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Voltron Movie Still Alive, UTA Looking for New Writer

5 October 2009 9:28 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Just when you thought those giant cat-bots of Voltron were dead in the cinematic waters, someone swoops in and starts talking again. The last update we made here on Fsr was a rumor about Max Makowski, director of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," being tapped to direct. Since then, mostly crickets. In July, THR's Risky Business reported that The Dark Knight producer Charles Roven and his partners at Atlas Entertainment had acquired the rights and were pushing things forward, but nothing official has come out since. Until now. The Hollywood Reporter published word today that UTA has signed on to represent U.S. rights-holder World Events Prods. This will include representation on several platforms, including television, video game and toy deals. Also as part of the deal, UTA is going to assist Atlas Entertainment and Jason Netter's Kickstart Prods. with the development of a movie. They are said to be leading the search for a »

- Neil Miller

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Voltron Movie Reforms Again

20 July 2009 7:27 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

Atlas Entertainment has acquired the rights to Voltron and is planning a live-action adaptation of the property.  Producing are Charles Roven (The Dark Knight), Richard Suckle (The International), and Steve Alexander.  The partners purchased the rights for the Japanese anime after it rested at World Events Productions for over 20 years.

The 1980’s hit series features five robot lions that formed a massive robot called Voltron.  The pilots were constantly tasked with defending planets against the forces of Zarkon, including cyborgs known as “Robeasts.”  The popularity of Transformers brought the anime to the United States and will likely help the project become a feature film.

According to the Risky Business Blog, Atlas picked up the pieces after producer Mark Gordon brought Voltron to New Regency (an arm of 20th Century Fox) and then to Relativity Media.  The latter even attached a director (Max Makowski) and launched plans for a “cost-effective” approach, »

- Jeff Leins

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Voltron Movie Back on Track

20 July 2009 10:45 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

It's been a while since we've heard anything about the live action Voltron feature film, which was originally being set up over at New Line in the months leading up to the release of Michael Bay's Transformers. Last summer [1] there was speculation that Queer Eye for the Straight Guy director Max Makowski had been chosen to direct from a script by the "legendary" Justin Marks, but it was never officially confirmed as far as I know. Now this week it looks like the rights have changed hands and things are moving forward once again. The Risky Biz Blog [2] reports that producers Charles Roven (The Dark Knight, Get Smart), Richard Suckle (The International, Scooby Doo) and Steve Alexander have acquired the rights to Voltron from Mark Gordon Productions and may be looking to set it up at Warner Brothers. It seems inevitable that a Voltron movie will happen, it's just »

- Sean

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Producers Understand You'll Pay for Anything and Greenlight 'Voltron' Movie

20 July 2009 1:54 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Thanks to the worldwide success of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen producers Charles Roven, Richard Suckle and Steve Alexander of Atlas Entertainment have once again resurrected Voltron based on the 1980s cartoon series. When we last heard of the proposed feature Max Makowski ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy") was in negotiations to direct the film with a script from Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li) telling a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five 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. However, the new report from Steven Zeitchik at The Risky Bix Blog doesn't mention Makowski and it sounds like the Marks draft is out. The film is no longer set up at a studio, but Atlas does have an overall deal with Warner Bros. »

- Brad Brevet

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Hey Hollywood, What About the Rest of My Childhood?

1 July 2009 12:08 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

Right now, as I type this Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is nearing one kagillion dollars at the worldwide box office, a total so large it has gone into made up numbers.  At this point it’s fairly well documented that I wasn’t a fan of the sequel, so I won’t reiterate how there was no story and most of the critics got it right.

But Transformers got me thinking about how I used to take Soundwave in the tub with me and, while surrounded by bubbles, dive bomb the rubber ducky.  Then, after I finished reminiscing about last weekend, I reflected further back to my childhood.  Those were the good times before I had responsibilities and other things I procrastinate.  However, now that 80’s adaptations are successful in theaters, Hollywood will milk that cash cow dry until we’re all sick of hearing about the toys we »

- Jeff Leins

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