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I awaiting much wailing and nashing of teeth from Mibbers, Totty, Nymvette et al....

Fox-based New Regency has put robot project "Voltron: Defender of the Universe" into turnaround.

Ryan Kavanaugh's financing and production venture Relativity Media is in negotiations to back the property, though on a more moderate budget, utilizing the type of cost-effective technology employed in films including "300."

The Mark Gordon Co. still is attached to produce "Voltron," which is based on the popular Japanese animated TV series of the 1980s.

Mark Gordon and Jordan Wynn are producers. Bryan Zuriff is exec producing. Producers expect to attach a director within the next week.

Relativity would finance and produce the project as part of its one-off picture business and shop it to distributors. In the past, Relativity films have been released by Lionsgate ("3:10 to Yuma") and MGM ("Mr. Brooks").

Last summer, New Regency picked up the rights to the property, adapted by scribe Justin Marks, who's behind Warner Bros.' bigscreen versions of "He-Man" and "Green Arrow."

Marks' take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.

Technically, New Regency never had the rights to the project, insiders close to the project said. The shingle couldn't wrap up a deal with "Voltron's" Japanese rights holders, delaying any further development of the pic.

Talks for "Voltron" were under way before DreamWorks and Paramount successfully launched "Transformers," but Hollywood's interest in robot pics based on popular toys or toons grew after "Transformers" hit it big at the B.O., with Warner Bros. snatching up the rights to "Robotech."

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Well, the original Japanese Anime Golion doesn't exist outside of Japan so Voltron by nature of the way it was edited and redone for the US market is essentially a US product anyway.

It won't mean so much outside of the US and to be frank, only people of a certain age will remember it anyway so I'm not surprised that this got shunted down the priority list.

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Voltron has a director says Filmstalker:


Voltron has assigned a director, just after the news was broken that it was being passed over by Fox to a smaller company and getting a much reduced budget. The director is Max Makowski.

He's directed Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and The Agency television shows as well as being marked as the director of the Kung Fu film adaptation and the writer of the Hawaii Five-0 adaptation.

One thing is clear, he's strong on television related work, and so that might stand him in good stead for Voltron.

Yet there's the drop in budget to be concerned about, and on a film about giant robots and huge set pieces that could be a big problem, especially when the bar has been set with Transformers and it's soon to be sequel. Well I say bar set high, I do mean in terms of effects and action, not cinematic value!

The story from Latino Review through the cool Cinema Blend suggests that Max Makowski is a hot property, up and coming - Kung Fu and Hawaii Five-0?

Well maybe he is, but with a small, restrictive budget, and a big robot film to make, I think he's already up against it.

Transformers this is not going to be, but saying that could be a good thing. Perhaps there will be a chance to see something a little stronger and character based.

-- Edited by Man In Black at 15:43, 2008-08-29

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