Hollywood Reporter: Red Notice’s Rawson Marshall Thurber helms movie’s Australian shoot
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Home entertainment news source The Hollywood Reporter published on Wednesday that Amazon MGM Studios is progressing with the live-action Voltron task (which it refers to as a function movie), and has actually cast Daniel Quinn-Toye as a lead star. Quinn-Toye acted as Tom Holland’s understudy and as Paris in the West End production of Romeo & & Juliet this previous spring. Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice, We’re the Millers, Central Intelligence, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) is directing the movie, which will start shooting in Australia this fall. The Hollywood Reporter kept in mind that the task is still auditioning for a lead female function.
Amazon remained in talks for the live-action rights to Voltron in 2022, along with Warner Bros., Universal, and a number of other studios.
Thurber is likewise co-writing the script with Ellen Shanman and producing the porject with Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman, Hobie Films’ David Hoberman (Beauty and the Beast 2017), and World Events Productions’ Bob Koplar (Voltron: Legendary Defender).
World Events Productions, Ltd. (WEP) and the late Peter O’Keefe adjusted the very first 1984-1985 Voltron tv series from 2 Toei Animation robotic anime: King of Beasts Golion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. Both Golion and the very first Voltron story fixated young pilots who combat versus an empire of alien conquerors– with the aid of 5 mechanized lions that integrate to form a robotic.
Given that the very first series, the franchise generated 3 tv series produced outside Japan: the 3D CG Voltron: The Third Dimension in 1998, the 2D Voltron Force in 2011, and DreamWorks and Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defender in 2016.
The 8th and last season of the Voltron: Legendary Defender animated series premiered on Netflix in December 2018. Netflix is streaming 12 episodes of the initial Voltron series under the title Voltron 84.
The Hollywood Reporter had actually reported that Netflix is not amongst the business bidding for the upcoming live-action task.
Studios formerly tried a live-action Hollywood job for the franchise in 2007 and after that in 2012, however neither job moved on.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter (Borys Kit)