In another legal battle over rights, producers James Young, Ford Oelman and Mark Costa of Animus Films and NHO Entertainment are suing World Events (who holds the Voltron pink slips) for negotiating a deal while they were supposed to be in an exclusive timeframe.
“World Events secretly conspired with Jason Netter and Kickstart Entertainment to find investors and make the movie without NHO and Animus during the terms of the exclusive deal,” the suit maintains.
The plaintiffs are suing World Events for breach of contract, fraud and interference with their contractual relations. They are seeking multiple forms of damages.
According to a spokesperson for World Events and Kickstart “this lawsuit is frivolous and without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously,” they added “fortunately, these baseless claims do not in any way encumber the film or any other Voltron project, and we are excited to proceed on the long-awaited Voltron feature film with our partner Atlas.”
Sounds like they are pretty confident that this suit is nothing but a bitter grab from a failed negotiation, or at least they are walking the confidence line with their chins up high.
I am curious to see how a live action Voltron could come about, and what to expect. We have already seen how amazing giant robots can look on the big screen, so hopefully the Defender of the Universe can hold that standard.
“The Defender of the Universe.” LOL, I totally forgot that that’s what Voltron was suppose to be. Man, talk about your “heavy” jobs. ;p
The thing that concerns me is them making it too Power Rangerish. If the cast isn’t a bunch of winny teenagers who can’t act for shit and the story is some what dark and pretty dramatic, and they can make the alien villains pretty damn cool, I’ll be happy. Also, I hope that it doesn’t take place on earth, but another world with a kind mid-evil mixed with future technology theme, like in the original series. But I could be asking for too much. ;)
*hollywood. (don’t worry, my scripts are all class)
Please please please don’t mess this up, Hollwood. I’ll even write you a decent script if I have to.
Live action giant robots are looking better and better, but the movies they inhabit aren’t too great.
I love Voltron, but I don’t know how I feel about a live-action movie…We shall see.