New Masters Of The Universe Live-Action Movie Teela And Prince Adam Set Images

On 3/13/2025 at 1:45 PM, Jscott991 said:

I'm not sure in this day and age it affects the budget as much as it did in the 1980s (when the Eternia sets for the MOTU movie were enormously expensive). I think they set these things on Earth because they lack imagination and assume the audience does too. They think we will only relate to what is going on if there is some connection to Earth. It's really silly because Earth turns off more MOTU fans than it adds random casual fans.

Yeah, this, SO MUCH. It was this that made Michal Bay relegated the Transformers into minor characters in their own movie because he and Spielberg thought the audience is more interested in the story of "a boy and his car". And later the Bumblebee movie did the same thing. The most prominent Transformers cannot even talk!!! I have seen the original script for the 2007 movie and they planned for the TFs to not even be able to talk...

We had to wait until 2024 for them to make a Transformers movie that actually starred the Transformers. It's why for all its faults in changing lore, I liked the G.I Joe movie - you could at least instantly recognize all the characters, and they were the main characters.

This stupid need to have characters time/space travel to present day Earth to save on sets was dumb back when Beastmaster 2 or the Star Trek "Save the Whales" movie did it, and it is stupid now. And I cannot believe that MOTU of all franchises is making it.. AGAIN. Did they forget this was the reason the first movie flopped? It was basically Suburban Commando with barely any classic MOTU characters, He-Man barely even used his sword.

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The Lego Movie was a good example. Was anyone asking them to justify it? But halfway through the movie, they did. It's a kid playing in his basement, trying to get his dad's attention. That also undid everything, as the stakes in the Lego portion were then nil.

I stopped caring about the characters after that - I already disliked the super fast pacing that requires you to have ADHD to be able to follow the action - because that basically meant our characters whom we followed for this long have no agency and we are watching a kid play with toys... Like the opposite of Toy Story.

On 3/13/2025 at 3:20 AM, Homersteam said:

My feeling is with this, it's on Earth because they are shooting with a smaller budget to see how it does. If it does well, I think they'll give us a bigger sequel, mostly on Eternia. I think I kind of get it. Besides a film from the 80s, it's fairly untested.

It doesn't have a small budget. It's $200+ million not including marketing. Godzilla Minus One had a small budget. That was somewhere around $15 million and looked amazing.

I dont know. Im not sure if he has the neck for it.

4 hours ago, Homersteam said:

My feeling is with this, it's on Earth because they are shooting with a smaller budget to see how it does. If it does well, I think they'll give us a bigger sequel, mostly on Eternia. I think I kind of get it. Besides a film from the 80s, it's fairly untested.

I'm not sure in this day and age it affects the budget as much as it did in the 1980s (when the Eternia sets for the MOTU movie were enormously expensive). I think they set these things on Earth because they lack imagination and assume the audience does too. They think we will only relate to what is going on if there is some connection to Earth. It's really silly because Earth turns off more MOTU fans than it adds random casual fans.

My feeling is with this, it's on Earth because they are shooting with a smaller budget to see how it does. If it does well, I think they'll give us a bigger sequel, mostly on Eternia. I think I kind of get it. Besides a film from the 80s, it's fairly untested.

The days of Hollywood having the courage to start a movie with, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far away," are sadly over. Everything has to be related to earth, and are always about finding one's way home to settle mommy/daddy issues.

The Lego Movie was a good example. Was anyone asking them to justify it? But halfway through the movie, they did. It's a kid playing in his basement, trying to get his dad's attention. That also undid everything, as the stakes in the Lego portion were then nil.

Like other established works, LOTR and GOT, you can just drop a viewer in an MOTU movie, and they'll get it. But Hollywood doesn't trust audiences' imaginations any more than they do their own.

Outside of Mattel, this lack of trust is throughout the line. The animation writers could have made Queen Marlena heroic without having her hail from earth. DC did the most lazy writing, though, unlike the original mini comics written by Don Glutt. DC writers decided he couldn't just be He-Man, he needed a secret identity. He couldn't just be an everyman, he had to be a prince. He couldn't just wear a disguise, he had to say, "Shazam!" and transform. MOTU was Conan meets Star Wars, then it wasn't.

49 minutes ago, ClarkKent said:

Why? You can just not watch it, so from your perspective its as good as cancelled.

Not necessarily. It influences product releases.

3 hours ago, Jscott991 said:

I love that it has Prince Adam, but can't imagine it will be any good with Earth involved. I keep hoping it will get cancelled honestly.

Why? You can just not watch it, so from your perspective its as good as cancelled.

I love that it has Prince Adam, but can't imagine it will be any good with Earth involved. I keep hoping it will get cancelled honestly.

I would love no Earth and no Prince Adam transformation. How about something like the "jungle He-man" from the mini comics was the long-lost Prince Adam that ended up with that tribe somehow after Hordak and Skeletor kidnapped Adora and Adam? You could go all the way to the second, even third act of the film before He-man figures out that he is the prince.