Silver hopes for new He-Man Film
Think He-Man and you will think Mattel action figures, “By the Power of GreySkull” and that campy 1987 movie that starred Dolph Lundgren. Now producer Joel Silver is hoping that he can develop a new film version of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Warner Brothers but it must be approved by toymaker Mattel who owns the toy-based franchise.
The script is set to be written by Justin Marks if the film gets the go ahead but Mattel are reported to be wary of going Hollywood again and had already said no to an attempt by Fox 2000 and director John Woo.
The franchise has been reimagined by Silver and the writers and pitched to Mattel as a classic good-vs.-evil battle, using the kind of visual effects strategy employed in 300.
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