Amazon MGM Studios’ giant robot Voltron movie is getting a man of steel.
Henry Cavill, the Superman actor and star of The Witcher, has come aboard to topline in the live-action feature based on the mecha anime that Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing.
The actor joins Daniel Quinn-Toye, the newcomer who impressed the studio and director with his West End work opposite Tom Holland, in leading the roll call.
Voltron is based on the Japanese sci-fi series Beast King GoLion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. 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 plot details for the new version is unclear. Thurber wrote the script with Ellen Shanman.
Producing are Todd Lieberman via Hidden Pictures, World Events Productions’ Bob Koplar, Thurber and Hobie Films’ David Hoberman.
Cavill appeared in two action thrillers this year, Matthew Vaughan’s Argyle for Apple Original Films and Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare for Lionsgate. He also had an audience-cheering cameo in this summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine.
The muscular actor reunited with Ritchie for action thriller In the Grey, which will also star Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez, and is due to star in Chad Stahelski’s long-in-the-works reboot of Highlander, which shoots next year. He is also exec producing a take on the Warhammer 40,000 franchise across all Amazon MGM Studios productions.
Cavill is represented by WME and 2PM Sharp.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
