Friday
Oct172008
Friday, October 17, 2008 at 2:06AM By the Power of Grayskull: New 'He-Man' Movie Hits the Skids
Did you know they were making a new
He-Man
movie? To me, the whole thing sounds silly. In fairness, so did a
Transformers movie at first. 
The reasons, seemingly, have very little to do with the product. After all, El Mayimbe says the new He-Man script is one of the best he's read all year, and he reads a lot scripts. Instead, the issues seem to be at the corporate level, specifically that Warner Bros. didn't really feel too strongly about it in the first place, and that the executives who were shepherding He-Man for Silver Pictures (Joel Silver's production company) jumped ship and signed on at New Regency and nobody else has really taken the reins. Could it come back? I suppose it could. The script is out there and if it's a quarter as good as it's made out to be, someone will pay to make the film. With the resurgence of 80s animation from Transformers to G.I. Joe, it's bound to happen in some form or another. We just might wait a couple more years.
Reader Comments (3)
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
This news totally sucks! He-Man (as per the "new" script sounding phenomenal!
Matrix meets Lord of The Rings!
It's a shame, since the garbled original movie, the he-man franchise has suffered. Even the 2002 animated series - which is so incredibly smart, well animated and brilliant - didn't take hold. (well, the toys didn't, and that's what "counts" supposedly.)
This totally sucks. Really.
Warner Bros. You guys are fuckin' idiots!!! I know you... I've worked with you in the past, and all I got to say is... You're a bunch of pussy scallywags. You are a bunch of no-talent douche-bag nut handling fuck sticks!!! WB's You fucks are so fucking stupid. You guys must work for fuckin' Skeletor!!! You guys must be in cahoots with Hordak or fuckin' King Hiss!!! I am furious over this shit! I've been waiting 3 year now for this piece of shit to come to light. Through the ridiculous John Woo bullshit, through the announcement of Mark's script, and now this unforgivable act of treason. If you don't wanna make this picture, someone else will you fucks! But in the meantime you SUCK MY FUCKIN' DICK!!! I pissed off now...FUCK!!!
I wouldn't post with the strong language used above, but I am totally with you John. The Mark's script sounded so good that I stopped reading it so as not to ruin the ending. I am a huge MOTU fan, and with the announced release of 80's projects like G.I. Joe and Voltron I do not understand how a MOTU movie could be shelved. Maybe they want to make a Smurfs movie first? Give me a break. Transformers was an excellent movie, but the storyline for MOTU has so much more potential it isn't even comparable. As long as they don't kill it with wrestlers, MOTU (set in Eternia) could be the creepiest, most action packed, darkest, and intelligent epic movie ever produced. There are so many levels to the MOTU universe that were completely removed from the first feature film. With the 300 CGI technology, and 20+ years to decide what makes a good epic movie you couldn't ask for a better good vs evil platform than MOTU. Skeletor in my opinion could be one of the greatest villians ever concieved (if not thrust into the bumbling, "campy" role like the first cartoon.) If you went dark and power-hungry with that character (mix in the scorcery and technology) he easily becomes one of the greatest villians of all time. I don't mind if they take their time to get it right, but don't tell me Rainbow Bright and the Care Bears make better Hollywood fodder that MOTU. If you are going to live in the past and re-make pop culture properties, then why not choose the one that "HAS THE POWER!"