The He-Man Movie Finds Its Teela in Camila Mendes

Mattel’s been trying off and on for years to get a He-Man movie disconnected the ground, with Amazon MGM pitching successful to assistance backmost successful May. Months Nicolas Galitzine lande the titular role, Riverdale star Camila Mendes has been added to play 1 of his cardinal allies.

Per Deadline, the Riverdale alum volition play Teela, a skipper of the royal defender and adjacent person of He-Man’s alter-ego, Prince Adam. (And depending connected the show, she yet becomes his emotion interest.) In the 1987 film, she was played by Chelsea film, and has been voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Melissa Benoist, and Kimberly Brooks successful the much caller animated shows. The Hollywood Reporter notes Mendes’ casting is reasonably recent, and she won the relation against Black Adam’s Quintessa Swindell, Barbie’s Alexandra Shipp, and Clara Rugaard (Black Mirror). It’s been a engaged 2024 for Mendes: she’s starred successful 3 movies (and enforcement produced 2 of them), and besides precocious landed a pb relation successful Sony’s upcoming reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Details connected the upcoming film—titled Masters of the Universe, just similar the ’87 movie—are presently successful the dark. But the movie is said to support the wide conception of the series, wherein Adam of Eternia uses the Power Sword to shapeshift into the heroic hunk and combat Skeletor and his armies of evil. Travis Knight, champion known for Bumblebee and Laika’s Kubo & the Two Strings, will nonstop the picture.

Masters of the Universe will merchandise successful theaters connected June 5, 2026.

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