Voltron Project in Wake of TF

Relativity is in negotiations to pick up the Voltron project from 20th Century Fox production company New Regency, which has been trying to proceed with a movie version since it acquired the rights last year but hasn't been able to agree a deal with the Japanese owners.

Relativity expects to announce a director in the next week or so, according to trade publication Variety.

The project is set for a more modest budget than originally planned and this will mean using the cost-effectve bluescreen/greenscreen technology that enabled Spartan war epic 300 to be made for just $65million (a mere snip compared to most of today's movie production budgets – for instance, The Dark Knight cost $185m and Transformers cost $150million).

Voltron is based on the popular Japanese animated TV series of the 1980s. A second TV series was made in the 90s. The film version is being adapted by scribe Justin Marks, who's behind Warner's big-screen versions of He-Man and Green Arrow: Escape from Supermax.

Marks' screenplay 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 into the massive sword-wielding Voltron to battle Earth's invaders.

Source: Coventry Telegraph

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