…and I’ll form THE HEAD!
One of my favourite cartoons as a child is going to get updated into a film. Yeah, we heard it before and the Voltron movie posibilities just didn’t seem to be happening. But word is now that movies like Transformers are proving to be a big hit, they are looking at other franchises that just didn’t seem realistic to make movies out of.
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.”
The Mark Gordon Co. still is attached to produce “Voltron,” 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.
The ball. It is rolling.
Now I know there is a handful of people with the whole “why are they raping my childhood!” pinned to their shirts so they don’t lose the note on the way home from school, but I have no issues with modern live action updates of 80s cartoons. Of course I hope that they are “done right” and I think Transformers was “done right” so I have faith in Hollywood on this one.
Hopefully we will get a very realistic version of the Voltron lions and a crew that doesn’t come from a Thunderbirds Go movie. It always bothered me that out of all the trained and capable military staff and gifted experienced pilots on the planet they always manage to find a handful of kids to pilot the unique technology destined to save us from alien invaders!
Edit: I have added this short video clip of the Five robot Lions of the Voltron Force combining to form Voltron. Some people just don’t know what Voltron is so this might spark some memories, or give you a glimpse into why this needs an updated version!
This is the clear favourite. There was a vehicle version of Voltron that would air in the same timeslot in cycles but it wasn’t even close to the Lion Voltron. You always knew it was over when Voltron pulled out that sword!
