Different as in not campy or different as in not on Eternia?

Whatever keeps the franchise alive!

@mrhootiedean Keeping the franchise alive was also the goal with New Adventures. I hope the differences are not as severe.

@mrhootiedean Sarcasm? Otherwise an embarrassingly bad take.

@mrhootiedean I know your thought process is coming from a good place but as already stated that was the plan with New Adventures and the plan for the Netflix series for children. They were more interested in capturing a new generation of fans rather than playing to the existing fans and existing lore. I want the franchise to survive too but at what cost? Morphing into something I barely recognize won't be worth it to me if that is what's happening here.

@longtooth New Adventures wasn't really that bad. I think it just got lost is a mess of a lot of other cartoons along with a toy line that didn't match up with its predecessor.

So Skeletor is gonna be an unfunny villian. It is 87 all over again

New Adventures became to be because they wanted it to be more like Star Trek TNG because that was all the rage back then. Those that liked MOTU for what it was hated it because it lost so much of what they liked; those that like TNG probably where not even aware of Mattels attempt.

It found its niche within a niche. But aiming for exotic new niches should stay with big established names like Batman. With core MOTU and its Hyperborean/retro SciFi/Post-Apocalyptic mix setting there is so much unexplored...

Oh well, time will tell.

If our He-Man hunk means less silly and more serious than I am fine with it except when it comes to Skeletor. He has always been a different kind of villian with many layers that includes an evil sense of humor.

Meh...

These words ring hollow to me, every iteration of Masters of the Universe is different from the original, there has never been a real attempt at replicating the whimsy of the Filmation cartoon, not even in the edgier Revelation/Revolution, except maybe through a more cynical lens. Of all those attempts at reinvention, everything is ignored in order to contrast the movie to the most well-remembered version. Doesn't say a hell of a lot about them does it?

It is going to be a generic embarassing Sci-Fantasy film with MOTU title slapped on it.

Why couldn't he say we took a lot of inspiration from the old cartoon? Fans would love that.

That right there. He is dismissing the heart of this fandom as camp and of its time. If the writer and director are dismissive of Filmation too then we are in big trouble.

Hollywood must understand that its audience for this production is people in their 40s who were children in the 80s and what we want is not for them to get creative, but for them to show us the same story that we already know but with real people, in any case. the same story as the 200x version, the current generations don't even care and that's why the new animated version on Netflix failed, so rewrite and only adapt the story that already exists or wait for another failure

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Hollywood must understand that its audience for this production is people in their 40s who were children in the 80s and what we want is not for them to get creative, but for them to show us the same story that we already know but with real people, in any case. the same story as the 200x version, the current generations don't even care and that's why the new animated version on Netflix failed, so rewrite and only adapt the story that already exists or wait for another failure

 

I’ll keep an open mind but Adam on Earth as a ten year old? Sounds like Marlena must have won the custody battle.

I love new MOTU news!