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


    Thundercats is in pre-production, slated for 2010.

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

  3. 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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