Ryan Kavanaugh's financing and production venture Relativity Media is in negotiations to back the property, though on a more moderate budget, utilizing the type of cost-effective technology employed in films including 300.
The Mark Gordon Co. still is attached to produce Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which is based on the popular Japanese animated TV series of the 1980s.
Mark Gordon and Jordan Wynn are producers. Bryan Zuriff is exec producing. Producers expect to attach a director within the next week.
Last summer, New Regency picked up the rights to the property, adapted by scribe Justin Marks.
Marks' take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe is in development .
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The Doctor
I can't wait to see the 5 multicolouerd alien-robot lions, being pilote by five random people, saving civilians and the world. This sure does remind me of Power Rangers series now.
3 years agoby @ghettokidFlag
...YeahButTheBookWasBetter
Next theyll make Super Human Samurai Syber Squad into a movie, no type-o they spelled it that way
3 years agoby @theboywhocriedsequelFlag
Saquin Turok 'X'
I remember Star Fleet. The main ship was called the X-Bomber. I kid you not. Centurions- Power X-Treme. Fraggle Rock, with the Doozers and their constuctions, bizarrely made out of radishes... I'm getting all misty eyed now. Right, it's passed. I'm back in bastard mode now.
3 years agoby @teesterxFlag
SuperCanayaZ
YEAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
3 years agoby @supercanayazFlag
cnote
Props to you SWAK!!!
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag
SWAK1774
I was the only girl in my class watching Voltron when I was a kid. LOL
3 years agoby @swak1774Flag
cnote
I nominate Peter Jackson for 90% of all movies :-).
No problem,"err". I know "Phat" I could browse that site for hours...days....
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag
T.Clark
As long as we're on the subject, here's news about "The Masters of the Universe" form wizard magazine:
"The Players: Prolific producer joel silver is working with Mattel to bring He-Man and ompany to Warner Bros. and "Voltron" screenwriter Justin Marks is on board to write this one, as well.
The Scoop: As opposed to the Earth-based sotry of the original live-action movie, Marks indicated that the story will be set on Eternia, like the original carttoon. "This is an Eternian movie and it's a story about an Eternian hero," said Marks. "We're not going to Earth. It's an Adam origin story and a Skeletor origin story. We want to see both of them come from and how they got that way.""
I think this will be awesome with the right director, especially as live-action. I'd say Peter Jackson as director, but i doubt it'll happen.
3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
Phatlightning
sweet jesus, that site is the embodiment of my childhood...
3 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag
Err
nice site, cnote, thanks for the heads up.
3 years agoby @err2005Flag
cnote
While, were on the topic. Here is a great site to really rack the brain!!! http://www.retrojunk.com/
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag
Vamp
Omg! That Captain Planet just reminded me of an old show called Freakazoid! Do any of you remember that?! Oh this thread is causing me to get memory seizures! lol.
3 years agoby @vampire2000Flag
Phatlightning
"EARTH!" "FIRE!" "WIND!" "WATER!" "HEART!" "Go Planet!" "By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!" lol oh yes, that just happened.
3 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag
T.Clark
Don't dis captain planet lmao I used to watch that on cartoon network really early in the morning. Now that i'm older i think it's cheesy as hell, but if i got my hands on it, i could make cap planet one bad ass mo fo ;)
3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
cnote
Hell yea or Centurions or Visionaries...damn, showing my age again ;-)
I dont recall a show called StarFleet??
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag
Phatlightning
forget all that, what we need is some live action Captain Planet. lol
3 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag
evilwarrior31
Dont know much about Voltron,but does anyone remember a show called Star fleet?it came out very early 80s years before its time.Id love to see that turned into a film.
3 years agoby @evilwarrior31Flag
Err
BAM!
now that's a dis.
yeah that whole live action too-lame-for-animation action adventure show never appealed to me. the last non-animated kids show i watched as a tike was either fraggle rock or the great space coaster, which it turns out was not that great.
3 years agoby @err2005Flag
cnote
Im with you Turok, By the time all the Power Ranger stuff came out I was too old to even think about that stuff anymore. Plus it wasn't a cartoon, it was a bunch of actors who couldn't act and did battle with plastic guns and swords ;-)
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag
Saquin Turok 'X'
Voltron wasn't big in the UK, but I've never heard of the Beetleborgs at all. If it was around the time of Power Rangers, well, I was already well into my late teens by then.
3 years agoby @teesterxFlag
Vamp
Hey! You don't diss the Beetleborgs. That was the best show I watched as a child. That and Gargoyles. Anyone remember that?
3 years agoby @vampire2000Flag
Err
i have no recollection of the Beetleborgs so i googled it and it looks like power ranger type stuff, which i was never into.
but what is with this sh*t right here:
http://atlanplac.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/beetleborgs.jpg
that looks silly as hell.
3 years agoby @err2005Flag
Err
i had the toy for the motorcycle that turned into a helicopter, and it was friggin sweet.
3 years agoby @err2005Flag
Vamp
Oh! I remember that now! I just forgot the name for some reason!
3 years agoby @vampire2000Flag
cnote
Yup, and they all wore different type's of MASK's that did some cool sh*t....man those were the days
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag
Err
yeah mask was pretty cool when i was a kid.
that was the one with the guys who drove vehicles that transformed into other types of vehicles.
3 years agoby @err2005Flag
Psycho
Beetleborgs was awesome back then. I think Moviemaster75 is a young kid.
3 years agoby @physco-123Flag
cnote
Sorry dude, I was trying to find a a good age cut-off. Your an exception bro :) MASK was tight as hell..check some of the clips out on YouTube....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdgbs0IUDg
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag
Vamp
Hey. I'm under twenty three, and I know who Voltron and Thundercats are. MASK, not so much. What's that one about?
3 years agoby @vampire2000Flag
cnote
You must be a young'in "moviemaster75" most people under 23 probably wouldn't know who Voltron, MASK and Thundercats are. It's to bad, because this was the era that made cartoons and not poorly remade bullsh*t, they call cartoons now.
3 years agoby @cnoteFlag