In a move that has many children of the 80’s cheering, a live action Voltron Movie may be in the works.
Voltron first appeared in comic form in the 1985 Voltron #1 from Modern Comics. Much like Harley Quinn’s first appearance, there is a Voltron Lotor’s Secret Weapon
book and tape that came out before the “comic book” appearance.
From Comicbook.com
Voltron has been going under a resurgence of lately, with the popular Netflix animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender picking up a second season soon after its first launched. DreamWorks Animation, who produce the series, were originally also in possession of the Live Action writes to Voltron, and when they were acquired by Universal, it was officially moved over to their live action department.
The film will be written by David Hayter, Deadline confirmed Friday. The writer is no stranger to big screen adaptations of genre properties, of course. He wrote the screenplays for the first two X-Men films, as well as Watchmen. He’s also an accomplished voice actor, having done voices in Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Marvel Heroes, CW’s The Flash series (as King Shark), and most famously as Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series.
Universal, interestingly, has only commissioned the script so far, and not actually committed to making the movie. Basically, they want to see how the script is and go from there. Of course, they may also be waiting to see how 2017’s Power Rangers reboot goes for Lionsgate. The two properties have some striking similarities, after all, as they both feature a group of young (or mostly young in Voltron’s case) kids chosen to pilot animal-based robots that combine to form one, ultra-powerful robot. The similarities mostly end there, of course, and are just superficial, but it’s close enough in Hollywood terms to be an issue.
Heard about this earlier in the year. Good to know it’s finally being made. I have my nice NM #1 waiting for the day it will get sent out for grading. Watching Voltron, transformers, and saint seiya where the show’s I would watch when I was a kid.
I would love to see it on the big screen. Loved the Netflix series and love the original. This was one of my cartoons I grew up watching next to Transformers, GI Joe, He-Man and Gobots. Yes I did say Gobots, lol.
Hmmmm…More spec on 80’s icons..I would love to see this happen but Robotech has been talked about for years…Hope this doesn’t fall into the same hole. Regardless, Voltron #1’s are pretty cheap. Still have the one I bought when it first came out. I did find an open set of the book and tape for cheap so I figured why not. Kind of a 80’s cool factor even if a movie never gets made.
I love cassettes. This was a cool little thing.
Same, I still have my old 80’s boom box so I will be listening to it when it gets here….If it still works that is!
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I have got one or two of those 1st app. sitting in a longbox somewhere.
on a scale of 1 to 10 how #awesomesauce is the Netflix show? and I always snag the modern comics voltron #1s when I see em. blind adam out