Finally, Warner Bros and Mattel have agreed and elected John Stevenson to bring to the big screen the adaptation of the popular cartoon of the eighties, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
John Stevenson has as a background the well-known Kung Fu Panda, the studios movie Dreamworks, nominated this year for Oscar as best animated film. The filmmaker will thus make his debut in live action cinema with the new version of He-Man and Co..
There are still no confirmed actors but I know that the producer will be the tireless Joe Silver and Barry Waldo, a manager of the toy company Mattel, will serve as executive producer. “We want to do a great production. John had such a passion for history that we quickly found ourselves embracing his vision. ", he said enthusiastically Waldo, to the magazine Variety.
He-Man, an extensive franchise that includes comics, toys and cartoons, already had a movie (forgettable by the way) in 1987, where you could see Dolph Lundgren like the blonde haired warrior, to Frank Langella as Skeletonor, her terrible enemy and a novice actress just starting out: Courteney Cox (Monica en Friends).
The history of He-Man is located in Eternia, an imaginary world in which good and evil face in a permanent fight to prevent Skeletonor be made of the kingdom. The remake of 'He-Man and the Masters of the Universe' will be scripted by Justin marks and it still has no date for the start of filming or for its premiere.