Aug 18 2008'Voltron' Movie is Being Made for Real
Another day, another chance for Hollywood to hastily scrape the lining of the 1980s' uterus, hoping something they can rake out will resemble a movie if they project some light through it. This time: Voltron.
Fox-based New Regency has put robot project "Voltron: Defender of the Universe" into turnaround.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."
Last summer, New Regency picked up the rights to the property, adapted by scribe Justin Marks, who's behind Warner Bros.' bigscreen versions of "He-Man" and "Green Arrow."
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.
The worst part will be when I see the trailer in the theater and inevitably hear some kids talking about how it looks like a Power Rangers rip-off. "Hey, idiots, Voltron was around first! No, you're an old nerd!"
'Voltron' facing a Relativity reboot [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. LizHuerta - August 18, 2008 6:11 PM
First!!!!
2. AtomicSquid - August 18, 2008 6:26 PM
Let's all pray that it's the lion Voltron and not the vehicle Voltron and that Michael Bay has nothing to do with it!!
3. Isay - August 18, 2008 7:23 PM
anyone else feel like their childhood is being raped?
4. Rick - August 18, 2008 8:31 PM
I'm glad that everything I innocently enjoyed as a child is now being produced so the man can make a buck and destroy the basic concept......might be good though.
Any one know if a Thundercats is in the works?
5. theLordMangus - August 19, 2008 1:18 AM
fuck man.
this is bullshit.
i can garuntee this shit will suck dick.
fucking faggot hollywood.
although, i am stoked about that new terminator joint w/ christian bale
6. photosynthesize - August 19, 2008 1:40 AM
that uterus metaphor is rather revolting.
7. Chris - August 19, 2008 10:05 AM
I hope Joaquin Phoenix plays Prince Lotor. Maybe LaBoeuf as Pidge?
8. Don A. - August 19, 2008 10:37 AM
Who will pilot the blue lion? Sven or the princess?
My bet is that this movie gets the full effect of a PC enema and we get stuck with Princess Allura.
9. Kyle Hendrickson - August 19, 2008 10:41 AM
I picked up a copy of the script from a store in a mall.
It's terrible.
The chick is absolutely unlikeable, it's an incredibly dark tale, and there's very little fun to be found in the entire thing.
It consists of a world over-run by "robeasts", so this team of 5 people travels to mexico to an underground bunker where they are keeping their secret weapon, but they don't know how to activate it. The robeasts find their way into the bunker, and then they finally activate the lionbots to form voltron.
The humor in the script is almost non-existant.
The original halo script was fan freaking tastic compared to this stinker.
10. proteon - August 19, 2008 6:04 PM
Your childhood can only be raped if you actually HAD a childhood.
11. cocaine - August 20, 2008 2:15 AM
my childhoods been raped physically and figuratively, figuratively as of now
i didnt think it could get any worse but i guess i was wrong
and i didnt enjoy trasnformeres so much either
i feel violated so i think ill go to bed ._.