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Voltron movie will make sweet music By Colin Mahan - TV.com
July 27, 2005 at 04:30:00 PM | more stories by this author
Yet another '80s cartoon comes to the big screen, this one with a soundtrack by Neptunes leader Pharrell Williams.
"I'll form... box-office dollars!"
One thing will be certain about the Voltron movie: It'll have a cool soundtrack. That's the hope of Pharrell Willams, leader of the Neptunes and executive producer of the movie Voltron: Defender of the Universe. In addition to producing the film and its soundtrack, Pharell will also write the score.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe, an animated show from the '80s, tells the story of five young space jockeys who travel into space to learn how to control one of five robot ships. Each episode, the five heroes combine their personal robots into one giant robot: Voltron. As Voltron, the five must work together to defeat the evil alien Drule Empire. So, not only was Voltron an exciting after-school event, but also it presented lessons on the importance of team building.
The Voltron movie is being produced by Mark Gordon, who produced the films The Day After Tomorrow and Saving Private Ryan. The Voltron film joins a growing roster of '80s cartoons that are making make their way to the silver screen, including John Woo's He-Man, Spielberg and Bay's Transformers, and The Smurfs.
'Voltron: Defender of the Universe' to become film at Fox
Source: Variety
According to Variety, New Regency is looking to assemble its own giant robot movie.
The 20th Century Fox-based production entity is close to a deal with the Mark Gordon Co. to adapt Voltron: Defender of the Universe into a live-action film.
Gordon has been developing the pic, based on the popular 1980s Japanese animated TV series, comicbooks and toy line, with Justin Marks penning the script.
Interest in the property hit a high after Transformers turned into a box office juggernaut, raking in nearly $300 million to date.
Marks' take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico. Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.
New Regency hopes to have the film in production before 2009 comes to a close.
If they are going to do these movies then they need to do G Force, Starblazers, and Robotech... Votron and Thundercats were crap compared to these!
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