Voltron Feature Film Is Dead; Robots Will Rely On TV Reboot
By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2010 11:13 pm EST
That’s no longer the case which, given the quality of the Transformers films, might not be a bad thing at all.
In April of this year, Makowski was gone, the Marks screenplay was gone, and World Event Productions and Atlas were developing a new version.
Now a Variety article says, without much detail, that all feature film versions are dead. The subhead on the piece calls Voltron the “latest project to scrap plans to reboot via bigscreen” and says that “WEP and Classic Media had been developing a live action feature for some time but scribes, including Justin Marks, have yet to lock down the right tone, producers said.”
Rather than using a feature to bring the lions back to audiences, Voltron will re-appear on TV, via a Nicktoons show called Voltron Force, which uses the old ‘five lions, one big robot’ setup. We’ve known about the TV show for a while; now it seems that rights holders World EVen Prods and Classic Media figure that series and a bunch of new Mattel toys are a better way to make use of the license than a feature. It worked through the ’80s, so why not now?
