Video Describes What David Goyer’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Remake Could Have Been
A feature film, live-action reboot of The Masters of the Universe cartoon series was announced in 2017 with The Dark Knight scribe David Goyer attached to write and direct the film. Then, in 2018, mere weeks before Sony was set to begin production, Goyer abruptly exited the project due to prior engagements; he was quickly replaced by the Nee Brothers, Aaron and Adam.
The folks at HN Network recently sat down with Alien: Covenant concept artist Carlos Huante, but the conversation drifted towards Goyer’s Masters of the Universe, to which he had also been briefly attached. He was able to describe Goyer’s vision for the reboot; check out a summary in the video embedded at the top of the article.
Here’s an excerpt:
“The director’s script was big and the studio didn’t want to fund that movie and so the director quit… He was great [Goyer] I loved where he was going with that story it was great fun, but once that went away we got let go too.
“I’m not going to talk too much about it [in great detail], I know they’re making it still but I’ll tell you it was… just the story of Greyskull and that sort of thing and there was some really cool stuff in there. I don’t think they’re gonna make that version. I know they’re not going to, it was like a Lord of The Rings film, it was huge! And there was all kinds of stuff in there, you could have divided up that script into three movies and it would have worked. That’s how big it was. I would have loved to have spent a lot of time on that one. It was a more fantastic version of Lord of The Rings, is what I’ll say. It’s a more colorful and fantastical version of Lord of The Rings, but it felt as real as Lord of The Rings. It was very real but very far-out. It was a final return to science fiction fantasy where we’ve only had one, Star Wars.”
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