I still can’t decide if this is great or awful news. Warner Bros. has decided to abandon it’s plans to make a Masters of the Universe Movie.
Remember He-Man and the Masters of the Universe? I think on my block, as a kid, it was the second most popular set of toys after the Transformers. Back in 1987 Dolph Lungren took up the sword of Eternia as He-Man in the feature film version.
For a few years no, Matel has been working with Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver to bring He-Man back to the big screen, but nothing has happened. Why? Well, apparently Matel and Warner have had creative differences massive enough to part ways meaning Matel is looking for a new studio to make the film and Warner is out of the picture.
Matel reportedly wants to keep director John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda) attached to direct regardless of where the project ends up.
So yeah… good news or bad? I mean a He-Man movie would be just awful… but it COULD be awesome awful. Know what I mean? What do you think about this? (source: Movieweb)
I wouldn’t mind if they did it right,
Look at solmon, they could do it !!!!
I friggin love the He-Man still. I think the characters where great. So many of them would be amazing to see come to life.
But in ’87 the film fell short of amazing. It was kind of lame, even as a kid, I didn’t really enjoy it.
They brought in new characters, which were not needed & did that whole lame as “Comes To Earth” thing. Blah.
I want to see an epic Eternia Battle!
it could be amazing if they really stick with it & don’t crap out by creating new characters.
100 bucks I bet Paramount or Universal takes over and does this movie the way Mattel wants to.
Anyways I loved He-Man way more than the robot cartoon john mentioned but I don’t think it should be even attempted in live action.
But if they do end up doing it then well I will be there opening weekend.
Can’t say I was overtly enthused about the project, but perhaps it will be looked over by another studio.
Well I say its good news Mattel doesnt back down. Look what Paramount did when they choose Summers to direct G.I. Joe. As for Masters being translated to film a second time and being awsome… Sure its possible it just would need lots of work. More than Freddy vs Jason.
Summers is a seasoned director. His directing style fit with the style the GI Joe producers were looking for.
That style – crappy.
Why does this site constantly point out that people shouldn’t judge films, positive or negative, based on early information (ie Avatar trailer, Halo is great even when made by unknown director, etc) and even goes out of its way not to judge a movie when weird casting decisions are may, yet then calls movies awful before they are made (or even read the script)?
The right script can make even the weirdest concepts work well in a movie. This script was getting receiving praise too. The He-man re-imagining a few years ago was also fun. Doesn’t guarantee this movie will be great, but there’s no reason it must be awful either.
Scripts can also get rewritten, watered down, and then tossed out a few weeks before the film goes into production.
With the right script, and an updated take on the story, why couldn’t this work as a solid fantasy adventure?
Umm, because the premise itself is just gawdawful. Have you watched it lately? Do your expectations a favor and try and catch an episode (I’m sure YouTube has something.)
Sure. It could be another GI Joe, I guess, but is that something to aspire to? And that’s leaving aside the fact that GI Joe’s premise – at least in theory – had some promise.
He-Man was never as big as the other icons (GI Joe, Transformers). Even in the 80s – as close, timewise, as they were to the original series and fans – the movie crashed and burned financially. Kids who had grown up with the show didn’t go see it. Now those kids are in their thirties and forties. Think about it.
I was gonna call this one DOA even before Warner dropped out. Now? It may eventually make it to the screen, but I can guarantee, even this far out, that it will not be a good film.
Well, for me this is great news. I’m writing one now but it won’t come into play until after a graduate from the Art Institute of Seattle. which is in like four years…
plus, who’s to say it will ever see the silver screen anyways.
Argh, posts like this really get under my skin…
-Why- would it be awful? Why does it have to be either awful, or awesome awful? Because it’s origins are a cheesey 80’s cartoon? Because the last attempt at a live action movie was camp as hell?
With the right script, and an updated take on the story, why couldn’t this work as a solid fantasy adventure? I could see this working as a new, epic film franchise like Star Wars. A sword and sorcery film set in a LOTR type world, but with advanced technology added in.
I wouldn’t have been interested, so no loss. There seems to be a bit of a shake up going on in the studios lately.. I wonder what they are thinking? It sounds promising though, maybe WB want to put there efforts into DC properties now the disney marvel thing happened.
You can’t really make another one, as much as I’d like to see it. It worked in the 80’s because of how friggin’ campy it was. Frank Langella’s big “Master of the Universe” speech towards the end of the film is still my favorite movie villain speech ever!