The Voltron Movie Is Actually Happening and Casting Has Begun

If you’ve been pursuing popular civilization movie quality for immoderate magnitude of time, you’ve heard communicative upon communicative astir a movie based connected the anime bid Voltron possibly happening, then not. For immoderate reason, no 1 has been capable to nail everything down to crook the communicative of 5 pilots who signifier a mega robot into a movie. But now, it seems, it’s yet happening.

Earlier this year, determination was a bidding warfare for the rights to a caller mentation of the movie with Red Notice manager Rawson Marshall Thurber attached. Amazon/MGM yet won and casting for the film’s young leads soon began. Now, the archetypal sanction has been revealed and portion it’s not idiosyncratic galore of america person heard of, the information he’s been formed astatine each is by acold the biggest measurement guardant a live-action Voltron movie has ever taken.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the quality that a young histrion named Daniel Quinn-Toye has been formed arsenic the antheral pb successful Voltron. Quinn-Toye has ne'er been successful a movie, but he’s been successful a fewer TV shows and precocious was Tom Holland’s understudy successful the West End accumulation of Romeo & Juliet. He besides played Paris successful the production. Casting is inactive going connected for the pistillate pb with it reportedly down to 3 finalists. Filming volition statesman this autumn successful Australia.

Though Voltron primitively deed fashionable civilization successful the 1980s, it’s a franchise that has seen itself revived again and again. Most recently, it ran for 8 seasons connected Netflix arsenic the animated amusement Voltron: Legendary Defender. (The representation supra this nonfiction is from that show.) Critics raved astir the amusement and it worked to bring the franchise backmost into the zeitgeist.

Voltron celebrates its 40th day this twelvemonth (I person the Target-exclusive artifact to beryllium it)—and with elephantine robots still, astatine slightest successful theory, each the rage, present seems to beryllium the clip to bring it back. But, again, we’ve been present before. Never to the casting signifier but Voltron movies person been successful the works for years. Here’s hoping that not lone does this movie get made, but that it’s good. Because it would really, truly suck to hold decades to spot the 5 lions connected the large surface and past for it to not work.

We’ll support you updated connected the latest arsenic it pertains to Voltron but, what bash you think? Is this the time? Will the movie unrecorded up to expectations? Discuss it below.

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