MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Live-Action Movie Has Finally Found Its He-Man!

The long-awaited Masters of the Universe live-action movie has finally found its He-Man, but is he the right fit for the iconic character? You can find out more about the actor in question right here...

By JoshWilding - May 29, 2024 01:05 PM EST

Filed Under: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

It feels like the movie has been in the works forever, but the live-action Masters of the Universe movie is finally taking shape at Amazon MGM.

Bumblebee's Travis Knight is set to direct, while writer Chris Butler (who worked with Knight on the animated Laika) is penning the screenplay. David Callaham, Aaron Nee and Adam Nee all contributed to earlier drafts.

As we first reported on SFFGazette.com, the big news today is the fact we have a He-Man: Nicholas Galitzine.

He's best known for starring in Amazon's romcoms Purple Hearts, Red, White & Royal Blue, and The Idea of You, and recently received praise for his work alongside Julianne Moore in Mary & George. Black Adam star Noah Centineo was previously attached to the role but exited in 2021.

While not confirmed, Sacha Baron Cohen has been rumoured to be in the running to play Skeletor.

"We’re thrilled to bring the beloved Masters of the Universe to life and couldn’t be more excited to announce the immensely talented Nicholas Galitzine as our He-Man," says Julie Rapaport, head of film production and development at Amazon MGM Studios.

"Joining forces with director Travis Knight, Mattel, and Escape Artists," she adds, "this reintroduction of the character and his universe will be an epic film that will delight audiences from here to Eternia."

Masters of the Universe will be produced by Escape Artists' Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch, as well as Mattel Films' Robbie Brenner. Despite Amazon's involvement (the company acquired MGM in 2021), the movie is set to be released theatrically.

He-Man is the heroic protagonist of the Masters of the Universe franchise, which originated with a line of action figures produced by Mattel in the early 1980s. He-Man is the alter ego of Prince Adam, the royal son of King Randor and Queen Marlena in the kingdom of Eternia.

When Prince Adam raises his magical Sword of Power and declares, "By the power of Grayskull, I have the power!" he transforms into He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe.

The character gained widespread popularity through the animated television series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which aired from 1983 to 1985, spawning a vast array of merchandise, comic books, and a cult following. Netflix rebooted the property with 2021's Masters of the Universe: Revelation.

Masters of the Universe will be released in theaters on June 5, 2026.

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xfactor - 5/29/2024, 1:36 PM

He better be putting on some SERIOUS weight

braunermegda - 5/29/2024, 3:14 PM

@xfactor - of course he will don't be dumb, guy's probably already juicing as [frick]

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 1:38 PM

Nice casting. At least he's white and they didn't change his race. Hopefully the rest of the cast follows suit and is also accurate.

Guy could have been Superman too. Wish him the best and hope the movie is good!

JackBurton1 - 5/29/2024, 1:46 PM

@HermanM - A 5'11 Supes?Nah ....it's going to be nice to actually have a Supes sized actor this time around.

ComicBandit - 5/29/2024, 1:48 PM

@HermanM - He's also a singer. So maybe we will get that musical number I've been expecting between him and Skeletor.

OleBobbyTiger - 5/29/2024, 1:56 PM

@HermanM - What was your old account name on here? Assuming you were banned at least once for race-bait trolling.

darthgeekboy - 5/29/2024, 2:02 PM

@HermanM -
make sure you emphasize the WHITE part. gotta maintain that MASTER RACE cred, amiright?!

WruceBayne - 5/29/2024, 2:04 PM

@OleBobbyTiger - he definitely was.

grouch - 5/29/2024, 2:05 PM

@darthgeekboy - yes.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 2:15 PM

@darthgeekboy - you mean like how race is always emphasized with a non white superhero and is brought up every 5 seconds?

No, I'm just pleasantly surprised when I see a white character accurately cast in the current year.

Why does that bother you so much?

WruceBayne - 5/29/2024, 2:33 PM

@HermanM - just wondering if you were all up in arms when EVERY character in Exodus: Gods & Kings were race swapped with Caucasians? Those individuals were actual people and not figment of someone’s imagination.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 2:53 PM

@WruceBayne - Nope, because those characters are all supposed to be white.

A white person is any of the original peoples of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa. So those castings in Exodus God's & Kings are entirely accurate because they are white.

Meanwhile, real life historical white figures in addition to fictional ones are race replaced all of the time, like Hamilton.

WruceBayne - 5/29/2024, 3:04 PM

@HermanM - you’re telling me that thee original people people from Egypt were Caucasian? I have a hard time with sarcasm, it’s difficult for me to detect. Just so I’m absolutely clear, you’re telling me that the Pharaoh's of Egypt were white skinned?

ManofwooD - 5/29/2024, 3:06 PM

@HermanM - He-man is an alien, what does race have to do with anything retardo?

Odekahn - 5/29/2024, 3:14 PM

@ManofwooD - it wouldn’t have anything to do with it, if it weren’t for the decades of established history that he’s white 🤦🏻‍♂️

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 3:18 PM

@WruceBayne - Yep they're white. Just as many of them are today still, from their leaders to beauty contestants.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 3:19 PM

@ManofwooD - he's an alien that's a white man. Duh.

comicfan100 - 5/29/2024, 3:26 PM

@HermanM - Egypt was conqured and colonized by the Romans and Arabs since antiquity, so I doubt they looked like that back then.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 3:30 PM

@comicfan100 - OK. Agree to disagree. I agree with the US census definition of who is white, which is any of the original peoples of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa. The leaders and many of the populations within those regions are white today still, they are white in their cultural art and media portrayals of themselves, and are therefore white.

They're definitely not sub saharan blacks like you believe.

EskimoJ - 5/29/2024, 3:38 PM

@HermanM - Agree to disagree about history?

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 3:39 PM

@EskimoJ - The Egyptians are white. He disagrees. I said agree to disagree then. Have a nice day

comicfan100 - 5/29/2024, 4:42 PM

@HermanM - What's considered "white" changes over the years. At one point, Irish weren't even considered white until the powers that be wanted to crush unions and gain more power. So, your argument doesn't make a lot of sense. I said they probably didn't look like that, not whether or not they were white. I'm not race obsessed like some people.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 4:54 PM

@comicfan100 - Doesn't matter, they were white, and existed whether we had a name for our race then or not, just as what goes up came down before we were calling it gravity, and people still got sick prior to the use of the word "germs".

The Irish were always white in the US, the conflicts they had with other whites were over what version of Christianity they followed.

It's funny how you guys always argue that white people don't exist yet know exactly who is white if they get a job you think a nonwhite person should have.

asherman93 - 5/29/2024, 5:00 PM

@HermanM - ….why does his being white matter?

comicfan100 - 5/29/2024, 5:01 PM

@HermanM - Race is a societal construct made to uphold a status quo that if challenged cripples your entire world view. I think race is stupid, but I believe it's very much real because of how certain people are able to move through the world. You keep trying to make me out to be this "anti-white racist" when I'm just pointing out thr flaws in your logic.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 5:06 PM

@asherman93 - because the character is white, so a white actor should play him, and thankfully is.

Contrary to many other characters in recent history who are white and race changed in movies by people who insist that race doesn't matter yet insist on changing it.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 5:08 PM

@comicfan100 - There's no flaws in the logic: a white character is being played by a white actor.

Race exists whether you call it some other name or not, just as gravity and germs exist whether you call it some other name. A rose is a rose by any other name. I'm a fan of "societal constructs" to describe existing things then.

White people make white babies, black people make black babies, asian people make asian babies, indian people make indian babies and so on. Race is real.

EskimoJ - 5/29/2024, 5:19 PM

@HermanM - Also, per this same Census Bureau with its ever-changing definitions:

"New 'Middle Eastern or North African' Category
The updated SPD 15 adds a new, dedicated 'Middle Eastern or North African' (MENA) category. In the previous 1997 SPD 15, MENA respondents were defined and tabulated within the White racial category.

Extensive engagement with the Middle Eastern or North African community has shown strong support for a MENA category and the need for demographic and socioeconomic statistics about its population to inform policy decisions, health research, civil rights monitoring and enforcement, and many other needs."

TL;DR Source: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2024/04/updates-race-ethnicity-standards.html#:~:text=New%20%E2%80%9CMiddle%20Eastern%20or%20North,enforcement%2C%20and%20many%20other%20needs.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 5:26 PM

@EskimoJ -

1853 art from Iranians depicting themselves:

They're white.

The only reason why white people run away from being called white now is that there are no institutional benefits to being white, but rather stigma. They are the lowest on the preferential treatment hierarchy.

TheNewYorker - 5/29/2024, 6:35 PM

@HermanM - If everyone here were all in the same room i bet you wouldn’t open your mouth. Would be too scared of getting punched in it.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 6:44 PM

@TheNewYorker - And why would you respond with violence over what I've said? Because you have no argument.

asherman93 - 5/29/2024, 6:57 PM

@HermanM - pretty sure the character’s ethnicity and skin color wasn’t an essential part of his characterization, so a race lift would’ve been benign at worst.
Pretty sure it’ll still be irrelevant to whether the film sucks or not.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 7:04 PM

@asherman93 - You only say that because the character is white. "Race is a very important part of nonwhite characters, but doesn't matter at all for white characters" ...it either matters for everyone or no one. If it only matters for nonwhites but doesn't for whites, you have an anti white double standard.

Epc11223 - 5/29/2024, 7:08 PM

@HermanM - wouldn’t it be awesome if they did something like Shazam or the old hulk show where they have more than one actor for the same part. When he turns from prince adam to he-man he goes from the actor they just hired to someone like Xavier woods, sterling k brown, or Peter Dinklage?? I’m sure you agree 😉

valmic - 5/29/2024, 7:11 PM

@OleBobbyTiger - Dude gets banned every month for like 2 years now.

Negaduck - 5/29/2024, 9:44 PM

@HermanM - i think his argument is to kick your ass which i think is a very good argument

RalphHanley - 5/29/2024, 10:03 PM

@OleBobbyTiger - It's obviously clearly troll feeding. What's odd is that EVERY time they have tried to get this movie off the ground, for almost 15+ years, every actor tied to playing He-Man, some officially announced were white. In my opinion there was no reason to even make the comment about race swapping He-Man it was purely brought up just to instigate chaos in the thread about a topic that consumes a hand full of the usuals here who bots drones for the YouTube 24 hour "w@ke chasers" channels looking to rage grift. Ultimately they don't care, it'll be on to the next comment section to pot stir.

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 10:19 PM

@Negaduck - Why? So he can lose a fight and an argument?

HermanM - 5/29/2024, 10:40 PM

@RalphHanley - There were nonwhites rumored for the role before (like pretty much whenever a movie about a white character is being cast now).

ManofwooD - 5/30/2024, 8:02 AM

@Odekahn - He has an established history of being a fictional alien from Eternia but whatever rocks your boat, keep fighting the “good” fight

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