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Voltron Headed For The Big Screen

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thank-god-its-the-lion-voltron dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the success of the Transformers movie, Hollywood is preparing to make another live-action film featuring giant robots from the 1980s: 'Voltron: Defender of the Universe'. The script, by Justin Marks, is described as '...a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico. Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.' Let's go, Voltron force!"

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  1. Re:Original by falcon5768 · · Score: 4, Informative
    There is a good reason that it is the same thing. Go-Lion (the anime Voltron came from in Japan) was a anime version of the Super Sentai shows there... which is what eventually power rangers was developed out of.

    Technically Power Rangers is much older. The series had started as early as the mid 70's

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  2. Re:Voltron is Japanese.. by alexgieg · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean like a giant alien robot made out of five smaller robots shaped like lions that wields a sword?
    No, he means something like this or this.
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  3. Re:CoPA bait by countjared · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, she was fifteen at the start of the series. She turned 16 (Sweet Sixteen episode) around episode 7 or 8. Then she would have been like 18 or 19 by the end of the series.

  4. Re:What's next??? by gatzke · · Score: 4, Informative


    Thundercats is in pre-production, slated for 2010.

    http://imdb.com/title/tt1047015/

  5. Re:Original by petsounds · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, no. Voltron took a huge influence from the anime series Gatchaman which ran in the early 1970s. It was the first anime to feature team dynamics, and set up many standard elements of later anime shows. It was produced by Tatsunoko Studios, who also did such early series as Speed Racer and Astro Boy. It was (and still is) a hugely loved series by the Japanese. Gatchaman was later brought to the States in Americanized, no-violence form as "G-Force: Battle of the Planets." Incidentally, Gatchaman is also in production as a movie, although it is being done in CG.

  6. No, seriously, shut up. by StarKruzr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Transformers was way, WAY better than ANYONE expected, and you know it. It was a great popcorn flick and didn't try to be anything more.

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