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Voltron Movie - And I'll Form The Head!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:58 am
by Ian
Yup, yet another 80's cartoon being made into a movie:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... ltron_dc_1

The movie plot sounds a lot like the comic that was released a year or two ago.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:32 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Hrm... I wonder if it will be any good? I was never a big fan of Voltron personally, so I know only very little about it.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:28 pm
by voltron
Nice. I'm excited.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:40 pm
by Ian
I'm more excited about Robotech: Shadow Chronicles

Why do I have a feeling that Voltron will be nothing more than PR knockoff.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:58 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:I'm more excited about Robotech: Shadow Chronicles

Why do I have a feeling that Voltron will be nothing more than PR knockoff.


Shadow Chronicles.... now *THAT* I'm interested in!! :D

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:25 pm
by Ian
Have you seen the trailer yet? =P~

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:17 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:Have you seen the trailer yet? =P~


I was at the premier of it! It was first shown at Sakuracon 2005 in Seattle, where I happened to be attending. I met the voice actor who played Roy Fokker as well, and managed to win both a Max Sterling Limited (book) edition Vertech fighter, as well as the corraponding super Vertech battle armour :D

It was very fun! The trailer looked good too \:D/

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:53 pm
by Ian
There was a new extended one at Comic-Con:

http://www.robotechespanol.com/componen ... nt,folder/

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:11 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:There was a new extended one at Comic-Con:

http://www.robotechespanol.com/componen ... nt,folder/


Dang! Lucky Comic-con!!

I find it funny how the Voltron thread has been hijacked by Robotech though! :lol:

Out of curiousity, have you ever read the Robotech novels?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:21 pm
by Ian
dolphinius_rex wrote:Out of curiousity, have you ever read the Robotech novels?


Yes, I own all of them. :D

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:46 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:
dolphinius_rex wrote:Out of curiousity, have you ever read the Robotech novels?


Yes, I own all of them. :D


I'm still sad that Sentinals was never released entirely in Anime format :cry:

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:03 pm
by Ian
From what I saw from the first few Sentinels cartoons... it wasn't as good as the other stuff. The books weren't as good IMO either. I never did read the Sentinels comics so I dunno about that.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:46 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:From what I saw from the first few Sentinels cartoons... it wasn't as good as the other stuff. The books weren't as good IMO either. I never did read the Sentinels comics so I dunno about that.


I enjoyed the novels... but yeah, not as good as the other series'. Well... better then Southern Cross :lol:

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:45 pm
by Ian
Latinoreview.com has posted a review of the script. It sounds a lot better than the script for the new G.I. Joe movie.

http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=65

THE SCRIPT ROCKS! I give it THE STRONGEST CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE THAT A SCREENPLAY CAN RECEIVE if I was the story editor at the studio considering Voltron. Mark Gordon is going to have a bidding war on his hands with Voltron after TRANSFORMERS opens. Anyone who passes on Voltron has got to be a fucking idiot.
So let’s get down to it! What’s the setup?

What is so damn cool about the script is that it pays homage to both incarnations of the Voltron cartoon – the American and Japanese versions. GOLION came out back in 1981 in Japan, three years later in America. GOLION was considered too hardcore for American audiences so it was edited down into what would be VOLTRON. Wikpedia nailed down the differences of Voltron and Golion in an awesome article and expose of the Voltron phenomenon, check it out.

The script has the tone, edge and dark elements of GOLION.

VOLTRON is a post apocalyptic movie and a fucking awesome one at that too. Just the way it should be because that was the setup of both cartoons. A little bit of ROAD WARRIOR, a little bit INDEPENDENCE DAY, a little bit WAR OF THE WORLDS, a little bit of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, a little bit of THE TERMINATOR, and a little bit of THE MATRIX with some STARGATE thrown in for good measure!

Also, none of the elements that made Voltron corny are in the script – no Nanny, no Hagar, and especially no fucking space mice! In fact, no corniness at all!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:15 pm
by Wesociety
Man, this year has been a blast from the past in childhood cartoons turned movies. Transformers, GI Joe, TMNT, Voltron... What's next? :)

With a good script review like that, I'm psyched about this new Voltron flick.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:24 pm
by Ian
Wesociety wrote:Man, this year has been a blast from the past in childhood cartoons turned movies. Transformers, GI Joe, TMNT, Voltron... What's next? :)


Thundercats. Seriously.. there's a Thundercats movie in the works.