Voltron Movie Back on Track
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the live action Voltron feature film, which was originally being set up over at New Line in the months leading up to the release of Michael Bay’s Transformers. Last summer there was speculation that Queer Eye for the Straight Guy director Max Makowski had been chosen to direct from a script by the “legendary” Justin Marks, but it was never officially confirmed as far as I know. Now this week it looks like the rights have changed hands and things are moving forward once again.
The Risky Biz Blog reports that producers Charles Roven (The Dark Knight, Get Smart), Richard Suckle (The International, Scooby Doo) and Steve Alexander have acquired the rights to Voltron from Mark Gordon Productions and may be looking to set it up at Warner Brothers. It seems inevitable that a Voltron movie will happen, it’s just a matter of whether or not they can get the budget and the talent needed to turn it into a success. I still think a lot of people are going to wait and see how G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra fares before they fully commit to more projects based on ’80s cartoons. But hey, all movies with giant robots are now guaranteed hits, right?
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Damn straight! I mean Voltron is not just an 80’s cartoon it’s also Go Lion a super robot 80’s Anime. And those aren’t just giant robots, they are giant lion robots. If you’re doing Voltron; you’ve got to set it thousands of years in the future with a Galaxy Alliance and Planet Doom and Robeasts and all that. I swear if they set it on present day Earth with a handful of D-bags finding acient robots then that will be sad … and also Power Rangers, which this is not.
Posted by Ian on July 20th, 2009After Transformers… I just do not know about this movie and I actually think GI Joe may be better than Transformers 2.
I still think Robotech would work better and fell more real than Voltron and Transformers combined. Maybe it is that the robot designs seem more functional.
Posted by BigHungry on July 20th, 2009Remember when many people thought Cloverfield was Voltron?
Posted by Swarez on July 20th, 2009“I saw it! It’s huge! It’s a lion!”
Robotech OR Macross? Yes, that would be a good movie or maybe a good live action mini-series. For Voltron I think the key is that they make it fun. This is what I feel they should have done with GI Joe. Like Greg and Jay said on the podcast a handful of episodes back, just get some actors and throw on the costumes of the cahracters and set it in the 80’s and have fun with it like an 80’s action movie (Firewalker, Delta Force, etc.) For Voltron you got giant robot lions they are super (and thus functionality is out the window) as such the goal should be something that is great specacle and a real throwback to adventure/sci-fi movies. They do this well and it will be awesome.
Posted by Ian on July 21st, 2009After Transformers and GI JOE (yeah, only saw the trailers) I’m not so excited by this.
If this movie is made, it should only be actual beginnings to set the story. No fucking prequels 5 years from now. Get a feel for effects and story line NOW! Like how they choose their obviously young pilots. Midichlorians anybody?
Posted by Tomas on July 21st, 2009Why make these cartoons live action at all. Why not make adult oriented animated updates instead. I never watched Transformers, G.I. Joe, Voltron, Robotech hoping that someday hollywood would make live action versions of them that throws out everything you enjoyed about these shows when I was younger.
Posted by J on July 21st, 2009Even after the lackluster Tranformers 2 I still wanna see this.
Posted by Matt Keith on July 21st, 2009I’m hoping for the best Matt, as this was one of my fave cartoons growing up.
Posted by Tomas on July 21st, 2009If they used that same theme that’d be awesome.
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