Richard Suckie and Ted Koplar, the producers of the live action film, have confirmed the fact that they are indeed still working on voltron. This was unexpected seeing as multiple sources we're saying that the film had been scrapped. They plan to release the film after the tie-in television series....that's right. A new animated series is serving as "a lead-in to the live-action film"
The producers sat down with MTV to talk about the film:
"As much as it has a very strong robot element, this is a movie and a franchise that is driven by characters — these five people that in some or another are a representation of all of us. It's really about how you have five different personalities working together in order to come together to form Voltron.
The whole show is about teamwork — about a group of kids with various backgrounds who learn that the only way they'll succeed is through the positive parts of each one's background and bringing it together to make the robot work.
It's not like we're doing anything far different from the source material other than to make it a character-driven film. The effects, the 3-D... The eye candy is the easy part. It's got to be a movie that has really dynamic, interesting characters and a really strong narrative. You know the eye candy is going to be there, because it's part of the fabric of the original material.
So that character-driven element is really what we're focusing on, and that's what the writers that we've been talking to have been told about what we want and what we're looking for.
I'm kind of on the fence with this one, but I only hope that these guys use Micheal Bay and Stephen Sommers as examples of what NOT to do. Other than that, I can't wait to see more.
How do you guys feel about the creation of both the new animated series and the live-action film? How do you think the film should be approached? Fan casts?