Written by Well this is exciting! *Possible Spoilers Ahead!*
Masters of the Universe superfan and historian Jukka Isaakainen revealed on Facebook today what appears to be behind-the-scenes photos of filming for the “Masters of the Universe” Movie!
Check it out:
Here is a zoomed in look at the teeth.
It certainly looks like the jawbridge of the Castle Grayskull to us!
And this certainly looks like actor Nicholas Galitzine in his Earth Prince Adam costume:
And with a black platform on the ground (something that would be seen coming off a landed spacecraft) surrounded by a green screen, perhaps this is a scene of Skeletor capturing and bringing Prince Adam back to Eternia?
Exciting stuff!
Thanks again to @jukka for sharing the awesome pics!
Update:
More behind-the-scenes filming of the new “Masters of the Universe” Movie seems to reveal…
- Possible Staff of Evil-Lyn
- Skeletor’s Havoc Staff
- Large CG Being (Possibly Beast Man)
- Skeletal Warriors
(Thanks to @he-dad for the pic!)
I wonder if this Castle Grayskull is man made. The base looks wooden and the drawbridge has bolts between the teeth.
Maybe the wood is covered by a mist or something because a man-made Castle Grayskull would be stupid.
I thought the same. First miss by the director. Grayskull is NOT man made!!!
Agreed. Keep it magical. No screws bolts gears or cranks.
Oh my Gray-skuuuuuull !?
This could be great!! Now show me Beastman!
@bearddadrip Bro I found this on Facebook. By the staffs you can tell one is Skeletor one is Evil-Lyn and the guy with the backpack and three balls could be a mo cap for Beast man.
It could be. The left and right of the harness is shoulder length. If not Beast Man the character it represents is going to be huge.
@he-dad I hope you’re correct! I can’t wait to see him in live action!
Aha!! No wonder the Mattel theme park isn’t open yet… they’re using parts of it for the movie set! 🤣
JK, this is getting more and more exciting… I still wonder if it will have any ties to the ’87 movie.
No offense mate but I rather not see any connection to that movie.
It’s likely 1988 before I saw the movie, making me 6. I just never had any problem with it and still don’t. I think it’s because the MOTU cartoon and countless movies gave me the imagination that led to me realising what was and wasn’t possible back then. Like I can’t credit that mix of magic and science enough because that was the spark that led to me being fascinated by all the late 80s and 90s cyborgs, radiation this and mutation that (and cartoons aren’t given enough due when it comes to presenting science and technology).
So even then I understood Orko and Battle Cat weren’t possible and the characters wouldn’t look like the cartoon (ffs my figures didn’t look like the cartoon). I just accepted it.
I think a massive part of the problem was the film got labelled as a bomb so that’s what it became (though I absolutely accept the Earth cheapness problem etc). If you check the old reviews it’s all ‘A kid’s toyline!?’, when what really happened was Mattel were too far ahead of the curve through desperation. People forget this was decades ahead of the GI Joe and Transformers movies.
A lot of people, I think, need to retry the original movie for themselves rather than with just received wisdom. Put it this way, if nothing else it’s got the fun that’s missing from the vast majority of movies today because the scripts and now incredibly boring CGI are beyond flat. You only have to look at the 2026 movie and realise there’s a big push for animatronics and real sets there too. That’s almost unheard of today.
I love the 87 movie dude. Lundgren was perfect as He-Man. Langella added the right amount of ham. Foster was perfect casting and Lubic was the man. The only complaint I have is Saurod died too soon.
This, x 100!
I still make it a point to watch Masters of the Universe every year on its anniversary in August!
I have a deep fondness for this flick 😀
It improves with age. With all the crap movies that comes out now the 87 flick looks better and better.
I was not making a criticism towards the 1987 movie itself rather I have no desire for this new movie to have ties to it.
Oh yeah, just riffing on what you’d said!
@ornclown this made me laugh so hard !! thank u ~!! 💕
I don’t like how much CGI this will need to be finished. Mocap Beastman is fine, but in a shot like this i feel like we should see Skeletor and Evil-Lyn. Neither of them really require CGI.
@smitty-81 good point, smitty ! i adore practical effects (yes, i know somethings will HAVE to be cgi to be possible) but i hope we get as many real physical sets as possible, as many scenes filmed on location as possible, physical weapons etc. and i agree with u, there is no reason why evil-lyn needs any cgi at all and skeletor is entirely possible with minimal computer graphics. there was a marvel show recently, agatha all along, in which aubrey plaza potrays lady death and they gave her a pretty convincing and visually cool looking prosthetic skull face to wear over the lower half of her real face. i saw that and thought; “oh yeah, that’d be perfect for skeletor!" in jared leto’s case, we’d just need some extra white latex makeup to go around the rest of his head (oh, and a bald cap too!) then you cgi out his eyes and noise and viola ! ✨ 😁
I think they are rehearsing the scene and that is why they are wearing heavy coats.
@gatorrob i though that too but I’m not sure if films do rehearsals like that, on set. Maybe they do I just don’t know.
@smitty-81 I think they use body doubles first to make sure they know what they are doing before the real stars show up.
*gasps* who could that be carrying evil-lyn’s staff ? maybe it is evil-lyn herself…only wearing like a long, black hooded robe to cover her identity. perhaps in this scene, she is disguising herself.
as for the one carrying skeletor’s havok staff…..hmmm? well, what if it’s pig-boy? 😁 (like that scene in the ’87 movie where he was keeping skeletor’s staff warm for him. maybe there will be a reference to that moment in the new movie, skeletor walks past pig-boy and takes the staff from him! lmao)
If those skeleton guards had horns they could be Skelcons. Unless Skelcons are in another part of the movie that is a missed opportunity.
Grayskull is not man made! Strike one…
Not even considering the budget it had to work with, and the massive expectations, on top of the hellish production that was constantly under scrutiny, the ’87 film is just plain fun.
It is the epitome of 80s sci-fi / fantasy that uses whimsical practical effects, lots of humor (both intentional and not) and a masterful performance by Frank Langella.