In an unexpected piece of casting, former Superman and “The Witcher” star Henry Cavill has joined the live-action “Voltron” feature at Amazon MGM Studios.
The film is based on the mecha anime which Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Red Notice,” “Skyscraper”) is directing. Cavill joins newcomer Daniel Quinn-Toye who was announced last week.
The classic 1980s cartoon centered on five young space pilots in a battalion named the Robot Lions. Those vehicles are able to join together to form a mega robot known as Voltron.
The series, a reworking of Toei Animation’s two mecha anime series “Beast King GoLion” and “Armored Fleet Dairugger XV”. It gained international recognition when it was adapted by World Events Productions and ABC into the English animated series which ran from 1984-1985.
The show was so successful it spawned three more animated TV spin-offs, two video games, and a line of toys.
Thurber and Ellen Shanman are co-writing while Todd Lieberman, Bob Koplar and David Hoberman are producing. Shooting on “Voltron” will take place this Fall in Australia.
Cavill is coming off “Argylle” and “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” along with a cameo in “Deadpool & Wolverine”.
Source: THR
