Wait, did I get my excruciatingly awful 80s cartoons based on toys mixed up in my headline? Oh my!
There are two new dudes taking the scripting duties for a big screen treatment of He-Man (notice how we always pretend that it was called Masters of the Universe, which sounds kind of cool, when it was really the ultra-awful He-Man and the Masters of the Universe?), and they’re the dudes who wrote Predators.
Mike Finch and Alex Litvak have signed on to write the movie for Columbia, and in case you’re worried about their take on the material… well, get a grip if you’re a grown up worried about someone’s take on He-Man. God love you, you’re getting worried about the integrity of a property that includes a guy named STINKOR.*
Anyway, here’s their take:
In their pitch, the scribes attempted to balance a treatment that would convince the studio it was cinematic and keep the toy company satisfied that its characters were being portrayed appropriately.
I know that so many young screenwriters are sitting out there saying to themselves, ‘Someday I hope to get a job where most of my creative effort will go into a balancing act to keep two different gargantuan corporations happy.’ That’s really why we got into the movies in the first place, right?
* before you get all up in arms at my casual dismissal of the He-Man property, know that I too owned Castle Greyskull. I read the He-Man comics from DC. But I’m now a grown man and realize there is nothing to this property of any value.