MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Lumbered With THE LONE RANGER Co-Writer; Loses Director

Well frick this now. I belived Chu would have done a good job too. What a shame.

This movie will never get made.

Well..losing Chu is a bonus imo! Maybe they'll hire an actual director now at least.

Kellan Lutz for He-man? You're not going to find many A-list actors to play him. I would say Sam Worthington, but not many people like him. He's too old I think, and Chris Hemsworth is already Thor, so that's a big NO.

Who would you cast?

Charlie Hunnam.

LOL, I'm joking of course.

Idris Elba is the only natural choice for He-Man ;)

John Chu is gone. Thank FLUCKING God!!!

I'm so [frick]ing glad Chu is out. He's terrible.

Seriously...
Who the hell wants or is asking for a Master of the Universe movie?

"lumbered"?

Do you mean "burdened with" or "encumbered by" or even "stuck with"?

You're one of the leading contributors on this site, man. Tell your editors to throw you a bone.

Good.. Chu would have ruined it.

MOTU needs to be adult-oriented, barbaric, and bloody.

The Lone Ranger was a good movie in my opinion. It flopped because of bad marketing. The trailers made it look lame, but I actually really enjoyed it. Plus, Pirates 1, 2, and 4 were good. So this writer is still good in my book.

I liked G.I. Joe 2 (ten times better than the first), but I didn't love it, so the news about Chu leaving doesn't strike me as either good or bad.

Can't say I care, at this point, if this movie gets made or not but if it does, my vote for He-Man goes to Manu Bennett.

And who ever gets to play He Man. He needs to be seriously ripped. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ripped.

@ Josh

It was called Grayskull about five or six ago, back before Columbia acquired it and David Goyer protege Justin Marks (who wrote the Green Arrow Escape from SuperMax and Voltron scripts) was attached as the writer.

That script is now widely available on line to read (under Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe)and honestly, it wasn't too bad a read. It tried a little too hard to be "bad ass", He-Man doesn't actually happen until the climax (heh) and I don't think Marks quite got his head around Skeletor, but it's a fun read.

As for John Chu leaving... well... it's not a make or break thing, but I suspect he would have been the guy to marry the really cool aspects of the classic MoTU to a modern take. I think after this rewrite, MoTU might be going to sleep for awhile unless someone who'll make this a big, shiny Transformers-like commodity comes along and makes it look like something they can make a quick buck on.

Rossio has written some good stuff (Aladdin, Men in Black, Shrek, The Mask of Zorro, PoTC: Curse of the Black Pearl), but he also gave us Godzilla ('98), National Treasure, PoTC: On Stranger Tides (which wasn't awful but still disappointing) and of course, The Lone Ranger. His adaptation approach can be hit or miss and he's definitely an example of the law of diminishing returns.