New Masters of The Universe script finshed
 

Jeff Wadlow also participated in a podcast for He-Man.org where he discussed how he built maquettes, character designs, visual effects pre-visualization, and cut a trailer for the studio to convince them the job should have been his. Wadlow stated that while he is not officially attached as director, he only took the job rewriting the screenplay with the aim to direct.
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Whether MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE actually happens is anybody's guess, but with Sony on the lookout for potential franchises and a finished screenplay in their hands, the odds are looking better than ever that we will see a new big screen adventure for He-Man.
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you can relax Bay/PD haters one of your childhood franchises is safe. :roll: :P

This has been in development hell for ages. I would love to see a new He-Man film - He-Man was my first love, TMNT's predecessor. TMNT eventually became more important to me but He-Man was first.

I also love the 87 film and screw anyone who says it sucks. Underrated movie.

Very underrated, Nostalgia Critic HATES it!

Don't know who that is, but they have no taste.

Langella nails Skeletor.

The 87 movie is a fun watch, but I'd love to get an actual MOTU movie, and not He-Man and friends travel to earth for the majority of the movie.

A movie based on the new MOTUC canon would be cool, seeing it have a nice mix of all previous Masters iterations.

Yes! SOMEONE who understands!

Oh, there are definitely issues with the movie. I too would rather they had stayed on Eternia, but it's a very fun film. It seemed to be inspired by the New Gods as well, Gary Goddard says as much really.

Yep. I think lots of people do actually like the film though, it just seems trendy to bash it. There have been far worse fantasy films.

Agreed! :) :o

I've only seen Kick-Ass 2 from Wadlow, and I liked that movie so I guess I have no problem with him possibly directing it. A movie based (mostly) on MOTUC canon would be fantastic! There would be enough material for at least a trilogy and then some.

It's biggest flaw is that it isn't really Masters of the Universe movie.

If you can get past that then it's actually a mostly well done film.

It's actually one of the best sci-fi/fantasy films of the 80s if we're being objective.

The cast, acting, costumes, and SFX were all VERY impressive for 1987, especially from a rather notoriously cheap company like Cannon. The music was great, too, despite being a blatant rip/mash of the Star Wars and Superman themes. Except So is almost every super-hero theme ever made since then, they all splice one of those two with Batman and call it a day! Just try and deny it!

Also... and this is so NOT a popular opinion, but... It honestly looks better than Jedi. I said it. It's edited better. It's brighter. The action scenes are less comical, better choreographed, and more "serious". The effects look more realistic, partly because the guys doing MOTU kind of knew their limits and didn't push too hard, whereas if you're not a fanboy you can admit that a lot of Jedi looks pretty damn fake. Jedi had the epic space battles, can't nobody take that away, but the guys at Cannon knew they could never pull that off. The things that BOTH movies do, MOTU honestly does better. Just four years later, but it looks like ten. And as far as movie-closing sword battles go? Luke/Vader had its moments, but ALL the older SW saber battles were clunky as f*ck with little to no grace and they were edited together quite poorly. He-Man/Skeletor actually LOOKS like the epic "final battle" it's supposed to be, even if it's a little on the shorter side.

And, ultimately, knowing what we know now, Langella's Skeletor is the REAL A+ villain - the guy ACTUALLY became the most powerful man in the entire universe for about five minutes, while Vader had to settle for co-ruling a "galaxy" or a few and pretending to be subordinate to a withered old dishrag while he moped inside about his dead Mommy and Girlfriend. Skeletor Plain Don't Give A F*ck. It's not even a contest. He would RUIN Darth Vader. Cartoon Skeletor? No, you're on crack. Langella's Skeletor, though? ALL OVER Darth Vader in the villain category. Let's just be real.

I'm not going to say one underrated classic film of its era can or should outshine "The Trilogy". I mean, I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan. And I didn't come to this conclusion lightly. But I think as far as the definitive sci-fi/fantasy films of the decade go, after watching them each many, MANY times... I recently came to the last conclusion I'd expect, and that's that MOTU is honestly a better movie, on its own, than Jedi. Or, at LEAST, the case could very strongly be made.

Perfect or even a perfect He-Man movie? No, not at all. But people let the fact that it was based loosely on the toys rather than the cartoon and had a script written before the cartoon even existed kind of cloud their opinions on it as a film, along with the fact they had to set it on Earth mostly for budget reasons. Take it as it is, though, and accept the Earth-bound plot as "just another adventure for He-Man and friends", and it's actually... really good. Like seriously. Ignore the show and all that and take it just as its own thing, and it's a REALLY good movie.

It could easily be in the same canon as the original prince Adamless mini-comics. The movie also introduced Saurod and Blade, which both made fantastic action figures. I hope they could make a Golden God Skeletor figure for MOTUC, but I doubt it since even Karg seems not to be getting his own figure.

It's easy enough to say it's canon to the He-Man everyone knows. There just as easily could be a Prince Adam, King Randor, etc., and we just don't see them because the story doesn't reference or show them. "Continuity by omission."

Or its own thing. Y'know, either.

The canon of the movie didn't rally bother me, as Skeletor was pretty much winning as he had captured the Sorceress and had Eternia under his thumb. Adam had to be He-Man full time, or as Mini-Comic wasn't living a double life (iirc)

I didn't know they made a MOTu movie until late 93 or thereabouts when I saw it on TNT. I loved that film, mostly due to Langella's performance as Skeletor. Yeah I'd gladly watch a new MOTU film. I'm also hoping it's set in Eternia and showcase some of the masters. I hope Skeletor's origins are similar to the way they handled them in the Mike Young toon. That was pretty twisted where Hordak basically rips the tissue away from his acid splashed visage, but fitting. I had no idea DC was doing a He Man series. I need to add that to my amazon wishlist too, I guess.