Netflix har verkligen bestämt sig för att satsa på Masters of the Universe och erbjuder redan två olika serier baserade på He-Man samt spinoff-serien She-Ra. Och än är de inte färdiga, för det kommer mer, bland annat en spelfilm som görs av Aaron och Adam Nee.
Men att göra spelfilm baserat på Masters of the Universe är såklart inte helt lätt eftersom det förmodligen är den mest ostiga (sagt med kärlek till både He-Man och ost) av de stora tyecknade serierna från 80-talet. Hur får man en publik att ta karaktärer som heter Extendar, Snout Spout, Tung Lashor eller Fisto på allvar?
Tja, Aaron och Adam Nee har iallfall bestämt sig för att försöka återskapa magin i originalserien, snarare än att göra det lite ironiskt. Aaron säger till Slashfilm:
"And that's what we are trying to hold onto is, what was that sparking inside of us, as kids? And so, we want that, at its core, that very basic human connection that we were feeling while not going, "Well, we're grownups now. So we can't really have a character named Ram-Man, we can't really have Fisto." Instead it's like, "No, we're going to have that." How do you pull in like all of the kind of just wildness and craziness, but do it with love and affection?
It's a wild, crazy property, and we wanted to keep it wild and crazy. Like, you had just wacky characters, but what we also wanted to keep is what it was to experience those toys and those cartoons as kids. Whereas kids, we took it completely seriously and trying to tap into, what was it that it was making us feel then? That empowerment that made us feel, and that sort of wide-eyed wonder of the incredible things that can happen, and the incredible worlds that you can encounter. And so we want that wildness, but also the sort of reverence and love of it, that we saw it with through the filter of our child eyes...."
Det låter väl som allt vi kan önska oss, eller hur?
