'He-Man' Movie Lands New Writer
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If you aren't a fan of screenwriter Justin Marks (and Erik Davis wasn't, calling him "the man they brought on to f*ck up He-Man"), you might be glad at this news, as he's apparently off the Warner Bros remake. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio is bringing on newcomer Evan Daugherty to work his magic on a new draft of Grayskull. It's a big break for the man, as he only has the unproduced, Black List-hailed Shrapnel to his credit.THR notes that the studio sees Grayskull as a gritty fantasy, and recasts the pageboy prince as a humble soldier named Adam, who sets off to find his destiny and winds up in the land of Eternia. There he encounters Skeletor, who is raising a technological army in the hopes of eradicating magic forever. Back in 2007, Marks was struggling to find a way to combine the cartoon's mix of swords, sorcery, and sci-fi: "You have to make it bothWe have to come up with specific ideas, grounded, that would spawn a world that was people carrying around swords, and yet, guys like Tri-Klops running around with his spinning visor and this sort of nano-technological way about him. What is the sorcery that can create stuff like that?"
Clearly, whatever way he found to combine it didn't meet to Warner Bros liking, though you might remember that Latino Review loved it. Marks' script was dead in the water before John Stevenson picked it back up, so it'll be interesting to see what becomes of the story hailed as a combination of Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, and Batman Begins.
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5-13-2009 @ 12:46PM
Richard Ott said...
If this He-Man movie ever gets finished, as a hardcore
fan of the 1983-'86 cartoon series, rest assured that
by the power of Greyskull, I'll have the power to make
this movie the #1 film at the box office if it's released.
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5-13-2009 @ 1:10PM
Bert said...
Great, another childhood memory screwed up by Hollywood. What's next, a re-telling of "The Breakfast Club"?
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5-13-2009 @ 1:29PM
filmsuki said...
Let's just hope it looks something like He-man. The transformation sequence could look pretty cool with all the fx these days.
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5-13-2009 @ 2:39PM
Some guy not that interested said...
Nothing against Dolph or Langella, but really, how bad can they really screw up this concept for a movie after Masters of the Universe??
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5-14-2009 @ 5:18PM
Kaeli said...
I read somewhere that the "Masters of the Universe" script that produced that atrocity of a film (that I hesitate to admit I own) was originally going to be a "New Gods" film, based on the Jack Kirby 'fourth world' characters.
Watch the movie with this in mind... Skeletor = Darkseid, He-Man = Orion, fill in other New Gods where applicable, and it actually makes a lot more sense.
Now to this new project... I'm remaining cautious until the script actually gets somewhere, but I'm not liking what I'm hearing thus far. Sigh.
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5-16-2009 @ 10:59AM
BRIANK said...
THE JUSTIN MARKS SCRIPT SEEMED MORE INTERESTING... PRINCE ADAM BEING A SOLDIER FINDING HIS WAY TO ETERNIA?? HE'S FROM ETERNIA! HOW CAN HE FIND HIS WAY. AT LEAST MARK'S SCRIPT WENT INTO DETAIL ABOUT HOW SKELETOR CAME ABOUT AND SEEMED MORE HARDCORE. THIS CRAP THAT WARNER BROTHERS IS COMING UP WITH SHOULD JUST DISAPPEAR. IF YOU CAN'T REPLICATE A GOOD VERSION THAT WILL APPEAL ACROSS ALL BOARDS THEN YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE THE MOVIE AT ALL.
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5-28-2009 @ 9:04AM
ryan said...
I agree that they should stick to the original storyline. The original series didn't have to explain the mix of magic and technology. it just was and people loved it. I have a feeling if they didn't like Justin Marks script they are going to ruin a classic and turn it into the common remake movie w/ a lot of special effects but horrible story line. He man is not from Earth! Stop ruining the awesome original and just build on it.