The Voltron Movie Will Star Henry Cavill, and Yes You Read That Right

Just past week, io9 ran a post titled “The Voltron Movie Is Actually Happening and Casting Has Begun.” Little did we cognize that casting for the Amazon MGM movie would impact erstwhile Superman, erstwhile Witcher, and forever Warhammer fan Henry Cavill successful immoderate benignant of bold-faced context. But today, that’s the news: Cavill is gonna prima successful Voltron.

The Hollywood Reporter got the scoop, noting Cavill “has travel aboard to topline successful the live-action diagnostic based connected the mecha anime that Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing.” Thurber’s astir caller movie was 2021’s Red Notice.

That erstwhile io9 station astir Voltron movie casting was connected the juncture of newcomer Daniel Quinn-Toye nabbing a starring role—opposite Cavill, we present know, though truthful acold there’s been nary connection connected the remainder of the cast. Also a mystery: what Thurber’s instrumentality connected Voltron volition beryllium like, beyond it taking spot successful unrecorded action.

As THR reminds us, “Voltron is based connected the Japanese sci-fi series Beast King GoLion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. World Events edited and dubbed the bid arsenic a syndicated show, naming it Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which ran successful the mid-1980s. The premise centered connected 5 young pilots successful a battalion named the Robot Lions, which are vehicles that articulation unneurotic to signifier a mega-robot known arsenic Voltron.”

Presumably Quinn-Toye volition beryllium portraying 1 of those young pilots. Any guesses connected who Cavill mightiness beryllium playing, delight stock successful the comments.

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