Masters of the Universe Movie News, Update: Jeff Wadlow Delivers New Script for Upcoming Reboot
Back in April 2014, it was reported that "Kick-Ass" 2 director Jeff Wadlow would be forgoing the task of writing the script for the upcoming "Masters of the Universe" reboot film project.
Since then, rumors surrounding Mattel's "He-Man" movie died down. Now, recent developments report indicated Senior Vice President of Production at Columbia Pictures Devon Franklin took to his social media to announce the good news.
In his Twitter, Franklin posted a copy of the script's title page, marked and dated Dec. 24, 2014.
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Before Jeff Wadlow's completion of the screenplay draft, penning of the MOTU script was handed by various writers including "Pirates of the Caribbean" 1-4 writer Terry Rossio, "The Equalizer's" Richard Wenk, and writing duo of "Predator" Alex Litvak and Michael Finch.
Screen Rant speculated that based on the film credits, the forthcoming title would be a "fun action/fantasy offering" that is nonetheless "more straight-faced than camp-tastic."
The publication further indicated that it is still not clear if the names mentioned would be credited for their artistic contributions on the final acknowledgement.
JoBlo.com meanwhile reported Wadlow's participation in a podcast for He-Man.org. In it he discussed the process he went through in making maquettes, the character designs, the visual effects pre-visualization and a cut trailer which he presented for Columbia.
Several other reports also pointed out that Wadlow is rooted to direct "Masters of the Universe" given the fact that the studio had already given the approval of his script.
The popular multi-media property revolves around the fight between He-Man/She-Ra and Skeletor set in the world of Eternia.
