[Leo656]

Despite the fact that Netflix still swears it's happening "someday", the Masters of the Universe movie probably has spent more time in "development hell" than anything that's being talked about in the modern era, considering it goes all the way back to 1988 when the sequel to the Dolph Lundgren movie was cancelled. Even if you disregard that, a new movie has been perpetually "in development" since around 2003.

Nearly 20 years, countless scripts and multiple different studios later and there's still no significant traction on it. At one point they got so far as casting Noah Centineo (whoever the f*ck that is) to play He-Man, and it allegedly would have started filming last year if the pandemic never happened. But nobody wanted that guy to play He-Man and nothing concrete about the script ever surfaced, so most people are of the opinion we dodged a bullet with its cancellation... or "postponement", officially.

The only things we know for sure are the guy Noah is no longer involved, they started completely over from scratch on a new script (again), and that "The Powers That Be" swear that it's still going to happen, "someday".

Frankly, I don't see it ever getting made, and honestly I'm fine with that. There's like zero chance Hollywood in its current form could make a good MOTU movie. And whatever movie they made, the fanbase would hate it anyway. They're damned either way with that franchise; whether they try to play it straight like the comics or go super-goofy like the original cartoon, you'd have half the audience saying it was perfect and half saying it was garbage. That fanbase is almost as schizophrenic and bipolar as TMNT fans. So not only do I not think they'll ever get that movie made, I'll be kind of relieved if they don't.

Metal Gear Solid is another one, but I think there's actually been some traction on that one fairly recently. That thing might actually get made, although I'm dreading it.