A lawsuit is underway surrounding the upcoming live-action feature film Voltron. It seems news of the lawsuit has led some websites to speculate that the feature film is now suffering development problems that could prevent it from moving ahead any time soon.
Voltron fans should rest easy with the knowledge that such speculation is nothing more than rumor. The likelihood of the suit having an impact on further development of the feature film is virtually zero.
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Hot on the heels of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’s success at the box office comes the announcement that a new giant robot movie is pressing forward – Atlas Entertainment has just acquired the rights to make the 1980’s television series Voltron into a live-action feature film.
The film will be based on the Japanese anime series that ran in the US for two years during 1984 and 1985. It will follow five Transformers-like robot lions that combine to form one super robot lion. In the anime series a group of five pilots control them for the purpose of defending the planet Arus from King Zarkon and his evil Robobeats.
This could end up being a bigger movie than you might think. Some of the producers names that are attached to the project are connected with notables such as The Dark Knight, Wanted, Get Smart and The International.
The Voltron feature film hasn’t yet been set with a studio although Atlas apparently has a deal with Sony which could lead to Voltron becoming a new tentpole – something that I’m sure Sony will be thinking heavily about in light of Paramount’s recent success with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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