Oct 17 2008He-Man Movie Does Not Have the Power
Well, it sounds like a He-Man movie probably isn't going to happen. Sorry, everyone who really wanted a He-Man movie. From Latino Review:
So what is the latest on one of my favorite scripts of the year – Justin Marks’ GRAYSKULL?Nothing. As it stands, the project is dead at Warner Brothers.
The studio gave the execs at Silver Pictures a very small list of A-director names they would consider making the film with, amongst them Doug Liman and Bryan Singer who both passed. There were some up and coming directors that were gung ho on the script, but the studio wasn’t feeling them.
Another reason and perhaps the biggest was that Navid McIIhargey, the exec who brought in He-Man to Silver Pictures, left the company last month to become a Senior VP at New Regency as reported last month in both trades.
Just as well. We were greedy to ever ask for another try after the Dolph Lundgren attempt on the '80s toy character was such a... victory?
Reader Comments
1. fireDog - October 17, 2008 1:13 PM
damn.... that sucks.
I know it'd be cheesy as hell, but I would've gone to see it
2. Nick - October 17, 2008 2:21 PM
No one can replace Frank Langella as Skeletor. This was doomed from the start.
3. vendetta - October 17, 2008 2:37 PM
wtf who cares, there already was a heman movie! and it ruled!
further more, why do we need to stripmine.. the stripmine?
4. DrNecropolis - October 17, 2008 2:46 PM
Yeah, I probably would've seen it too. Especially if they factored in how old their original audience is now. Let's be nice to Dolph, afterall he's only been in one movie that hasn't been relegated to b-cinema (Rocky iv). Despite what everyone else says, the original Punisher movie was pretty decent, (for its time) and universal soldier was sweet. I was going to go somewhere with this but I forgot, oh well...
5. Eville1 - October 17, 2008 3:19 PM
Poor Dolph. First they diss his version of the Punisher and now this? For shame. Although whoever the original teela was gave me a stiffy when i was a kid.
6. erica - October 17, 2008 3:36 PM
Dolph should just do the new Conan movie and we're all set.
7. TetraShiva - October 17, 2008 3:54 PM
The original is one of my all time favorite movies as a kid. I even have it on DVD, after picking it up for $5 at Fred Meyer's.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original was the first film Courtney Cox was ever in, right?
8. Elmo - October 18, 2008 12:57 PM
Ahh what a shitty cartoon that was... I have trouble thinking what was stupider
9. Kizzle - October 20, 2008 12:51 AM
Fuck off, Elmo. Masters of the Universe ruled in every form.
Tetra, yeah. It was her first movie.