>10-year-old Prince Adam who crashed to Earth in a spaceship and was separated from his magical Power Sword—the only link to his home on Eternia. After tracking it down almost two decades later, Prince Adam is whisked back across space to defend his home planet against the evil forces of Skeletor. But to defeat such a powerful villain, Prince Adam will first need to uncover the mysteries of his past and become He-Man: the most powerful man in the Universe!
>Amazon MGM has dated the Mattel film for a June 5, 2026 worldwide theatrical release.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/masters-universe-movie-theatrical-release-date-1235888303/
any chance it will be good? synopsis makes me worried.
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Let it die, for frick's sake.
I've enjoyed every recent incarnation of MOTU, to different degrees. I'm pretty happy with how things are going. Room for improvement, but still, things have been fun.
So frick and
let it die tastless homosexual
Let it die, for frick's sake.
Knight did a solid job with Bumblee. The opening especially looked and felt like what fans had been wanting. Hope he can do the same for MOTU
*Bumblebee
God that opening was good. Why couldn't that new animated movie just be this instead?
One large action scene?
That's the question I have about most of the big-budget modern MCU films - if you're going to pour all these million into CG why not just have the thing be fully animated from scratch, why have live actors at all?
Other than because they're celebrities and because people will go "oh it's just a cartoon, who cares" and not go see it, because of the stigma animation has in the west as a kiddie medium
1. America has not been weaned off its "animation is for kids" belief.
2. Mattel had a three-pronged attack plan. (A) Kevin Smith's cartoon aimed at fans of the original show who want a continuation that's "serious" but doesn't ditch things like Orko or the cyborg cowboy full of more and more guns. (B) The "for kids" CGI reboot that was meant to bring in a new generation. (C) The live action movie, which was meant to draw in the normies. Normies don't watch animated action movies, they watch Michael Bay's Transformers.
It's still funny to me that the best of the He-Man shows ended up being the toyetic "for kids" CG one, by a landslide.
Honestly I thought it was way weaker than She-Ra and even Revolution. It started well, but holy shit it nosedived in the final eps. The whole plot with Krass betraying the others was pants-on-head moronic, Roid-Rage He-Man was a terrible final act for the main character, and the whole thing felt rushed - like they wanted to fit 60 eps of worldbuilding and plot into their 26-ep show.
>She-Ra
She-Ra was a dumpsterfire whose brave and inspiring message is "it's okay if you commit universal genocide as long as you're a lesbian and have a TRAGIC PAST™." Revolution, meanwhile, was built on a foundation of lives and made with seeming hate for the source material.
Incorrect on all counts.
Sucks that they switched around with his origin to make it more "relatable" by setting it on Earth.
I'm sad we won't get the version from the Nee brothers, they're full blown autists
>Posts the synopsis we've had for weeks if not months
>"First synopsis."
Is this a "Disney's first gay character" thing?
Look, I get the skepticism.
But this is by the guy that directed Kubo and the Two Strings and Bumblebee.
The guy that oversaw Laika.
I'm going to CAUTIOUSLY let myself think it'll be decent enough that I won't watch the end credits thinking "I wish they'd let it die."
Kubo was a case of "Let's kick out the original creator/director", just like how the Laika studio itself was built on kicking Will Vinton out of his own studio after buying it out with Nike money.
I love Will Vinton.
I know I should hate Travis "my daddy gave me this company" Knight.
But there's just no getting around it: on his own, Vinton had ended up doing shitty California Raisins advertisements. Under Knight the revitalized company gave us Coraline and Paranorman. It's not a cut-and-dry good-and-evil situation.
>They're doing the "He-Man goes to the Real World™ because it's a lot cheaper to film there" plot AGAIN 37 years later
Are you fricking serious
It looks like it's the other way around though. They're going the Isekai route of Adam being raised on Earth so when he's on Eternia he'll be acting like a Typical American Everyman, going "Whoah, that cat can talk!" "What do you mean magic is real?" "What the hell is The Power of Greyskull?" "Man, that Evil-Lyn reminds me of my ex-girlfriend!"
>They're going the Isekai route of Adam being raised on Earth so when he's on Eternia he'll be acting like a Typical American Everyman, going "Whoah, that cat can talk!" "What do you mean magic is real?" "What the hell is The Power of Greyskull?" "Man, that Evil-Lyn reminds me of my ex-girlfriend!"
This truly is the worst of all possible timelines, isn't it.
>Acts like this is the first time we got the synopsis
I remember talking about this when Revolution dropped.
I love how this guy's dad owns Nike but he just wants to make his Cinemaphile dreams come true.
>0-year-old Prince Adam who crashed to Earth in a spaceship
and i already hate it
Isn’t he working on his claymation movies?
Kubo and Missing Link were both big flops. Daddy cutback on his allowance.
>son of the founder of Nike
Travis Knight has to be a legitimate contender for the biggest nepo baby of all-time.
He's a huge nepobaby, but he's one of the good ones.
There's going to be a movie now? Is this why the CG He-Man had to die off? For this?
>now
That was always the plan. See
PLACE YOUR BETS
WILL THERE BE ANOTHER "Forgiven" GIRL?
Why can't he just be fricking born in eternia and have the entire fricking movie take place there? I mean for fricks sake, it's basically just a generic fantasy land. why does it have to be a fricking "what if he man was... in the big apple????"
>why does it have to be a fricking "what if he man was... in the big apple????"
Because it's a lot cheaper to film there
>it's a lot cheaper to
It's actually more expensive to literally film in NY state, not to mention NYC.
It sounds like the movie takes place largely 'in space' - why not wait until there's a teaser trailer or at least on set pictures before b***hing? It's not you can't have absolutely nothing else to b***h about that is based on real, legitimate actual material that exists versus simply an announcement? Do you know how much shit gets announced that never happens?
As others said, they're going the Isekai route so the movie has a character going "why's there a talking cat?" so other characters can provide infodumps in response.