For the last decade, anything that was remotely profitable as a toy for kids has been co-opted by Hollywood. And watching studios fingerbang your childhood for a few bucks ain't pretty.After seeing Transformers get ruined not once, but twice, and G.I. Joe being the towering pile of crap that it is, the thought of more 80's properties being given a computer FX shine is not so exciting. So to find out that Warner Bros., Joel Silver and Mattel have broken up and that's there's no He-Man movie getting made, we should all breathe a sigh of relief.
Why else? The series accurate movie script that launched the project had been jettisoned by Silver for this:
Warners sees the big-screen version as a gritty fantasy and re-imagines Adam as a soldier who sets off to find his destiny, happening upon the magical world of Eternia. There, Skeletor has raised a technological army and is bent on eradicating magic.
Yes, astronaut He-Man vs the magic-hating sorcerer Skeletor -- pretty much the only movie worse than the '87 Lundgren affair. And now it isn't going to happen. Mattel can take the property to another studio who will probably screw it up -- they almost certainly will -- but now it goes back to the same development limbo that's kept Thundercats off the screen as well.
nostalgia - this was epic
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