Written by One of us! One of us!
Robbie Brenner is the President and Chief Content Officer over at Mattel Studios.
Brenner revealed some interesting info about Travis Knight (the director of the New “Masters of the Universe” Movie) at MIPCOM in Cannes, France this week.
She revealed that Travis Knight is one of us.
The Mattel Studios boss explained that Travis Knight is a Masters of the Universe “fanboy”, and per the reporting of Variety, indicated that Knight “grew up playing with the action figures and knows the mythos behind them.”
Brenner spoke highly of the “Bumblebee” director saying he “knows the characters” so “his attention to detail has been wonderful to watch.”
Is this good news for fans hoping for a new “Masters of the Universe” movie that honors the lore (more than the 1987 installment did?) We think so!
The “Masters of the Universe” Movie is currently in Post-Production with the film scheduled to be released in cinemas worldwide on June 5th, 2026.
We’ll see you next time!
That detail alone could make a world of difference, and that is something to consider.
TRAVIS KNIGHT IS THE MAN!
Pretty sure this is Chilly Tee’s burner account.
Never seen someone ride someones bone that hasn’t accomplished jack shit.
Travis is here? 🤣
Very funny. Check the Travis Knight movies on RT. Every movie he did is a fresh tomato. I’ll wait.
Okay. Good. So why Earth?
I’m just gonna say it. I think the reason the film will begin on Earth is because it was one of many stupid studio exec mandates that Adam also has to be the general audience/normie surrogate who lives on Earth at the beginning and is brought to Eternia and partially sees it the way the viewers do being exposed to the world for the first time.
I’m betting the first 20-30 minutes will be Earth crap and then Adam gets to Eternia then the film really begins.
I’m half expecting that mental cast list to all appear in a fight at the beginning that sees Adam sent to Earth then we’ll only see a handful of them again once he’s back on Eternia.
That is kinda what happened in Bumblebee.
Hmmm, I find that claim to be sus. He would have been 10 years old when MOTU started coming out, which seems a tad late for someone to get into it…
Similar with Leto IIRC, it’s so fake. I can’t wait for Kevin Smith to lend his support!
I can beleve it. I played with action figures to age 13 and I watched cartoons to age 15.
How old is every one here? I’m 44 and I think I’m on the younger end of this group.
I’m 47.
@he-dad I am 51. My first MotU toy was a Man-at-arms I received in 1982 when I was 8 and I was hooked. Two years later for Christmas, my family went all out and I got Castle Grayskull, Snake Mountain, and some vehicles and figures. I was 10 and was very much into that barbarian/sci-fi genre so it worked well for me.
@wvzx I get to remain silent with the excuse a lady is to never divulge her age. 😆
That is cool bro! Yea barbarians was where it was at in the 80s. It was a wild decade!
@he-dad But at what age did you start though?
Everybody is different bro.
There are people in their forties not only buying toys they are playing with them. Someone playing when they are 10 is not far-fetched mate.
It’s the starting out with MOTU at ten that’s an outlier. That was peak video games right before the crash AND Star Wars. Ten in that or any other time frame is much closer to getting out than buying in, but especially back then.
All that said, MOTU was a phenomenon, so…
@sketchyskeletor That’s exactly what I was getting at, so I don’t understand why it’s not obvious to some. When I was 10, the original NES came out, and before that the Commodore 64 provided a robust gaming experience, so although I was still interested in collecting MOTU and G.I. Joe action figures, those properties had already been “baked in" so to speak, but video games started to hog an increasing amount of my attention. I was 7 when those properties came out, so just about the perfect age to get into them. No normal 10 year old was starting to get into a brand new toyline from scratch in those days at that age. It just didn’t happen, unless you wanted to be ridiculed at school. Thundercats came out when I was 10, and TMNT at 11, and neither one was more than a passing interest for me, as I felt I had aged out of action figures apart from, as I mentioned above, the ones that I had already invested so much time and energy into collecting. No way did I want to start anything new.
Shortly it would all be about games and chicks…
That is music to my ears. Having a fan direct this movie could make all the difference.
I think so. There are a lot of times where directors were a fan first and made some great stuff.