Written by Will it be campy or will it be serious?
While promoting her new film “Together” with real-life husband Dave Franco, Evil-Lyn actress Alison Brie was asked about the tone for the New “Masters of the Universe” Movie.
If you recall, back in January, actor Nicholas Galitzine was asked about how his New “Masters of the Universe” Film would compare to the classic 1983 Filmation cartoon “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”… which Nicholas responded it would be “quite different” to that show (which he referred to as “camp” in nature):
Pivoting to your role as He-Man, you been binge-watching the old cartoon at all? How does it compare to the film?“
NICHOLAS GALITZINE: “I have, yeah. Look, what I will say is our version is quite different from the original animation, which we all agree was camp within its own right and worked so well for the time.”
People took his response as meaning the new MOTU movie will have a more serious tone.
Yet, speaking with Collider, when asked about the New “Masters of the Universe” Movie possibly having a more serious tone, the Evil-Lyn actress seemed to counter that position:
ALISON BRIE: “Who said it’s leaning a little more serious? I don’t think they know as much as they think they know. That’s all I’m gonna say.”
So which is it, serious or campy?
What we have been hearing through the grapevine is the tone for the New “Masters of the Universe” Movie is a little bit of both. (Think “Guardians of the Galaxy”).
We’ll find out more when the first teaser trailer drops, probably during the holidays this year (if the “Barbie movie is any indication).
Filming has wrapped for the “Masters of the Universe” Movie with the the big budget film scheduled to be released in cinemas worldwide on June 5th, 2026.
We’ll see you next time!
That tone is fine by me. The Guardians movies are great movies.
Travis Knight knows what he is doing. The tone will be perfect. This movie will be perfect.
Yes, but will it actually make money?
Bumblebee is a cult hit, it flopped.
This is the thing, Bumblebee was good in comparison to it’s predecessors. That’s not the same as being genuinely good! It’s simply an OK movie, nothing special, and as a result of that and arriving during Bay burnout it died theatrically.
Forgetting even objectivity, Knight has never had a box office hit.
This is merely an inkling, there’s not enough evidence, but to me he feels like a studio front man while they actually make the movie. Like Marvel does with directors you’ve never heard of who have no proven track record, and yet they’re supposedly directing movies with 225m budgets. There’s even a supercut online of them and the writers for different projects all being told not to read the comics!
A mix that straddles the fine line between too serious or too campy is ideal.
Tell it dead straight and put humour in the dialogue where appropriate. I sure as shit don’t need another Guardians misfits movie or anything like that. That style of James Gunn humour is so cooked even Marvel is desperately backing away from it now.
I don’t think the comedy in Marvel movies is a James Gunn style. Comedy existed in Marvel movies for years before James Gunn.
Yeah, but it wasn’t undercutting almost every scene like it got to be. By the time we got to Love and Thunder they were goofing it up just after children had been abducted. The best example I can give is it’s the difference between the quality of the Spider-Man movies and ‘mainstream’ Marvel, which is to say Sony were kicking ass (with Spider-Man at least lol).
I mean, just leave her alone. Her lips are sealed for legal reasons. 🤐
Legit I’ve thought in some alternate timeline where he never went to DC (Suicide Squad, Peacemaker and Superman are amazing, don’t get me wrong and I’m excited for his new DCU) and just finished the Guardians trilogy for Marvel aka that whole twitter Disney debacle never happening, James Gunn would’ve made a good pick for a MOTU movie director. Who knows what extent of knowledge he has about the franchise other than basics (Skeletor and Grayskull get namedrops in Guardians Vol. 2)? but yeah his tone would be perfect.
That’s not to knock Travis Knight, he’s great but he’s only directed two movies. No real signature style.
And I half-jokingly tweeted @JamesGunn should MOTU take off as a film franchise next year and at least make it up to movie 3 in say 6-8 years, yeah it would be a very long way off and we’ll be old, but he WB and MGM-Amazon should collab to make a loose film adaptation taking place in both the new MOTU film universe and DCU of the first time Supes and Adam crossed paths in the franchise’s early history
I say half-jokingly because it’s one of those awesome things that you know ain’t happening.
It’s at least more likely to happen than if egotistical Dwayne Johnson was still really begging for WB to make a Black Adam vs. Superman movie.
I mean he wasn’t wrong when he said the hierarchy of the DC Universe was about to change. 😆