Henry Cavill to Star in Voltron Live-Action Movie
By Movieguide® Contributor
Henry Cavill is set to headline an upcoming live-action Voltron movie coming from Amazon MGM Studios.
Cavill joins the previously announced Daniel Quinn-Toye who is making his movie debut with the project. Quinn-Toye previously served as Tom Holland’s understudy in the stage production of “Romeo & Juliet” on the West End this spring.
Plot details of the movie are being kept under wraps, though the project is expected to follow the basic plot outline set by previous iterations of the story.
“VOLTRON is based on the Japanese sci-fi series BEAST KING GOLION and KIKOU KANTAI DAIRUGGER XV,” The Hollywood Reporter explains. “World Events edited and dubbed the series as a syndicated show, naming it VOLTRON: DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE, which ran in the mid-1980s. The premise centered on five young pilots in a battalion named the Robot Lions, which are vehicles that join together to form a mega-robot known as Voltron.”
The original show has since spawned multiple projects including an eight-season Netflix series. The movie is set to be directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber – who also wrote the story along with Ellen Shanman – and produced by Todd Lieberman, Bob Koplar Thurber and David Hoberman.
Cavill has become a staple in the action genre, previously starring in MAN OF STEEL, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., THE WITCHER, and THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE. Cavill has previously shared that he is a fan of good writing, which is the reason why he hates sex scenes.
“I think sometimes they’re overused these days,” he told Fox News. “It’s when you have a sense that you’re going, ‘Is this really necessary or is it just people with less clothing on?’”
“That’s when you start to get more uncomfortable, and you’re thinking, ‘There’s not a performance here. There’s not a piece which is going to carry through to the rest of the movie,’” Cavill continued.
The unnamed Voltron movie has no public release window.
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