He-Man Fans

The whole first season of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is available for streaming on YouTube. The 1983 animated series contains some 280 minutes worth of original He-Man entertainment.

Hopefully this, together with other YouTube offerings, is consoling enough for fans amid the continuing uncertainty about the 2011 He-Man movie.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – YouTube:

In this successful all time classic series, He-Man the action adventure hero, must use his superhuman power to overcome the forces of evil. It all begins when The Sorceress, who dwells in the mysterious and magical Castle Grayskull calls on Adam, Prince of Eternia.

The He-Man Movie planned for 2009 and subsequently rescheduled for 2011 again begins to look less likely, as Warner Bros pulls out of the deal. The movie with the working title “Masters of the Universe” required co-operation from Mattel (owner of the franchise) and WB, but they didn’t see eye to eye on it.

Despite WBs pullout, the movie has not been officially canceled. If the movie continues to be worked on, it is expected that John Stevenson would still be the director, but it would require a change in director and maybe other lineup. As Film Junk put it:

The move from Warner was expected though since they recently decided to devote more of their time towards DC Comics and their respective properties, which meant that other projects of the same nature would most likely get dropped. Mattel, however, hasn’t given up on the movie just yet and director John Stevenson (who directed the horrid animated feature Kung Fu Panda) is expected to remain with the project which they are actively searching to get set up elsewhere.

We will report on new developments as news about them surface.

The planned 2009 He-Man movie we so much hyped about was rumored to be canceled last November-December and the rumor was since officially confirmed.

However, this year was an official announcement of a 2011 He-Man movie, which will be directed by John Stevenson, who is a director of last year’s Kung-Fu Panda (an Oscar nominee that lost to Wall-E). The script they work on seems to be the same as the one talked about last year.

We’ll keep you updated once we are able to confirm more info.

The origins of He-Man are in Mattel’s action figures – the television series, the comics and the movies were originally just efforts made to popularize the toy-line. This fall we see some new He-Man related action figures in Mattel’s Masters of the Universe Classics -line.

These action figures come at a fine time, if you consider the upcoming movie. They will bring He-Man and the MotU franchise back to the attention of the potential viewers even before the adverts start appearing. Let’s hope they also affect the movie budget positively

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The script for the He-Man Movie of 2009 has allegedly been reviewed by many movie sites. The script is written by Justin Marks and the working title “Grayskull: the Masters of the Universe”. Is has been reviewed well by those who have read it, who also say it contains “ZERO CAMP or CHEESINESS“.

Spoilers follow, please don’t read further is you do not wish to be spoiled…

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