We have a few reasons why Greyskull is dead in the water, and may have no hope of coming to fruition. We get the scoop from our friends at 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.
For starters, Warners simply doesn’t get the property and wasn’t high on it to begin with.
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.
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. In the Hollywood business culture, once an exec leaves, usually his projects are killed by the new incoming exec.
There you go folks, it looks like those of us that had interest in a journey to Eternia are going to have to wait a while more, perhaps not at all. The blending of Sci-Fi and sword and sandal genres are not without their problems, but if done right – I think we could have seen something very cool.
The characters are what make the Eternia such an exciting place, and I for one am upset that I will not see Skeletor in time for christmas.
Based on the inside scoop graciously provided by the dudes over at Latino Review, I can’t see anything happening with project. If, down the road it leaves the hands of WB and goes elsewhere, perhaps. But until then I think the best we can hope for is watching reruns of the cartoons, the films with Dolph Lundgren and playing with the toys (which are awesome).
