Warner Confirms 'He-Man' Project -- Who the Heck Will They Cast!?
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Warner Brothers, Scripts, Remakes and Sequels
It looks like AICN was right on the money. Almost a week ago, Erik Davis alerted us to the website's claims that Joel Silver would be producing the long-in-development-hell feature adaptation of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, with relative newcomer (and upcoming Voltron writer) Justin Marks churning out a script. Variety has now confirmed it, saying that the producer is working with Mattel to get the adaptation off the ground -- they have to approve an outline for the film to go ahead. So far, the plan is the typical battle of good -vs- evil, and it will be shown with 300-type visual effects.When other girls were watching Strawberry Shortcake in the 80's, I was watching Prince Adam flounce around and call the power of Greyskull, so I'm a fan -- one who is not so sure about this whole idea unless they knock it out of the ballpark. The most recent casting rumors attached Brad Pitt to the role, which would probably make me run for the hills -- not because it's him, but because he's just not He-Man. Then again, there's not many choices out there. Where, oh where have all the action beefcakes gone? So far, I'm with jenk that Jason Lewis is the best bet -- he's less beefy, but definitely has the right look.
But what about the rest of them? Man-At-Arms, Teela and Skeletor? I've sat here for the last ten minutes trying to think up people. I just know there is someone perfect out there for Man-At-Arms, but the best I can come up with is Bill Murray if he got athletic, or Bruce Willis. As for Teela, the only one that seems close enough is Alicia Witt, but I'm not sure that she'd don the outfit and fight skeletal bad guys. Speaking of which -- the only one I'm sure on is Skeletor. Get some guy to run around in the suit, and have it voiced by Jackson Publick (voice of The Monarch and creator of The Venture Bros.). Do you have some better suggestions?
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5-24-2007 @ 8:32PM
kermit_dfrog2002 said...
If they're doing a movie about He-Man, they had all better be huge. The men on He-Man didn't just have muscles, he had big muscles.
I think they'd have to look at the current 'stars' of the WWE. They have the strength and flexibility, some are decent looking. Acting ability might be somewhat lacking, but so would most of the guys they might look at in a gym.
Anything would have to be better then previous attempt at putting He-Man on the big screen.
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5-25-2007 @ 5:53PM
San said...
This movie could be HUGE if done rightly.
He-Man should NOT be played by a wrestler! I think Paul Walker or Jason Lewis would be ideal.
Man-At-Arms could be played by Tom Selleck (is he still acting)
Teela could be played by Mandy Moore, Lindsay Lohan or Jessica Alba
Skeletor should be played by Willem Daffoe or get Frank Langella to reprise his role from the 88 movie.
Hopefully this movie is a success, they can make it a trilogy, that would be awesome.
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5-25-2007 @ 8:15PM
Haggis said...
I'm curious about this project. It will either be really awesome, or even worse than the 1980's movie we got that had almost nothing to do with the cartoon other than name. I think Brad Pitt is going to suck it up. He's just NOT He-Man.
Monika you get props just for wanting to put Jackson Publick in anything.
Although commenter #1: putting wrestlers in ANYTHING is a bad idea. , and #2's choices weren't that great either, sorry. Paul Walker? He can't act his way out of William Shatner's paper bag. And Lindsay Lohan in any movie automatically gets ignored.
A Jessica Alba "Teela" is the most awesome idea ever. The movie could just be her standing in that costume for 90 minutes and I'd still pay for it.
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6-11-2007 @ 4:57PM
DJH said...
This cartoon is still immensely popular!
a few months ago 80stees.com released the results of one of their most popular online polls, to select the "Best Cartoon Villain of the 80s". Villains in cartoons such as He-Man, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, The Smurfs, ThunderCats, and Strawberry Shortcake were all in the running for the most evil cartoon villain of the decade and Skeletor won by a huge margin 24% of vote-read about it here:
www.80stees.com/emails/cartoon_villains_poll.asp
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