He-Man star sinks Masters of the Universe reboot, brags about “How Different” it will be!

[@DarthVader1273]

“Different” is now code for “Pushing modern audience slop while completely ruining what made the IP special.” Hard pass for me.

[@Knight_Kin]

ITS GOING TO BE GAY. REALLY, REALLY GAY. SUPER DUPED GAY.

[@sgttau977]

What really surprises me is how making movies is supposed to be a business, and as a business the idea is to make money off an investment. With that in mind why would anyone want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars knowing that it is likely going to be a huge loss? The only person likely to make any money off such an expected loss is whoever got paid for letting someone use the IP.

[@jeremydavis308]

@@Knight_Kin every action scene with he-man gonna be a Cher song 😂

[@Overlord_Barabbus]

He-Man, now containing 0% actual He-Man. EVERYTHING you like, they will destroy like angry children, demanding attention. Eventually, they will destroy something that cannot be fixed or replaced. At that point, it's your fault, not theirs. They're still incoherently insane and you know better.

[@mrmaxaxl]

​@@Knight_Kin And of course: Diverse!!

[@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw]

How ironic will it be that the Dolph Lundgren movie will remain the best MotU movie ever made?

[@chrisstory563]

yeah. Cannon may have half assed it but now Amazon wants to be like Cannon Film. putting out crap but not in a good way. Cannon back in the 80's put out alot of it bad it's good type of movie.

[@LesterManley-s9n]

Yeah, just like The Last Man on Earth(1964) will most likely be the best adaptation of the book I Am Legend.

[@sci-fi.tsunami]

Ironic, sad & pathetic. 🤢🤮

[@markcarpenter6020]

​@@chrisstory563 Cannon movies were a case of people wanting to make good movies but not having the budget.

[@Call-me-Jester]

Cannon was trashed, definitely wanted the story to take place on Eternia alone, but I really liked Lundgren as He-man. The appearance, he had the character and heroism, his costume could have been updated but I would have prefered more similarity with the 80's cartoon version. I have the same consideration for all of the costuming within that film, among other criticisms. Still a movie I would watch again though. Cannot say the same about much of the slop they produce these days.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

We don't want "different", we want "familiar setting and faithful characters, new stories"

[@rogerrussell9544]

That isn't happening when the star drinks soy.

[@Relkond]

They can't do familiar. They don't know the original story.

[@markivy3451]

​@@rogerrussell9544 its to the point we should troll them and say we want it and never go see it. Demanding the women be trans and more soy boys.Failing so big they lose even more money that what they would have normally.

[@nightbeast8105]

exactly this. let's "re-invent" something into a totally different thing but still call it the same thing then complain when nobody who liked original thing hates new thing..

[@BunkerAnon]

@@SamtheBravesFan Yep Prince Adam in his full prime as He-Man with his full cast of friends. And Skeletor being his Mustache Twirling best.

[@marcomarterer7232]

When did "This will be so different from the thing you love" became a selling argument?

[@sigmacademy]

About the same time you got people who hated the original, I would wager.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Hollywood has become all about being better than the audience, so this is their identity now. All while investors have become so afraid of losing money, they only give money for projects with a brand name attached. It’s a totally schizophrenic industry right now. That means activists need brand names, but also need to signal their superiority by ruining the brand value. I wonder what will happen, once investors realize what the self proclaimed Hollywood elite is doing with their money …

[@shawnbell3468]

@@sigmacademy Are those the people that had no friends and only got knock-off Japanese hero figures to play with?

[@mikeq3760]

Wasn't Tim Burton's Batman different from the Adam West show?

[@marcomarterer7232]

@@mikeq3760 Well played, Sir!

[@ciaranmccarthy]

I guess they didn't get the memo. It's not 2016 anymore, it's 2025. It's time to respect source material and fans of franchises.

[@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw]

Even if they did get the memo, it will still take them years to accept it. After all, the Third Reich was defeated after Stalingrad, it still took 2,5 years of bitter fighting to finish them off. These hacktivists will not relinquish their hold on Hollywoke and society in general without a massive fight that will last for years too. And expect setbacks along the way.

[@davfree9732]

Hollywood is like a time capsule. People of the modern decade can look back and see how far we've progressed from the dark age of entertainment.

[@Gundam04]

Respect leads to success a lesson that they refuse to learn

[@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY]

respect... He-man? you mean, that show where it's lasting legacy has been nothing but gay jokes, youtube poop and skeletor memes? it's not exactly a particularly deep or dignified franchise to begin with

[@ciaranmccarthy]

@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY why are they using the IP at all then?

[@john-paul9804]

"Attract New Fans" Imma head out, now.

[@workingZen]

I do hate it when studios say that specially when something already has a built in fan base. Just means they alienate those and end up bombing cause no one cares.

[@maniacaldude]

I’m not against attracting a new audience to an old IP, but it needs to be done right, and that would mean considering the original fan base and appealing to them, too. And I don’t mean in a pandering member-berry way, either, I mean a way that stays faithful to the original source and does it justice.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

They used to call those „new fans“ the „modern audience“ … I guess we have reached the postmodern time now in terms of terrible names for „defying expectations“.

[@jamespeacock8665]

​​@@workingZenhow can HeMan have a fanbase in 2025? You lot have lost the plot.

[@havingfun-u4g]

@@jamespeacock8665 Did gen x start dying in droves or something?

[@raymathews1474]

They're sewing up another skin suit, this one in the shape of He Man. Save your energy by ignoring it when it appears.

[@michellewilson6249]

You know I think fans with AI could come up with movies that are a lot better.

[@kellymays5138]

What is Hollywood doing? why are they hiring people that are shaming the IPS they supposed to be portraying?

[@Mereologist]

It's a similar problem science has. No journal wants to publish an article about the research you did that totally confirms everything that happened before, and so you can't get tenure and interesting research projects. But science NEEDS this to happen to be rigorous. Likewise, most directors don't want to just do an 'adaptation'. They'll never build their reputation and freedom that way! They want to do 'their own projects'. But investors don't trust random projects from no-name directors. They want to milk an existing IP. So all the money goes to things nobody wants to do... so they keep trying to twist it into 'their own project'.

[@GladDestronger]

Because they're delusional morons with their heads up their collective asses.

[@otaking3582]

We already have He-man adaptations that are "different from the cartoon". Being like the original cartoon would ironically set itself apart!

[@svengold3711]

They should go to the original source material: the comics. Make it more like Conan and the Masters of the Universe.

[@sci-fi.tsunami]

Same goes for Transformers. The live-action Transformers movies were fun for the robot carnage & awesome FX but still sucked ass at the same time.

[@otaking3582]

@@svengold3711 The majority of people have never read the comics

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@@otaking3582 You should check out Fall Of Grayskull and it's sequel which are two fan films that honor the source material. Tuesday Knight even sings an outstanding cover of "I Have The Power" from The Secret Of The Sword Movie from 1985!⚔🛡💀🏰

[@findJLF]

Well said Sir!

[@CaptainRC1]

All I can say is, at least I have the original cartoons on DVD.

[@weismeister121]

The 2002 cartoon was also pretty good

[@punkjay1528]

You're not a fan of masters of the universe, you're a fan of your childhood

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

​@@punkjay1528 what is this supposed to mean?

[@StratumPress]

@@punkjay1528 ...that made no sense.

[@punkjay1528]

@@StratumPress which bit are you struggling with?

[@TroyPacelli]

To say the new project is significantly different from the original, but then trying to lay claim to a "nostalgia component" is completely incompatible.

[@p0rt3r]

That nostalgia component is usually the name they intent to tarnish.

[@TroyPacelli]

@@p0rt3r Exactly

[@DavidMartinez-ce3lp]

That's what always happens. They hate the source material. And when this fails, they will wonder why, but it will have always been completely obvious.

[@amalekedomite]

It's not that they hat the source material. It's that they hat the culture and society that created the source material. Because it was a culture and society of straight white men.

[@dalelee1482]

And they will blame the audience

[@cuckoonut1208]

I don't understand the hate. It was a show for kids that was cool and thought valuable lessons. What's there to hate?

[@amalekedomite]

@@cuckoonut1208 It stars a straight white masculine male. The female are feminine. It teaches western young men those valuable lessons, which allow them to become compotent and take action in their lives. This cannot be. Amalek must be destroyed.

[@DavidMartinez-ce3lp]

@cuckoonut1208 Exactly that. It's modern Hollywood. They think their so edgy and rebellious, but in reality it's all just more modern mainstream slop.

[@ciaranmccarthy]

DOA

[@DaNinja60]

Exactly.

[@Sacto1654]

As currently conceived, very likely. The producers may have "leaked" the premise of the movie to judge public reaction, and since it's generally negative, may just go back to the continuity of the original 1980's cartoon.

[@epsileth]

The Netflix He-Man and She-Ra reboots on Netflix are the embareasment. And this reboot movie is more about star power and diversity than plot.

[@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY]

Buddy, all of He-Man is embarrassing. It was never a good franchise to begin with.

[@epsileth]

@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY the og 80s series was good, but based on toys they tried to produce as a failed attempt at Conan for kids. There was an attempt at He-Man having a son take up the mantle in the 90s, and an anime style reboot that was good, but didn't sell toys well. First live action movie in the 80s tried, but was a rehash of a failed universal soldier script. The kids version of He-Man on Netflix was more faithful to the source material.

[@eliotduke1753]

That netflix shit is insulting

[@SamtheBravesFan]

I've noticed you never heard anyone talking about the second season of the Kevin Smith He-Man. Like at all.

[@herooflight7931]

That's because kevin smith is forgettable​@@SamtheBravesFan

[@khamankhoma8232]

Kevin Smith: "Boy, I doubt anybody could do worse to He-Man than I did!" Nicholas Galitzine: "Hold my pint."

[@yellowmartian]

More like hold my soy latte.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

I doubt that this will still manage to draw the anger that Kevin Smith did. Kevin Smith had the „benefit“ of being able to use really cool looking animation for a big bait and switch, so I guess Kevin will remain the one that killed the franchise.

[@Jack0f_llTrades]

You mean spritzer

[@cuckoonut1208]

@@davidgantenbein9362 he must have needed the money so bad that he sold his soul.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

@@cuckoonut1208 He did need a career boost back then and I think he expected the bait & switch to provide that. Given older interviews from him, he also simply didn’t care at all about He-Man. Given he sacrificed his fans on the altar of the cult, I‘m even more angry with him, tbh.

[@yolondambrowm9803]

ALL of the reboots have been pure GARBAGE! They cast some beta simp that doesn't have a shred of testosterone! He's on a steady diet of soy and estrogen!

[@noahdanielg]

Just stick with the 2002 He-Man animated series, a good, actually epic remake. Could never be made today.

[@Reidbynature]

It was cancelled too soon.

[@noahdanielg]

@ Should have at least gotten another season or a film to finish the story.

[@herooflight7931]

You're right

[@Junior.illinois]

💯

[@mrmaxaxl]

Nah the original is better 😁

[@GladeRiven]

Don't know if I've ever seen anything stuck in Development Hell ever turn out good in the end, and this has been in Dev Hell for a LONG time.

[@Totalfreedomliving]

Fury Road

[@GladeRiven]

@@Totalfreedomliving Still haven't seen it, so I can't vouch for it.

[@Totalfreedomliving]

@ 😳 How did you miss that modern classic??

[@willpower8061]

Wow, I'm so UN-surprised by Hollywood setting up another dumpster to light on fire 🔥

[@GladDestronger]

It's official now. Hollywood just loves to burn money away.

[@derekedwards5817]

Absolutely infuriating 😂

[@kinglyone7172]

At this point he-man just can't be done as a live action film.

[@BunkerAnon]

I've seen a commercial that was pretty good few years back. Had awesome Skeletor and He-man muscle suits.

[@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY]

do we really need one, though? I don't need another He-man movie, and we didn't need the first one either. it's a bad franchise, just let it die in a corner

[@geneangrypenguin5876]

​@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY Those are the exactly the things you need new versions of. Take a crap movie with a good premise, remake a new movie around the premise.

[@AntiDecepticonCampaign]

It shouldn’t be either. Sick of the live action egostrokes. DC, Marvel, Transformers, etc etc, ALL of them Should be done Animated films or series.

[@Daemonarch2k6]

The entire staff of all hollywood's writers and actors combined have not enough testosterone to face teela.

[@Gundam04]

These idiots will never learn will they

[@Dats_Mark]

a MOTU adaption should feel like a fantastic mix of Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (the good ones) and Conan the Barbarian. Basically you get your Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery with a little touch of Sci-Fi. It doesn't have to be ultra serious or super campy... but it does have to have heart. and the last thing this movie needs is anything about Earth. Earth was the worst part of the '87 adaption. The only exception I'd be ok with is a passing remark of that being where Adam's mom is from (having crash landed as an astronaut) but even that is unneeded.

[@Halbared]

Something like John Carter of Mars, but good.

[@mikeq3760]

​@@HalbaredJohn Carter was good.

[@hellacoorinna9995]

Bit of "Krull, too.

[@septillion2501]

This movie was doomed the second they cast queer actor Nicholas Galitzine, who himself is very "camp" in real life, to play He-Man, the literal embodiment of masculine energy.

[@thisismyname3928]

For something like He-Men you either go all the way faithful to the cartoon (campy) or break away completely and be dark and gritty like Conan. Going half-way from either approach is just going to be a disaster. Those casting choices were straight out of the dei handbook.

[@dkminion]

He is Queer ❓

[@solaceboy]

​@@dkminionIf you're asking about He-Man, no he's not queer.

[@bimapringgo]

What are you talking about? He-Man and Prince Adam are gay AF.

[@Voltabulous]

Calm down homophobe!

[@MrImmortalFish]

Race swapping? Gosh, that's different!

[@stokelyandhisboys2773]

Yep. They're doing it again.

[@brotherinchrist1079]

Im sick of it. Man-At-Arms will always be white to me. Im full blooded White Mountain Apache myself and grew up in the 80s and loved MOTU. I don't want to see race swapping anymore.

[@JoMARKESE-o1x]

There pushing the Adgenda.. again.. pushing it hard..

[@robd6711]

Son is nearly 4 and adores classic He-man. Great to go back and rewatch it at the same time! Any property that ignores its origins is more than likely a recipe for disaster. Leto as Skeletor is also big poodoo!

[@mp4-27d3]

This how you “attract a new audience”, you show your kids and maybe one day they’ll show their kids. Well done dad!🔥🔥🔥

[@beerdragon4583]

They don’t get it. They just don’t get it.

[@Gundam04]

And they never will

[@CaptainRC1]

​@@Gundam04And that's why Hollywood is collapsing in real time.

[@mrmaxaxl]

They can't wait to watch their money go up in flames 🔥💵🔥

[@rogerrussell9544]

Did you hear Disney is going to reboot another classic, "Old Yeller", but they're going to use a black lab.

[@MetalThornTree]

I just want to see a magic barbarian fight a bunch of medieval mutants in an 80's fantasy swords and sorcery looking world. It's not complicated.

[@liamfowell8661]

The realy 200's MotU reboot was awesome. Still can't believe it didn't get continued

[@Junior.illinois]

💯

[@exequielnido9165]

coz it didn't sell the toys. it has somewhat high ratings and awarded the best music background.

[@weismeister121]

I know, right?!

[@DrSnakesMD-xv7jn]

This worked really well for Kevin Smith!

[@lacolem1]

The moment they cast Camila Mendes, you should have known what was up

[@SonicStantz]

“A franchise loved by many and misunderstood by many more.” - Andre This is EXACTLY how I feel about Power Rangers. The things that could be done with the reboot are so numerous and obvious, and yet unless we’re talking about the Boom Studios comic books, I fear that those in charge of the franchise are clueless.

[@amalekedomite]

Power Rangers suffers from the same problem He-man does. The current DEI loxism hires are too young to have any familiarity with the source material. So they only know about it from pop culture inferrence. Thus the reboots can only ever, at best, tread old ground. At worst it's just a brand new thing with vague references to the most obvious aspects of the original source material. See: Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, etc.

[@Z-Man7]

It had no chance in hell to be good when Amazon Studios is producing it.

[@DAZzler3K]

If they wanted a different approach, they could have sticked to the first series of the Mattel Minicomics written by Donald F. Glut and illustrated by Alfredo P. Alcala. Where He-Man was just a savage hunter from the jungle and Skeletor was a being from another dimension. (No "Prince Adam" BS, in a fantasy setting nobody needs a "secret identity". That was totally an idea the Filmation folks came up with, who at that time had made too many Super Hero stuff.) Heck, Don Glut is still around, get him on board, he might still remember what he'd got written back than. I'd watch this for granted.

[@cameronjames3499]

That would probably get them in trouble with the current owner of Robert E. Howard's Estate/IP. That version has them a little too close to what they were originally knocking off ie Kull the Conqueror and Thulsa Doom (from the "Declarde's Cat" short-story).

[@williamcorey4700]

​@@cameronjames3499exactly. That was the reason they changed it to begin with.

[@claudijatzandrapova3347]

⁠@@cameronjames3499 well initially He-Man was intended as a licensed toy for Conan but some point during development either Howard or his estate told Mattel they changed their minds so there would be a lawsuit if they continued. Mattel, rather fond of the designs the team made and not willing to give up- changed direction and thus mini comics were sold with the toys to give life to the kids play. Funimation, as they did later with ThunderCats- got hired by Mattel to create essentially adverts for the toys but as with Transformers, the cartoon took off much better and faster than expected thus creating the OG franchise as we know today.

[@Holammer]

If they want to make a hit movie, ham it up to the extreme by following the source material and put a square jawed actor in a muscle suit like they did for the Money Supermarket commercials. Audiences will love it.

[@ah-hx2uc]

Goat Man originally appeared in the 1985 Masters of the Universe story Secret of the Dragon's Egg written by Jack C. Harris

[@javierramirez1805]

Yeah, cause Rachel Zegler did that and the Snow White live action movie will be quite the hit.

[@Brickerbrack]

Goat-Man was actually one of Skeletor's minor henchmen in the original cartoon. I actually quite liked Revelation, but i think they'd be far better off looking to the 200X iteration to see how to take the core of what we loved about the original and update and expand upon it...

[@Aeric98]

Netflix likes losing money

[@vivaquitocarajo]

It is Amazon Prime

[@matthewlavagna6080]

It all depends on how they approach it. The 2011 Thundercats series was quite different from the original 1985 series, but it was great. In some ways it was even better.

[@Ghost-27X]

Will anybody be surprised if this is a "Complete Failure" ... Smh what a shame. Masters of the Universe could be Epic in the Fantasy Adventure genre

[@zeorhymer6]

Gone are the days where actors hyped up the movie instead of instilling doubt, anger and apathy to the audience

[@KNS1996DFS]

Idris Elba as Man at Arms because, of course.

[@markcarpenter6020]

He has basically become the go to actor when they race swap a character. I wonder if the future will remember him like it remembers the old time actors that did B face.

[@stokelyandhisboys2773]

@@markcarpenter6020 Probably

[@samspurgeon4222]

He would be playing the same character that he did in that last Suicide Squad movie😂

[@Vulturefist]

I really like Idris Elba as an actor, but man, he should have fired his agent a long time ago…

[@mikeq3760]

​@Vulturefist why is that?

[@TariqKhan-77]

I recall the 2012-early 13 timeline where Chris Zylka was cast and Jon Chu was to be director, every change of casting since then has been worse but at least some of the directors considered have been a notable upgrade. We have to go back.

[@mr.dccomics9018]

They want to make it " relatable and dark the modern audience". They gonna turn He Man into Guardians of the Galaxy.

[@Veylon]

That one you can actually have your cake and eat it too. The heroes are the corny goody two-shoes. The bad guys are the cynical, eye-rolling, quippy, cleverer-than-thou types.

[@kingbeef66]

Mattel should move on to reviving the Jayce and Wheeled Warriors franchise with scrupulous treatment if they want to compete with Hasbro who’s given up on financing their movies.

[@Reidbynature]

This will make the original film look like a masterpiece in comparison.

[@jeffc3455]

“Fall of Grayskull 2” is the He-Man fan movie we need, but received only 60K out of its 250K goal on Kickstarter. I hope that the filmmakers will restategize their plan and try to kickstart again (I heard the director Daniel Benedict sold all his He Man collection to fund the trailer.)

[@jorge23483]

I see Sony's manual of "how to bomb your movie" becoming a bestseller in Hollywood in this 2025.

[@leandercarey]

My memory is admittedly hazy but my understanding is that Eternia exists in a kind of extra-dimensional nexus with a completely different set of physical laws governing it AND that the things that happen in and effect Eternia shape and effect the universe as a whole. It exists out of time or in its own plane, so to speak. It's for these reasons that Skeletor, among others, is obsessed with controlling Eternia. And why the term 'Masters of the Universe' has meaning. That's why the story MUST take place in Eternia and NOT on Earth. Admittedly, there's 40 years of dust and cobwebs on those memories so for all I know I could be remembering bits of a porn parody movie from 1989...

[@chrisbennett1358]

Why do they always have to disrespect what came before? The arrogance of these people is baffling

[@sci-fi.tsunami]

*HUMANITY = INSANITY!* Why do they always insist on fixing what isn't broken?

[@mikeq3760]

How is this new film disrespecting the material exactly?

[@chrisstory563]

awful cast. I mean accept for one actor. everyone else I never heard of. also, don't be surprise this will get cancelled since wokeness and the whole modern audience BS is dying. this is amazon being arrogant.

[@Exlee-dq9uo]

So sick of the anti-wh-te race swaps! Seriously make your own characters! Stop stealing ours!!

[@stokelyandhisboys2773]

Gotta get that DEI money.

[@Junior.illinois]

💯

[@brentmoore6733]

Problem is they did not need to race swap or make a new person there is Clamp Champ.

[@MultiverseAsheville]

@@brentmoore6733Clamp Champ sucks, though. Almost all the characters from the end of the line suck-but that was when they suddenly realized not every kid on the planet is white.

[@indigomontari9022]

Best reboot so far is the 2000's He-Man cartoon... maybe base the movie off of that version of the canon

[@shaithis77]

Andre showing he doesn’t know He-Man that well. 1) the original cartoon is terrible. It’s okay to not base the movie on it. 2) Goatman predates Revelation by decades. 3) the property wasn’t just a toyline when the figures came out. They included mini comics which told a much different, more Conan-esque story with NO Prince Adam. Not to defend the upcoming movie, as from what I’ve heard, it’s basically Adam when he’s young escapes to earth when Skeletor attacks, grows up to be a salesman not knowing who he is, etc. etc. Basically, garbage. But that doesn’t make what the actor is saying “woke” or whatever. The old cartoon was camp, and needed to be updated. Also the cast is pretty stellar, not sure what you’re on about.

[@MarkERoth]

Everyone's big problem with the cast is Jared Leto who starred in two pretty bad superhero movies. Personally I'm holding judgement until what he looks like in makeup and we get a sample of his performance. He has as much potential to nail this role as he does to face plant. I don't care for the fish out of water story that the movie will probably start with leading to him being 30 and probably not remembering Eternia at all. I think the Netflix CGI show did that trope a lot better at first.

[@DavidMartinez-ce3lp]

I remember when Anya Taylor joy talked about how they modernized Princess Peach in the Super Mario bros movie. They were clearly ashamed of the character's history. And instead of taking the best aspects of previous iterations, they made her a girlboss.

[@Gundam04]

That was the only bad part of the movie

[@gloriathomas3245]

Peach was always a girlboss dude and guess someone never watched the cartoons. Even in the Legend of Zelda cartoon Princess Zelda was girlboss..

[@DavidMartinez-ce3lp]

@gloriathomas3245 No, she wasn't. She's literally one of the most famous damsels in distress in the world. Just because there's a few adaptations that changed that aspect, that doesn't mean that no longer is part of her character. Especially not when there are also modern adaptations that have continued utilizing her as a damsel in distress.

[@MadsterV]

Peach pumping a fist at the camera ain't peach.

[@MadsterV]

@@gloriathomas3245 well EXCUUUUSE ME PRINCESS it isn't exactly the most loved adaptation. I avoided it even as a kid.

[@Shaitanshammer]

The 200x version was one of the best reboots that dug into unproduced lore. Kevin Smith's was blah and an abomination. The race swaps are the red flags.

[@Shaitanshammer]

I believe a producer on the Mike Young 200x MOTU series, also worked at Filmation and was glad to have the chance to do things he couldn't in the 80s. His name escapes me presently.

[@Junior.illinois]

💯 indeed

[@MultiverseAsheville]

Race swaps are fine. There is NOTHING about Man-at-Arms that has to be a white guy. It beats having Clamp Champ running around just so it isn’t another all-white cast like the cartoon.

[@Shaitanshammer]

Nah make up new characters. Race swapping is dumb hand me downs and just used as a middle finger. Duncan has always been white. But there is lore that makes Clamp Champ who was King Randors bodyguard succeed Duncan as Man At Arms.

[@Shaitanshammer]

To be clear: Man At Arms is a Title. Duncan is a specific character, who has always been portrayed a certain way. You can change out who holds the title. When you are changing the character, well its doing the same thing over and over that has been destroying modern takes on old properties. Pretty much the same mind virus which has been going on forever. But as I said. There's lore for Clamp Champ becoming Man At Arms. Use it and honor it if you must have a black Man At Arms.

[@marcelo78]

If different means visually, it's understandable. It's very complicated to recreate the cartoon look as live action. But if that means pandering to "modern audiences," we'll have another Snow White in our hands.

[@cryptfiend13]

Goat Man was in the original Mini-Comics from the 80's.

[@TheRealJPhillips]

It should be a direct sequel of the original. Skeletor said he'd be back

[@herooflight7931]

Hollywood will never learn will. Where respect goes successful follow. Yet they refused to learn this lesson.

[@darthgeist3966]

The 2002 He-Man animated series is perhaps the best animated adaptation of the character. If a film was to be made based more on that, then it would've had a chance.

[@leadingauctions8440]

It is amazing how they purposely make these three things different, that are somehow surprised the fans do not watch it

[@penrar]

If they LOTR’d He-Man, I’d be down. Never liked it at the time but I can imagine an awesome Peter Jackson rendition of it.

[@ChepoTeam]

Teela as a brown Latin-a instead of a Red Hair… I’m shocked! So stunning, so brave. 😒

[@kingbeef66]

All in all, the arguments sound exactly like Disney’s Snow White movie.

[@AlphaProto]

I was just a toddler when He-Man was on the air. I just know that I hated that they went to the real world.

[@shawnbell3468]

I haven't been excited for any media since the 1st Disney Star Wars was announced, it's been all downhill since then. I think they want us void of excitement and joy and the only main emotion left in this world is malice.

[@TheSystem030]

so true! watched the first disney star wars in the cinama, still havent seen the last two, or any of the shows other than Andor.

[@franklinrichards8851]

I grew up with He-Man, and I have to say what Kevin Smith did to it makes me NEVER to want to watch another He-Man again. I will wait till Kevin passes on then maybe I can get the bitter taste out of my mouth.

[@MultiverseAsheville]

Smith did a love letter to the franchise. Unless you only watched Part 1 of Season 1, and fell for the whole rug-pull of fake-killing Adam.

[@MortimurGrimm]

He-Man was one of my first action figures, getting one from my parents prior to the show airing. I remember tuning into that first episode and it was great. It didn’t age well though, but I enjoyed the 2000’s series. Ultimately, I just want Eternia to look like The Dark Crystal with humanoids and technology mixed with sorcery. No silliness though. Just make it cool.

[@charlieparker5977]

Yeah.............I'll definitely wait on Andre's review of this before even thinking about paying out $20 to go watch it.

[@Kalckie]

The best use of the Masters of the Universe IP in the last 15 years was the Money Super Market Commercials.

[@darkroninmarvel]

Travis Knight: Congratulations, Nicholas, you made our jobs harder, and we haven't started filming yet!

[@ericrecano8557]

The Old Masters of the Universe movie could have been so much better if not for budget constraints but Dolph was definitely cast well for He-Man. How did we from Lundgren to THIS guy to play He-Man?

[@matthewsantos8525]

I an say the same thing about Skeletor, how did we go from Frank Langella to Jared Leto?

[@cmbaz1140]

i fear we will have to wait for the ip to become public domain before we get a decent he man movie

[@EternalRoman]

Funny that Idris Elba fits the character called Dekker, teacher and Mentor of Duncan and Randor in the 200X He-Man MOTU. He was "Teacher at Arms" and used to refer to Randor as "Randy". We got to see Clawful's other members of his species in the episode "The Island".

[@anvec6145]

sigh, they keep missing the point, "Ideal version of the Classic story". If they're already saying "it'll be totally different" I don't have any confidence in it. ya don't go to a steakhouse for canned fruit salad, you're there for the steak! gonna keep missing if they just treat it like a stepping stone while they do whatever else they actually wanted to do.

[@HeroicRecaps]

Thanks for slopping by!

[@rexmundi2986]

Thundarr the Barbarian>He-man. That's a mythology with such strong potential for an update, it's a shame it's slept on like it is.

[@beggar1015]

No, I disagree in that I'm glad Hollywood has kept their sticky fingers off Thundarr. They'd just ruin it.

[@bernymannovedadescientific9483]

3 points: 1. He Man creator Roger Sweet said that Dolph Lundgren was TOO THIN to play the strongest man in the universe HE MAN is a VERY MUSCLE guy and that kid (the Hollywood actor) would take at least 10 years to have a similar physique! 2- The forced inclusion is going to screw up the movie since there ARE African American characters in the ORIGINAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Like for example Clamp Champ, Melaktha, GARN and Shokoti (where two of them were created by the only African American 1984 screenwriter Don Manuel) I mean those "WOKES" who think they have the ability to make a He Man movie... THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! 3.- Idris Elba should play Melaktha or Skeletor 👍🏻👍🏻 and Phil Heat as Clamp Champ 🏆

[@robovader7625]

The Mountain should've been Fisto.

[@youtubevoice1050]

Or Ram-man.

[@Webslinger8484]

They never learn, it's like they get off on the fans rejecting the woke message.

[@MasticinaAkicta]

Yes it will be different, aka "what lore?" This won't go well.

[@jeffedwards7960]

I liked the original story of Adam's mother being an astronaut from Earth. Oh well. If they change the story a great deal, I don't know what's the point in calling it He-Man, other than just selling more merchandise.

[@pavel_checov]

My main entertainment last years was watching movies/series for the "modern audience" b0mb, looks likes more of that for 2025. Can't wait.

[@jcm3732]

As an adult I want to see a mature version of this property. I'm not 5 years old anymore I don't want to see the same cartoon I saw when I was 5 years old. I think different can be better.

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

I’m surprised that Idris Alba accepted the role of Man-at-Arms: he made it clear he disliked his recurring role as a fantasy character as Heimdall in the Marvel movies. He probably believe that the series will be short lived and he is certainly among the best paid actor in the cast.

[@markcarpenter6020]

He has definitely become the go to actor when they race swap a character.

[@Madashell1200]

I actually appreciate actors who do this. Not for the reason they suspect though. Its like a signal saying avoid this. They can lose as much money as they will until they start getting it right.

[@S4ns]

Another DOA reboot.

[@LordGrillo-t3c]

The cast sucks, company sucks, premise sucks, hype is in negative numbers for me. Cant wait for this not happening.

[@Frank-Discussion]

It's going to be terrible lol

[@HojotohoWhereverIGo]

Per Wiki Grayskull, “Goat Man originally appeared in the 1985 Masters of the Universe story Secret of the Dragon's Egg written by Jack C. Harris[1] and illustrated by Luis Eduardo Barreto (published by Golden Books). There he was seemingly taking orders from Beast Man.” If there’s Revelation influence, Goat Man isn’t evidence of it.

[@evertvasterlund4034]

If Jared Leto is cast in the movie, miserable failure is not an option.

[@kluneberg8952]

just because you didnt like his joker doesnt mean isnt a good actor. hes probably one of the best actors alive.

[@herooflight7931]

​@@kluneberg8952I don't disagree, he had to deal with some really crappy writing.

[@evertvasterlund4034]

@@kluneberg8952 Yes, and I'm sure he'll be able to express his mastery of all the subtleties of acting in the role of Skeletor.

[@MoivinSulunker]

Meg Foster vs Tilda Swinton.

[@thomasjj1976]

Who wants to see this? Not Children of the 80s?

[@MultiverseAsheville]

1981 baby here, and I’m looking forward to it.

[@christisrisen6774]

Another Deliberate and intentionally missed opportunity to have created a Brand new Black character for the Actor cast as Man at Arms.

[@chaosgyro]

What do we really expect though? If they stuck too closely to the cartoon then it might be fun nostalgia, but it would be a small audience and a single viewing. Even the 1986 Transformers movie knew that sticking too closely to the wacky camp of the show would make for a dicey film.

[@josephmorelli3408]

1983 and 2011 HeMan MOTU shows F-ing ROCKED. They were awesome.

[@JCinLapel]

I think with the chose of Nicholas Galitzine great. I think we are going to see more a Prince Adam I hope. He has many royal roles and military roles but is best known as a romantic lead both with both gay and straight roles in his previous work. I hope they do more the CGI treatment for he-man in more of the way they did in the netflix show it may have made a bad chose in what happens to Adam but the dramatic change of Adam to he man was great. The original cartoon made it more a Clark Kent and superman flip then a dramatic physical change. Adam was a lot of the more the fallowing the bread crumbs. I dont think a true adaption would work as a movie it needs some camp but more it needs more story.

[@okthen5566]

Anything but homelander starring in every show 😂