Rawson Marshall Thurber to direct live-action 'Voltron' film

[ranger_scout]

It looks like the film is finally happening. Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) has signed on to direct a live-action version of Voltron. Warner Bros., Universal, and Amazon are among the six or seven studios and streamers in the mix for the package.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ie-1235117594/

I hope that the production team doesn't make the same mistakes that the Legendary Defender series made as it was reaching its conclusion.

[Leo656]

How do you even sell that after "Power Rangers" already had three movies? "It's Exactly Like Power Rangers, except in outer space and Not-Dumb?"

I mean I'unno. Could be neat. I just don't see how it'd work Now. I always liked Voltron. Didn't catch the newer one they forgot was about giant mechs and thought was all about gay people, though. Heard mixed things. The 80s one was my jam though when I was like 4.

[Sumac]

They could repackage it like a more serious sci-fi. Something closer to Captain Power and Soldiers of Future, rather than Sentai genre.

[sdp]

The Netflix Voltron Legendary Defender is overrated / underrated, it's a mixed bag, excellent animation, excellent designs, it had a full series episode order from the beginning, writers seemed competent. The show is not Voltron enough, I think it would've been better as a new franchise. I wish we had gotten more "voltron moments" in the show but we didn't. It was still a good show just a missed opportunity.

The 2017 power rangers movie is underrated and needed a sequel but at least it succeeded in making power rangers nostalgic again. I won't believe the Voltron movie is going to come out until I see a trailer, it's been in the making for 22 years now, over doing the space angle and not the super sentai would be best for them but then again that's what the 2017 power rangers movie tried to do.

[Sumac]

Tangent, but kind of surprised that Power Rangers movie didn't had a sequel.
I thought Hollywood was predisposed to create them even, if original movie had failed.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Tangent, but kind of surprised that Power Rangers movie didn't had a sequel.
I thought Hollywood was predisposed to create them even, if original movie had failed.

The ONE criticism Hollywood bothers to take to heart is, "It was too serious/not silly enough."

Anything else, they can handwave. "The writing was bad, your movie has plotholes," etc., those things they don't care about, and they'll push forward. If the consensus about why a thing was "bad" is, "It was way too serious," they'll nuke it and start completely over.

I didn't see that one, but I heard a lot of "Power Rangers should be stupid and goofy, this movie isn't stupid and goofy ergo it's terrible." By that notion I was a little intrigued, on account of I never liked MMPR in the first place and so as its own thing the movie might have entertained me, but I get their point.

They probably couldn't figure out a way to do a "goofy" sequel to such a relatively self-serious reboot attempt, and thus found it easier to scrap the entire thing and start over.

Now Voltron... that was always very self-serious in tone so they shouldn't really take the "silly" approach (no matter what anyone thinks of the basic premise of teens in mechs having outer space swordfights with giant aliens). But "Pacific Rim" already exists and that got a very mixed reaction so I'd expect Hollywood to not especially want to play that kind of material "straight" ever again and just lean on "It's got giant monsters, make it goofy."

[AquaParade]

Better than He-Man, so sure.

[Leo656]

No it wasn't you absolute clown.

[Sumac]

Pacific Rim was a serious take on a cheesy material and the result was kind of mixed bag. But the main thing - it was super fan.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Pacific Rim was a serious take on a cheesy material and the result was kind of mixed bag. But the main thing - it was super fan.

The acting segments are very painful, imo. Not sure it was worth it in the end for me. I hope Voltron can nail the character bits as well as the robot action, because no one really has yet. Transformers is painful as well.

Again, either way, it’s better than the He-Man adaption moving forward. Crappy franchise.

[Sumac]

Definitely worth it - since they nailed the main thing - impressive battles between robots and monsters. Everything else was just a window dressing and I'd be surprised if people were going on this movie to see some drama.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Definitely worth it - since they nailed the main thing - impressive battles between robots and monsters. Everything else was just a window dressing and I'd be surprised if people were going on this movie to see some drama.

The human drama is meant to give you a reason to care about the outcome of the fight. Special effects monster mash will only be entertaining for so long. 90 minutes of that, with no emotional anchor isn’t a good time imo.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

The human drama is meant to give you a reason to care about the outcome of the fight. Special effects monster mash will only be entertaining for so long. 90 minutes of that, with no emotional anchor isn’t a good time imo.

I cared, unlike most monster movies or second Pacific Rim.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Sumac

I cared, unlike most monster movies or second Pacific Rim.

That's cool. For me, it's easy to understand why people would expect elements of drama in a film, even if the focus is giant robots. Or furthermore, that if there are elements of drama in the film, they should at least be well done. Otherwise, it's just pebbles of crap in your soup.

But if all it takes is robots smashing each other on-screen for you, more power to you.