#live action Voltron

[dynared]

The VLD fandom holding on to Shiro, ships, and their fandom one week before the show is taken off streaming, possibly forever.

Amazon MGM announcing their cast for their big budget live-action Voltron movie starring Henry Cavill, promising it will have nothing to do with VLD and starring a new cast of characters within the same week with a focus on giant robots.

[kai-lockman]

Actually killing my self because of the live action voltron movie thing......ITS NOT EVEN VOLTRON ANYMORE THAT'S FUCKING TRANSFORMERS I'M GONNA KILL SOMEONE IF KLANCE ISN'T A POSSIBILITY OR IT THEY REPLACE THE CAST U CAN'T DO THAT THEY HAVE BEEN THE SAME SINCE THE FUCKING 80S I HATE THE FUCKING EARTH I'M NEVER WATCHING THAT GOD AWFUL MOVIE BECAUSE THAT SHIT AIN'T VOLTRON I HATE PRODUCTION COMPANIES OMFG!!!!!

[proselles]

live action voltron. I think we should be put down as a species.

[foxgl-ove]

[stargirl-astra]

Oh god no....

[beetlecakes]

John Kim who played Ezekiel jones will be playing in the live action Voltron movie

My worlds are colliding

[jimiscribif]

I want the writers of the Live Action Voltron film to know if they give their version of Allura a happy ending I will give it 5 stars NO MATTER WHAT

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Is it bad that im glad they're not going for big name actors voltron literally employs child soldiers (or at least young adults if we consider dotu) so these actors should ALL be kids

also someone get this kid contacts, im tired of blue eyes being leader material and i feel it in my GUT that he's gonna be the new leader

WEP if you're listening PLEASE make the team like each other this time, the giant robot you made literally thrives off of teamwork

[goth1c-pinki3-pi3]

i made a list of reasons why i should be cast for the live action voltron keith. now im sharing it.

1) i am man

2) i have anger issues

3) i have isolation issues

4) i have paranoia

5) i rock a mullet

6) i rock black hair

7) i can do the emo make up

8) im pretty cool

9) i know his character very intimately (ive done a lot of non official character studies on him)

10) i would gladly get top surgery for the role

11) i would be a crowd favorite off screen (like bloopers, talking to fans, answering questions, etc)

12) i would get along well with the crew

13) i would bring a good vibe to the set

14) im pretty decent at remembering lines

15) i got a pretty good poker face

16) i consider myself very similar to keith

[sprinklethetangerine]

Woah woah. Wait a minute. LIVE ACTION?!?! MOVIE!!!????

I told myself I wasn't gonna draw them again until the 10 year anniversary but the news about the live action movie put them in my brain again. they're a good lineup of characters it's literally not my fault

[ameliadoesstuff]

so how are we all feeling

[dynared]

So there's apparently a rumor going around that the Voltron movie will not use the names of the dub characters synonymous with the Paladins from Voltron Legendary Defender and will instead have a team of new brave space explorers and presumably a new princess.

And...I kind of get it. VLD left nothing but bad feelings and unsuccessful everything else. Bad ratings, bad merchandise sales, and bad optics. And what better way to put the focus back on Voltron the super robot and off of the weirdos going "KICK KICK KICK" than to not have a Keith or a Lance, but instead have, I dunno, a team composed of four guys named Hyouma, Juzo, Daisaku, Kousuke, and a princess named Fala. That way, you immediately kill the people demanding certain pairings.

Keep in mind that's a rumor, but one that seems to have been traced to the VoltCon 2023 panel (where producer and head of WEP Bob Koplar keeps court over the franchise). After all, the easiest way to put out a fire is to deprive it of oxygen, and a lack of Keith and Lance would do that. You can't ship Klance if Keith and Lance aren't there.

[sugurugetos]

Defenders of the Universe, huh? Has a nice ring to it. @pscentral Event 28 (Throwback): Voltron: Legendary Defender

[dynared]

The movie is at the point where it will be made because it has passed several milestones that none of the other attempts at a Voltron movie had.

Sets are being built as we speak, and there is a targeted filming date. None of the other attempts made it to casting, let alone set building.

Set building (verified by Australian film industry members noting that Voltron has called for so many set builders other productions have needed to recruit outside their usual circles to deal with the shortage of manpower) is something tangible in a way that none of the other productions have reached. If you're building sets, making props, and casting more than just the lead, you're investing in something that will result in a big loss if you don't produce a product. So I can safely say that with set milestones and a set filming date, the film will be made for a possible 2026 release.

As for the plot of the movie, hoo boy. Bob Koplar, executive producer of the film, has claimed at VoltCon 2023 that he didn't want to use ANY of the existing names from the original show. Whether you believe his explanation that he's doing so to give the writers more freedom, or like me you suspect he would memory wipe Legendary Defender from the entire internet Men in Black style if he could, it's not going to be a 1:1 of Defenders of the Universe, and will likely by his decree have nothing in common with Legendary Defender.

I still maintain my theory that the movie will be an Earth invasion film that will have Henry Cavill as the senior military man commanding a new team of Robot Lion pilots against the Drule (no word on who yet, but the rumor is Liev Schreiber, who played Ray Donovan, will be the main villain) with a tone likely more similar to Dancougar or Combattler V than Voltron. There may be references to a previous group of lion pilots, but they won't appear.

Also, between Henry Cavill, Daniel Quinn-Toye, and Liev Schreiber, I expect the tone to be VERY different from VLD, with more of a focus on the guys in the audience.

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.

[angelosearch]

It's an oddly specific gender... (technically Razer has facial tattoos but that's a form of scarring!)

[nighmoons]

stop trending voltron pls i am trying to survive 2024 with my sanity intact