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I love the idea of Allura wielding her father’s sword even though I know her Paladin weapon is the chain whip (which is pretty badass anyway).  

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The Voltron movie, as per Queensland, Australia's government, is going to be clocking in with an initial budget of over $100 million. It's being touted as a massive investment into Australia's film industry, and if the budget shows on the screen, the big budget giant robot spectacle will make people forget a certain Netflix show ever existed.

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Well, after two decades of false starts, false rumors, and unmade scripts, we finally have a Voltron movie set to film next week

With a rather impressive cast to boot, a mix of newcomers, box office vets, and Sterling K. Brown, a legitimate award-winning actor. If nothing else, Henry Cavill has public sympathy from the one-two punch of the DCEU and The Witcher letting him go when he objected to the tonal changes to the books.

Amazon MGM and WEP, whether purposefully or not, are also seemingly doing the right things in regards to the Voltron brand. Voltron Legendary Defender, a black eye on the brand best known for its insane fanbase, is leaving Netflix forever December 7, giving two years for it to continue to fade from public memory before the movie comes out. They're using new character names to avoid those negative connotations (coughKlancecough). Most of the promotional material thus far is using classic logos and imagery. Even the people reporting the news seem to be doing the same.

So with the five younger actors playing the Voltron pilots (Do not use the word "Paladin." The movie sure as hell won't.), it looks like Henry will be the commander of the team, with maybe Brown the main villain? Plot details are being kept tight.

Numerous questions still remain though. What will the robot look like on the big screen? Is it going to be closer to the original and its very 80s boxy design? Is the plot going to explicitly reference the previous series with the "next generation" branding or will this be more of a loose remake of the original? How many jokes will be made at VLD's expense from a cast and crew that has absolutely no love loss for it? Or do they just pretend it never existed and we haven't had a major Voltron production since Voltron Force and the comics from Dynamite? What's the music going to sound like? And finally, will it have more Voltron than VLD did, as in almost none?

Erasing VLD from all media is a good first step, and hiring most of these actors is a good second, but it's going to take a good script, good effects, and good giant robot action to bring this together. Their biggest competitor, the Transformers, only got the last two until the unfortunately unsuccessful Transformers One.

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The Voltron movie cast is fully coming together with the main cast being rounded out by Alba Baptista, Samson Kayo, and Tharanya Tharan. Less notable names than the Cavillrine and Sterling K. Brown.

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I don't care if it's five years later and cringe Allura should have had keith and they should have danced in the stars and also had sex

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Next up are Allura and Keith!

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Everyday I wake up and miss my princess

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queen and the bad dog 😈⛓️

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re: https://www.tumblr.com/nocandnc/691355663975301120/except?source=share Almost six years alter, and I will still always agree with you about VLD, Noc. *Raises a toast*

(Oh, and uh, thanks for the fanfic illustration you did for me all those years ago)

Cheers dchan87!! I've been getting some new traffic on my Kallura art lately (why on earth??) so I figured I'd better get to answering this!

It really warms my heart to know you and others still think about VLD in some capacity after all this time, even if it's just to complain ^^;; Kallura was the reason I joined Tumblr after all (for better or worse lol) so I can safely say I wouldn't be the same person without it.

Thank you for writing the wonderful fic I had the pleasure of illustrating, and thanks to all the wonderful fandom mutuals I've met before and since then! Many have moved on since then, but I still remember our times together fondly.

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Relief.

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What are your thoughts on the live action Voltron movie? Personally, I'm not super excited for it for a bunch of reasons. Not even my love for Henry Cavill will get me to change my mind.

Great question!

I gotta say, I had zero interest until Henry Cavill was announced. I still can’t really see it actually getting made though.

If it actually gets made, I expect that I won’t be the target audience. While I enjoy the DotU story, I’m much more into Vehicle Voltron. Lion Voltron relies upon some tropes that were fine for the times, but that I think are too played out by now. If it were a tv series, then the story would have time to breathe and to develop characters, so the tropes would be less annoying to me (again I won’t be target audience, maybe other people would enjoy it just fine). Not gonna get that kinda development for a large cast in a film. It’s not like they have the luxury of the MCU.

So I expect the film to be focused on Keith and will probably aim for nostalgia and try to be edgy for any older audience. The story would be simplified to make it work in a film. Probably gonna feel hollow. In a series, you have time to develop more than one character. The story might well be decent, but it won’t have the depth (such as it was) of the series. It’s totally gonna be the Keith show.

I don’t expect them to try for a younger (child/yourh) audience, because no producer is going to front the money for that. The IP is too old for today’s child/youth audience in the US. They could go youth if they went for a Power Rangers vibe (which would be easy to do because Voltron is cut from the sentai cloth). I doubt that will happen.

Maybe they can do “action dude assembles a heist team” kinda vibe. They need to make sure that the CG doesn’t suck, because if it does then that will sink any future hopes for the IP.

Anyway, I hope to be surprised, but I can think of only a few directors who could do something worthwhile and interesting with the IP, and they are all very busy being awesome and in demand. Thus, my expectations are low.

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Black & White

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Amazon MGM Voltron has Henry Cavill!

$5 says he's playing Commander Hawkins.

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In my feelings again today. RIP.

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I love the idea of Allura wielding her father’s sword even though I know her Paladin weapon is the chain whip (which is pretty badass anyway).  

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The first time I met up with a friend that we’ve known each other for six years was in SG, and this was a gift from her. Just suddenly felt like time had really gone by too fast…🌸💖✨