Grayskull: Masters of the Universe

[bell110]

What do you guys think of a He-Man movie? Any casting ideas?

[ChickenScratch]

He-Man would be great if done correctly. With movies like LOTR, 300, Pathfinder, Hero, House Of Flying Daggers, I can see them doing something visually stunning.

I would prefer to see a Conan movie before He-man though, since He-man's just a kid friendly adaptation of Conan by Mattel.

[forsakenfilmz]

This movie needs to happen. It's a movie for us kids. I'm 33. they need to makeit for the real fans. Kids today dont know it like we do.

[TBadora]

Originally Posted by forsakenfilmz

This movie needs to happen. It's a movie for us kids. I'm 33. they need to makeit for the real fans. Kids today dont know it like we do.

AMEN, brother.

[Moviefan2k4]

I remember watching the old cartoons when I was maybe 8 or so. I later saw the Dolph Lundgren version, which was just...weird. The idea of telling the Grayskull story with today's effects...if nothing else, it could definitely be interesting. Time will tell, I suppose.

[Darth Rockwell]

Transformers laid the ground work, G.I. Joe and Speed Racer have to deliver and then the foundation will be set. I think 80s toons are the new comic book movies.

[Jake Cassidy]

He-Man would be awesome. I want a Bravestarr movie.

[Creature SH]

What the rumor mill spat out thus far sounded rather awful. I'd prefer "no new movie" over a bastardization.

[ChickenScratch]

Michael O'hearn from World's Finest could be He-man.

[Jordacar]

Here's your HE-MAN: Chris Jericho

[Dr. Fate]

Originally Posted by forsakenfilmz

This movie needs to happen. It's a movie for us kids. I'm 33. they need to makeit for the real fans. Kids today dont know it like we do.

Damn straight!

Ideas -

King Randor (He-Man's dad) - Gerard Butler, Vincent Regan, Jim Caviezel, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana, Dolph Lundgren (1987 He-Man)

Man-At-Arms - Vincent Regan [again]

Skeletor - Ron Perlman (just because he works the prosthetic make up bit well)

Sorceress of Grayskull - Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Pfeiffer, Marcia Cross

Queen Marlena (He-Man's mom) - Lucy Lawless

Evil-Lynn - Rachel Weisz, Angelina Jolie, Kate Beckinsale

[Jordacar]

King Randor: Jonathan Frakes


Queen Marlena: Connie Nielsen (Gladiator)



Man-at-Arms: Jeff Bridges

[Dr. Fate]

Originally Posted by Jordacar

King Randor: Jonathan Frakes


Queen Marlena: Connie Nielsen (Gladiator)



Man-at-Arms: Jeff Bridges

Not sure about Bridges, but Frakes & Nielsen I'm cool with.

[Jordacar]

That's okay, I've got the perfect guy to fill out BEAST MAN: Brian Steele (Hellboy, Underworld, Doom, Blade Trinity)

[K.B.]

MASTERS DEGREE Leaked online, an animatic used to promote a live-action treatment of "He-Man And the Masters Of The Universe" that stalled in development. Using Kaare Andrews illustrations… ooh…

From comicbookresouces.com


link...

http://www.filebam.com/download/3898...e_720p30_2.mov

to download

[Creature SH]

Actually, this is something Kaare Andrews did on his own to promote the idea. It's nothing any studio had a single finger in.

[Dr. Fate]

Originally Posted by Creature SH

Actually, this is something Kaare Andrews did on his own to promote the idea. It's nothing any studio had a single finger in.

Yeah I heard he was interested in it.

I think this is the 3rd He-Man thread I've seen; they always seem to disappear.

[forsakenfilmz]

Originally Posted by Dr. Fate

Yeah I heard he was interested in it.

I think this is the 3rd He-Man thread I've seen; they always seem to disappear.

Yes but these posts and threads will always come back!!!! Masters rule. They dont make shows and toys like they did when we were young. We all had imaginations and played out storys. Kids today forget it! It's cell phone and computers. Hollywood is lucky us real fans(He-man, Gijoe) don't make the movie for them the right way!!!!!
YO damn Joe to all that to!!!!!

[Psionic Force]

Found this over at IESB.net ... VERY exciting. There is even a video presentation of what it may look like and it looks kick ass! You have to go to the link to view the video at the bottom!

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...3580&Itemid=99

Full Story:

Just days after Mark Millar openly told fans around the world that he wants to take a crack at Superman, comic book writer and filmmaker Kaare Andrews (Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, X-Men) is ready to pitch He-Man and we have the video presentation to prove it.

Readers of this site know that I am a huge He-Man fan. Looking back at the original TV show I agree that it was campy and a bit cheesy but our memories of the show are far different. When I recall the show I remember being that 10 year old kid who was transported to Eternia, I would play with my action figures as I watched the cartoons, we imagined bigger and greater battles.
I became a storyteller when I played with my action figures, as our bedrooms became battlefields, as we spent countless of hours emerged in that world.
Now as an adult I remember He-Man and the Masters of the Universe as something more than just a toy and cartoon series. It was Lord of the Rings and Star Wars combined.
Now Warner Bros. along with Joel Silver is getting ready to make their vision of He-Man. Will screenwriter Justin Marks get the story right? I hope so, I hope he understands that He-Man/MOTU is special to millions of fans around the world.
What scares me is that it appears to me that Joel Silver is not a fan of “genre,” he’s a business man before a filmmaker.
He-Man is also special for Kaare Andrews and he has made a very cool animated presentation/pitch of his vision for Masters of the Universe.
Kaare has this to say bout He-Man:

Where I grew up we didn’t get He-Man on television. We had to rent them on VHS. It made the show special… gave each episode an importance. I watched them mostly when I was staying with my Dad. I’m not sure why. Maybe my Mom didn’t have a VCR yet. I had a lot of the toys. My favorites were Battle Armor He-Man and Battle-Ram. I had He-Man bed sheets. I had the Paninni He-Man sticker book. I bought the comicbooks. My Mom sewed me a He-Man Halloween costume. And when I was supposed to ‘grow out’ of my toys my little brother carried on the tradition. I don’t believe in trying to intellectualize childhood experiences. Obviously it had something to do with power fantasies, imagination and storytelling. But I prefer to think of that time in simple words. Because simple is powerful. And He-Man was the most powerful in the Universe.

He gets it, I hope that Warner Bros. gets it too. Kaare put this presentation together in one weeks time and out of his own pocket, pretty bad ass.

[Mr. Wooden Alligator]

Muscles for He-Man and Randor!

---Morzan

[Dr. Fate]

Originally Posted by Morzan

Muscles for He-Man and Randor!

---Morzan

Ditto.

[Lord Blackbolt]

with the success of Transformers...and to a lesser extent TMNT...I think more old cartoons will make it to the big screen. They will take over for the Comic book movie fad for a while.

And with GI-JOE coming soon too....I can't wait for Johnny Quest and Thundarr....Thundarr is cooler than He-man to me. He was a mix of He-man and Luke Skywalker

[Shuley]

I used to be a huge He-Man fan.. I'd watch that cartoon every day after school at 4:30pm.

[Dr. Fate]

Let's hope it all works out.

[He-Man]

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...3715&Itemid=99


Justin Marks Talks He-Man



Written by IESB Staff
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Toyfare magazine chats with Justin marks about his vision for He-Man that will hopefully make it to the big screen.



In the new issue of Toy fare out this week (who stills buys magazines?) screenwriter Justin Marks talks about what he has planned for He-Man and Skeletor.

I have to say that we here at the IESB have been hearing some horrible rumors about MOTU. After reading this interview with Justin, it did give me some hope, it appears that he gets it (hopefully), fingers crossed.

TOYFARE: How did you get involved with writing the He-Man script?

JUSTIN MARKS: He-Man came about as a result of a mutual collaboration with [co-screenwriter] Neil Ellice and the guys at Silver Pictures. We came together and married a take that we all really loved and that we felt would be true to Eternia for the first time. And we campaigned and pushed-everything short of getting on my hands and knees begging-for Mattel to hear it, and they did. We got in the room and we basically spoke through not only one movie, but three movies, all the way down through our dreams for the titles for the second and thrid movies and which characters appeared when.

Do you think the public is going to have a hard time accepting He-Man as an action hero?

A lot of people think of He-Man and they think of that guy with the bob haircut and the Arnold Schwarzenegger archetype and laugh him off, but those of us who grew up on him, we don't laugh about He-Man at all. There are great ideas in there that we've never seen on film...and hopefully we soon will.

Is he still going to be called He-Man?

[Laughs] We're doing something very interesting with that. But...yeah. Obviously you can't make a He-Man movie and be afraid of the word "He-Man." You have to get into there. But I think fans will be very pleased when they see how "He-Man" is spoken.

Do you have a villain yet?

Oh, it's a Skeletor movie. Obviously we can only speak in broad strokes, but how about this? Thus far, at least, there are no invented new characters plopped into it-and if we and Mattel have our way there will never be. We're talking about the He-Man mythology. So what we're talking about doing, in the same way as Batman Begins, we're going back to the original thing, let's build it from the ground up again. How can we find our way in? How can we jump into Adam's life at an interesting point where new audiences will respect him? It's an Adam origin story, and it's a Skeletor origin story. We want to see where both of them come from and how they got that way. If we don't see the humanity and the truth in what Skeletor's trying to do, then the story's not compelling.

Are there any wishes you would have for casting?

Let me just say we don't want wreslters. [Laughs] I'm not saying he should be He-Man, but Michael Biehn is my all-time favorite actor. You go to Hicks or Kyle Reese, and James Cameron created that action hero type, and I feel like I always write with the mindset of that type of hero who doesn't exist these days. He's that guy who, if he took a weapon and said, "Follow me," I'd be right behind him.

How are you going to incorporate all the..let's say disparate elements of the He-Man mythology?

He-Man is sword-and-sandals meets science fiction. If you avoid it and just try to make it sword and sandals, then it becomes a boring movie. If you just try to make it science fiction, it's going to be really kitschy and weird, and it's not going to be true to He-Man. You have to make it both. So we have to come up with specific ideas, grounded, that would spawn a world that was people carrying around swords, and yet, guys like Tri-Klops running around with his spinning visor and this sort of nano-technological way about him. What is the sorcery that can create stuff like that?

So you're really sticking fairly closely to the original world?

There's some stuff going around...we should clear that up. There's some rumor spreading that he's a soldier in the Iraqi war. Where did they get that? This is an Eternian movie and it's a story about an Eternian hero. We're not going to Earth, here. We're not going to the modern world. We're not going to a strip mall in the Valley. [Laughs] By the way, I think there are really great things about the original Masters of the Universe.

What kind of questions?

If you remember, He-Man [toys], very early on, had two halves of the sword-Skeletor had half, He-Man had half and you could clip them together. And that was discarded by the cartoon. And I'm not sure if I can tell you but we finally got the answer to [why there are two halves], because it'll be something that I think can affect the movie.

So Mattel has been pretty helpful to work with, then?

Mattel has been really great when we say, "Look, we need something for this scene, something along the lines of this." And they usually have stuff in their library that's like, "No, it should be like this," and we're like, "Great!" So it's been really fan-friendly in that regard. When this movie comes out-and hopefully some day it will, because things look really stacked in its favor after Transformers-people will watch this movie and say, "I can't believe it took this long for a He-Man movie to get to the screen," because of how naturally the original material suits itself to a great, Lord of the Rings-scale-and yet high-tech-cool movie.