Amazon MGM Studios Enters Talks For ‘Masters Of The Universe’ Movie After Netflix Abandons Development
Amazon MGM Studios is eyeing a live-action Masters of the Universe film, based on the popular ’80s toys from Mattel, Deadline can confirm. While in very early talks, the project would come over to the streamer from Netflix, where it fell apart over the summer.
Believed to be continuing on with the project are Adam and Aaron Nee (The Lost City), the writer-directors who’d been at work on it for Netflix. Then, there’s Kyle Allen, who had been set for the starring role of Prince Adam aka He-Man. Among those set to produce is Todd Black.
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Masters of the Universe centers on the orphan Adam, who comes to discover he’s a prince destined to save a faraway land from the threat of the evil wizard Skeletor. The IP has most recently been mined for a trio of animated series — She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Masters of the Universe: Revelation and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe — both of which were for Netflix. Kevin Smith served as showrunner for the middle series, which featured the voices of from Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Chris Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar and more.
Before news broke in July that Netflix abandoned its live-action Masters project for budgetary reasons, other stabs at developing the property for film were made at Sony and Warner Bros. While The Cannon Group succeeded in producing a live-action film, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, which was released all the way back in 1987, that pic was a disappointment at a gross of just over $17.3M.
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