Over at the MTV movies blog, they've posted up some info on the new He-Man movie which is in pre-production right now. The article interviews the film's screenwriter Justin Marks and gets a few details from him as to how the film will be presented:
“I grew up on the ‘He-Man’ cartoon and watched ‘He-Man’ six days a week. The notion that I think we most took from the cartoon are the characters, and trying to find a way that is true to them,” he said of his planned adaptation, which is currently in development at Warner Brothers. “Now, at the same time, we had to come up with why that is the way it is. I mean you’re talking about sword-and-sandal meets science fiction meets fantasy meets everything, and how does that all kind of blend into the same world? And so we had to come up with very specific rules that explained why Trapjaw looks the way he looks, and why Cyclops — who is awesome — looks the way he looks.”
Call it the “Batman Begins-ification” of He-Man, the shift of tone that helped make “The Dark Knight” so wildly successful, and is now being copied in varying degrees with reinventions of characters as diverse as Robocop, James Bond, and Red Sonja.
So they're going for realism...with He-Man? The same He-Man who fights a guy with a skull for a head, and who rides around on the back of a giant green cat? Ok, sure.
I guess it can't hurt to try something new though. Afterall, they'd have to try really hard to make a film worse than the original He-Man live action film. So I guess no matter what they do, it will look pretty good by comparison.
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