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Let's Go, Voltron!
Move over, Optimus Prime, the defender of the universe is back and headed to the big screen.
With Transformers dominating the box office, 20th Century Fox-based shingle New Regency is ready to resurrect Voltron: Defender of the Universe, another popular robot-centric cartoon, comic book and toy line from the 1980s.
Producer Mark Gordon has been developing a live-action adaptation of Voltron for the past three years after acquiring the rights from Animus Films. But the project languished on the drawing board until Michael Bay's similar-themed Transformers touched off a new Hollywood love affair with super automatons by banking $600 million worldwide and counting.
The original animated Voltron series aired in 1984 and was based on a hit Japanese anime called GoLion. It followed five young space explorers—Keith, Lance, Pidge, Hunk and Sven (yes, Sven)—who seek out and command variously colored robot lions, which unite to form the giant sword-wielding mecha robot named Voltron.
The Voltron Force, as the team was called, protected the planet Arus and its princess, Allura, from the terrorizing minions of Planet Doom led by the evil King Zarkon and his deadly Robeasts.
The program was less violent than its Asian counterpart, but was notable for its attempts at serious drama, such as Sven suffering a serious injury inflicted by the witch Haggar (he died in the original Japanese 'toon), leading Allura to take his place piloting the Blue Lion. It also had romance as Zarkon's troublesome son, Prince Lotor, sought to win the princess's hand. (The characters later served as inspiration for The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).
Voltron spawned a sequel series that aired the following year. The second edition featured 15 members of the Galaxy Alliance whose Land, See and Air Team vehicles formed a new Voltron. Another iteration, Voltron: The Third Dimension, aired in the 1990s but failed to stir much interest among the diehards after jettisoning the anime look in favor of CGI.
Voltron also a spawned a line of action-figures and a comic book series published by Image Comics.
According to Variety, New Regency executives are hoping a Voltron movie will kickstart a potential franchise.
Voltron will be written by Justin Marks, a self-described fan who's reportedly revamped the original story line and turned it into a post-apocalyptic tale set on Earth, specifically New York City and Mexico. It revolves around five rag-tag survivors of an alien attack who join up to pilot lion-shaped robots and stop a new invasion force.
"As for what to expect from the movie, all I can say is...think BIG," Marks teased on the official Voltron Website.
Marks has become the go-to guy when it comes to adapting '80s cartoons. He was previously tapped to write a movie based on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Warner Bros. and überproducer Joel Silver. That film is expected to hit theaters in 2009.
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