20th Century Fox recently axed its live-action adaptation of 80’s cartoon classic, Voltron: Defender Of The Universe, leaving many fans of the series worried that they’d never see their favorite lion-bodied robot hit the silver screen. Well, you can chillax Voltron fanboys: your holy grail of 80’s cartoons isn’t quite DOA yet.
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Film O Filia reports that Voltron is being eyed by financing and production venture Relativity Media (owned by super-producer Ryan Kavanaugh), which is currently in negotiations for rights to the film. Relativity plans to green-light Voltron under a more modest budget, using the same green-screen tech employed by director Zack Snyder to make his sword and sandals epic 300 look so cool.
Mark Gordon (The Day After Tomorrow) and Jordan Wynn are producing Voltron, and a script has been written by Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li). A director has yet to be announced.
And now, a few plot details:
“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.”
Pretty much the Voltron we all know and love.
Are you psyched that new life is being breathed into Voltron: Defender Of The Universe? Or did you get your fill of CGI robots when you saw Transformers? Let us know what you think.
Source: Film O Filia
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hope they pay fox off before going forward with this one….hate to see another lawsuit….and can’t wait for this one….always wondered what it would like like on the big screen…hoepfully soon we will find out….
This is NOT good news. This movie is straying too far from the elements that made Voltron what it was. They either need to fix the script, or let the project die.
Hopefully they wont make the Lions look like Bionicles too. =[
While I agree with you on that point, Wade, I can’t say that’s the biggest problem this movie has at the moment. That dishonor lies with the script.
I think you’re all looking at this the wrong way. This is the creation of Voltron, which means they can place any team in there to pilot them. If you watched the old cartoons, in the first cartoon the five pilots were dispatched to loacte where Voltron went down. It had already been piloted by another team. They were just sent to locate what happened to it and get it back up and running. There was another team before Keith’s. Starting at the beginning is a good start.
Essex, I had not thought of that. I like that idea.
Essex, that might be a valid approach, but that’s not what they’re doing. They’re using, nominally anyway, the same characters from the original series. That would make for an incredible coincidence if you had two teams of pilots with the same names.
In addition, the idea was that Voltron was a legend, not truly confirmed until they found him. If Voltron had been on Earth, and not Arus, there would have been records confirming its existence.
This movie is poorly written, and it is not faithful to the source material. Regardless of what you’ve heard about it, this script, as it currently stands, does not come across the way you’re trying to look at it.
yeah voltron needs to originate from Arus… the lions need to crash land from on earth from Arus.. this guy sums it up well: http://www.zohebshah.com
And Haggar needs to magically seperate the mighty GoLion (oops) into 5 lionbots. Sven needs to survive instead of die a horrible death (GoLion). And it must all happen on and around Arus and planet Doom. No Earth unless they have asides to Galaxy Garrison. Maybe show Dairugger XV (oops Voltron I) and Albegas (er Voltron II) for geekness in vid screen monitors.
Just an idea…..
But first I’d rather see an actual Kidou Senshi Gundam 0079 movie, not G Saviour like but actually faithful to the anime, manga and Bandai kits. The video game CG cut scenes are always so awesome, they can do that in a live action movie.
And please don’t let anyone else but the Japanese produce that Gundam film.
I’m a big fan of classic anime, especially all the original robotech (all 3 wars), but even as a kid Voltron was dorky to me…sorry fanboys
hey VIC ! !!!!
any news ?
or did they scrap voltron from the big screen ?
hello ……………………………….VIC !
news about voltron ?????????????
Sorry Frank, there’s been no news on this at all AFAIK.
Vic
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