‘Superman’ and ‘The Witcher’ actor Henry Cavill’s chances of starring in a potential hardcore ‘Warhammer 40K’ series with Amazon MGM Studios may be dwindling a day after initial commitments However, the charismatic star seems to have found another beloved sci-fi project.
As The Hollywood Reporter announced last week, Cavill just signed a new deal with Amazon MGM Studios to star in the live-action film Voltron, based on the popular giant robot series. Lawson Marshall Thurber, director of the successful Netflix film Red Notice and the 2018 feature film Skyscraper, will direct this spirited adaptation, which will roll on camera in Australia starting this fall. It starts spinning.
Exact story details for Voltron have not been announced, but the script was written in collaboration with Thurber and Ellen Shanman. There’s little casting news, but Cavill will be joining up-and-coming co-star Daniel Quinn-Toy in the sci-fi spectacle. Quinn-Toy is a talented young performer who shared the West End stage with Tom Holland in Romeo & Juliet this summer.
Original drawing for Toei Animation’s “Voltron: Guardian of the Universe.” (Image provided by: Toei Animation)
Voltron: Legendary Defender, Netflix’s reboot of the classic ’80s animated Voltron series, is produced by DreamWorks Animation and has steamrolled through eight seasons and 75 episodes since its premiere in 2016. I did. It premiered as a hybrid of hand-drawn and CG. Based on the 1984 American show Voltron: Defenders of the Universe, which was inspired by two Japanese anime series: 1981’s Golion and 1982’s Armored Fleet Dairugger XV This is a work produced by Studio Mir.
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These efforts center on five teenagers brought from Earth during the chaos of an intergalactic conflict to train to become pilots for five robot lions meant to protect the universe from evil. It was done. These five special paladins have the ability to connect with each other to form Voltron, a towering giant robot.
Produced by Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman, World Event Productions’ Bob Kopler, Thurber, and Hobby Films’ David Hoberman, Amazon-MGM Studios will ramp up production on Voltron later this fall.
