #
I just hope it works, if they go down the sword and sorcery route like LOTR and keep it contained in it's own universe it might just be believable enough to work, but if they take it down the nostalgia route and try to make it more like Transformers I'd be worried as green tigers probably wouldn't work with an Earth story.
Saying that I actually kinda like the first movie even if they did replace Orko with Gwildor and moved all the action to Earth and added new characters in favour of old classics, Sauron was definitely no Cobra Khan, but it was the 80's and technology has moved on enough since then to do it justice.
(Crosses fingers and prays to the Power of Greyskull)
Posted by Pete (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 01:58 PM GMT #
http://www.latinoreview.com/news/grayskull-masters-of-the-universe-script-review-4765
Posted by ironeater (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 05:01 PM GMT #
Posted by John Cooper (127.0.0.1) on January 30, 2009 at 06:44 PM GMT
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And surely Verne Troyer as Orko. Or maybe he could be Skeletor's mini-me...
And The He-Man Bible? What's that? A Guide to exciting gay dating? By the power of Gayskull! I'll stop now...
Posted by spiderboris (127.0.0.1) on January 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM GMT
Website: http://televisionoff.blogspot.com #