He-Man Finds a New Home at Sony

by Elisabeth Rappe Sep 24th 2009 // 8:02AM

Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Sony, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Scripts, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels

I told you that He Man and the Masters of the Universe would find a new home. Mere weeks after being booted out of Warner Bros, Variety reports that the once and future king of Eternia has found a new home at Sony. As you might remember, Joel Silver and Warner Bros were unable to agree on a direction for He-Man, and Mattel promptly took its toys and went elsewhere.

But if you really dug everything to do with Warner Bros' version (which was reportedly titled Greyskull), you'll have some cause for lament. Sony plans on starting with an entirely clean slate, which means John Stevenson will no longer be directing, and that all the script work by Justin Marks and Evan Daugherty will be scrapped. All of those concepts belong to Warner Bros, not Mattel, who was only able to bring Sony the action figure.

One also has to be concerned with just who will be overseeing He-Man's latest incarnation. Escape Artists will be developing the project for Sony, and they've been responsible for The Taking of Pelham 123 remake, Knowing, Seven Pounds, and The Pursuit of Happyness. Without writers, a director, or cast attached, I don't want to predict doom and gloom but is that the kind of resume that screams success for He-Man?

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9-24-2009 @ 10:28AM

C.A. said...

I think it's okay here to predict doom and gloom here. It looks like this project is going to nose dive.

9-24-2009 @ 10:45AM

Stan Winsome said...

The best He-Man projects so far are:

http://www.spike.com/video/cobra-island-rave/2656563

and

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a2505951e5ec5d3011e5ff5bb4e0059

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