Voltron the Movie is coming! Voltron! Haha… I swear this is the best. Seeing all these cartoons I used to watch as a kid (Transformers, Smurfs and now Voltron) back in the lime light almost feels like it justifies my childhood. (Yeah… I know… that’s sad).
Voltron is of course the 5 giant robotic lions who are piloted by humans, that join up together to form the even more giant robots named… you guessed it… VOLTRON!
The good folks over at Empire give us this:
Along with Gordon, Pharrell Williams, Mark Costa and Ford Oelman will front up for producing duties, and while not so much as a screenwriter has yet been mentioned, there is confirmation that the plot will follow five ‘maverick pilots’ who travel to the planet Arus, and learn how to operate the whole shebang. There’ll most likely be a supervillain or an alien threat in there too, but details for the moment are scarce. The business question also remains – will this go up against Transformers’ summer 2007 slot, and since Masters Of The Universe rights are already owned, what’s left, dammit? Jem?!
Don’t get me wrong, The Transformers would kick the hell outta Voltron (I’m reverting to a 13 year old here), but I’m still tickled that this thing is being made. The best part about it (like the Transformers) is that it doesn’t even have to be all that good. Script?!?! Who cares about the script? It’s not like the show had great dialouge or plots (most of the time the Transformers were just fighting over Energon Cubes anyway). No… all we need from Voltron or the Transformers is wicked looking robots, big explosions, lots (and I do mean LOTS) of action and some big cities getting demolished from the giant battles. Do that… and we’ll be happy. How hard can that be?
