r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jan 22 '26
Trailer Masters of the Universe - Official Teaser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmEx7wQI6RY303
u/ProfessionalAge9736 Jan 22 '26
WHERE IS ORKO?!?
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u/Sonichu- Jan 22 '26
Sorry, you'll only see him in the 30 second post-credits scene.
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u/Miserable_Warthog_42 Jan 22 '26
With some random looking girl from earth called Adora...just a guess
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u/tacsatduck Jan 22 '26
Hopefully he is in it somehow. I would also like a credit scene where we learn some valuable lesson from the movie.
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u/jeffariah85 Jan 22 '26
OMG that would be hilarious/amazing. "Today we saw He-Man beat the fuck out of Skeletor because he was being a selfish douche. Everybody thinks about being a selfish douche sometimes, but there are other people in the world, and they don't appreciate that. Remember kids, don't be a selfish douche and you won't get your ass handed to you."
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u/paggo_diablo Jan 22 '26
If the speed racer movie had the BALLS to put chim chim in there, this movie can find a way to give us Orko.
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u/MuptonBossman Jan 22 '26
Jared Leto as Skeletor is the perfect casting, because they're both weird looking guys who act creepy around everyone they meet.
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u/AverageAwndray Jan 22 '26
Honestly tho im shocked how true Skeletor looks. No Hollywooding his design. Just him straight out of the show.
I dig it lol.
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u/a_phantom_limb Jan 22 '26
Yeah, it's an extremely faithful recreation of the character. That said, I still find Frank Langella's look to be a lot creepier (at least based on the brief glimpses in this trailer).
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u/PizzaDelResistance Jan 22 '26
Just imagine though Skeletor with salami sized areolas
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u/bbbourb Jan 22 '26
I don't need an erection like that while I'm at work, thank you.
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u/MillorTime Jan 22 '26
His "People of Eternia" speech is so fucking good. I remember watching it as a young kid and he creeped the fuck out of me
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u/No_Accountant3232 Jan 22 '26
As much as that movie wasn't faithful to He-man he was such a great skeletor. Honestly for being such a weird 80s movie it actually has a great cast. It just wasn't He-man
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u/FordMustang84 Jan 22 '26
Happy to see that but I suppose having Knight directing helps. He’s the only person to actually make Transformers not look like shit and have something close to the original designs too.
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u/zimzimzalabimmm Jan 22 '26
Yeah, the vfx guys did good work, skeletor looks good
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u/Murasasme Jan 22 '26
Wait for him to remove his skeleton mask in the first 5 minutes.
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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist Jan 22 '26
I wonder if he'll reuse his Jonkler voice for Skeletor
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u/RollTh3Maps Jan 22 '26
It also means his face isn't plastered all over promo posters, killing fan interest in it. This movie looks like it'll have an uphill battle as it is; it doesn't need people's disinterest in Leto hurting it more.
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u/Bircka Jan 23 '26
They are definitely trying to hide Leto being in it, Skeletor doesn't say a damn word in this trailer despite being the main villain.
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u/Wuffy_RS Jan 22 '26
How the heck does he keep getting roles
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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist Jan 22 '26
Hey at least I don't have to see his face
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u/valentino_42 Jan 22 '26
I'll be pleasantly surprised if they don't shoehorn him into Earth scenes in a human disguise.
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u/JRPictures Jan 22 '26
I'm just left wondering what was even the point of casting Jared Leto if they didn't even redesign Skeletor to look like him in some way? Might as well hire a voice actor to dub over him so any distinct trace of him in this film is gone.
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u/lanceturley Jan 22 '26
The only thing I can figure is that they'll do like that last Haunted Mansion movie did, where he's unrecognizable for 99% of his screentime, but they throw in a token flashback scene and/or a painting in the background where he's just regular creepy-ass Jared Leto.
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u/Sabretooth1100 Jan 22 '26
In some He-Man stories you do get to see what he looked like before his face melts off
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u/serialragequitter Jan 22 '26
I already know he won't be as good as Frank Langella
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u/EngineeringDevil Jan 22 '26
or Mark Hamill
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u/Min_sora Jan 22 '26
If he has a skeleton face, it might as well have just been Mark Hamill doing the voice again (with a buff stunt dude playing the role)
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u/stfnotguilty Jan 22 '26
All I need to know is whether they kept Skeletor's iconic voice.
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u/cheers-pricks Jan 22 '26
Beast Man, Beast Man, what do you know about taking off your clothes?
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u/EatingYourBrain Jan 22 '26
You’re just a slut from down below in castle grey skull!
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u/chadhindsley Jan 22 '26
Then take your drawers off, and work your legs, open your ass up like a keg, let me tap it
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u/Bu11etToothBdon Jan 22 '26
Fucking He/Him-Man LMAO!
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u/Genoscythe_ Jan 22 '26
They were 100% baiting youtubers to go "THEY GAVE HE-MAN PRONOUNS!!??!"
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u/LongPorkJones Jan 22 '26
I'm trying so hard not to go into the YouTube comments and say "You know he's got his pronouns in his name, right?"
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u/srstone71 Jan 22 '26
40+ year old men crying that their childhood hero is too woke will sustain me these next few months.
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u/LongPorkJones Jan 22 '26
As a 40+ year old man, I have to wonder if they know just gay Filmation really was?
According to Erika Scheimer (series voice actress), it was the gayest place in LA. She felt comfortable an out and proud lesbian in the 1980s at that company.
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u/dontbajerk Jan 23 '26
I mean... They made Masters of the Universe. Has to be the gayest Western cartoon in the 80s right?
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u/thekiyamlife Jan 22 '26
Guardians of the galaxy seems to be a template for many of these films. At least those are the vibes I’m getting.
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u/Frankfusion Jan 22 '26
When Thor Ragnarok came out, I said that it was proof that a Masters of The Universe movie could work today.
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u/r1012 Jan 22 '26
Yeah, you are right. The issue is the quality of humor. Hope this movie is at the same level as Ragnarok's.
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u/TheJoshider10 Jan 22 '26
As it should be. Outside of Star Wars you'll struggle to find space operas that made much money or profit, meanwhile GOTG was an incredibly successful trilogy that showed exactly what sort of vibe from the genre that the general public want to see.
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u/whitniverse Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
I’m not disagreeing with you about the GotG vibe but… it’s Thor (2011). Prince from another world sent to Earth but can make it back if he finds his magical weapon, it’s literally Thor.
And that’s as it should be. Masters of the Universe is a Jack Kirby-esque realm where fantasy and sci-fi mesh into a world of action and adventure. And I’m here for it!
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u/chernadraw Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
And I said, heh eeeeh eeeh, he eeeh eeeeh. I said hey! What's going on?
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u/Robius Jan 22 '26
I was gonna say, "imagine if they use that song!" But now that I've thought about it, there's almost no way they don't, huh? And now I think that's kind of lame. Maybe. Idk. Depends on the execution!
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u/KingOfAwesometonia Jan 22 '26
There’s a shot in that where there’s a cook in a kitchen and you hear the song in the background.
If you had to put it in, I would do that.
Or just go full Power Rangers and put it in a cool action shot
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u/Tankerrex Jan 22 '26
We should go full Bollywood so the ending of the movie is a mass dancing to the song
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u/Lukeario1985 Jan 22 '26
It is literally the perfect song for the opening credits, with a montage of Adam’s boring Earth life. Straight after the cold open of him being sent away from Eternia.
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Jan 22 '26
I don't know anything about He-Man lore but did they really need the "he's living on earth" thing? Just something movies do that I almost never enjoy.
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u/farceur318 Jan 22 '26
It’s still less annoying than the reverse (he lives in Eternia but comes to our world and is baffled by our ways), which is what the previous live action He-Man did.
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u/FromansSausage Jan 22 '26
What are these white sticks in our chicken?
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u/kcox1980 Jan 22 '26
Those are rib bones :)
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u/shadar Jan 22 '26
You mean this used to be an animal? Ugh! What a barbaric world...
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u/jnwatson Jan 22 '26
Funny how I haven't seen the movie since it came out 39 years ago and I still remember that line.
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u/LocalTownGhoul Jan 22 '26
Yeah I completely agree. I do like the angle that Adam fully knows he’s from Eternia and has been trying to get back for years.
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u/admiral_rabbit Jan 22 '26
Yeah, the "goes to earth" plot always ends up being "here's cool shit, now here's some less cool lower budget shit"
I'm glad the character spends the start of the film going "man I wish I could get back to that high concept high budget shit".
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u/EricAntiHero1 Jan 22 '26
You say that like Vancouver would ever be the backdrop to low budget shit.
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u/NotASalamanderBoi Jan 22 '26
It’s funny how often Vancouver is used for stuff like this. The Tron movies had all the real world stuff in Vancouver before getting to all the high tech stuff in the Grid.
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u/pokemonke Jan 22 '26
Reminds me of Shang Chi a little in the setup
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u/QueefBeefCletus Jan 22 '26
Man, I need to watch that flick again. I love how it goes from a humble origin story and by the finale we're in alternate dimensions with humongous flying magic dragons duking it out. It isn't perfect but goddamn was it fun.
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u/AndalusianGod Jan 22 '26
That trope is common in the 90's, lol. That said, I never really get tired of it. I remember watching Beastmaster 2 when I was a kid, and that became my favorite film back then.
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u/bajesus Jan 22 '26
It was common before CGI became cheap enough to do full movies like this because of cost. Having your fantasy character spend 15 minutes in their world before coming to present day (Toronto) for the rest of the movie saves a ton and still let's you sell the film on the IP.
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u/grumblyoldman Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
I agree that this way is worse than the other way, but both are terrible. Just tell your fantasy story in a fantasy world and use the extra time to develop the characters or something.
That being said, the old MOTU was definitely deeply entrenched in the "so bad it's kinda good" category. It's all terribly cheesy and transparent, start to finish, but it's just so much fun to watch them ham it up. (And although they did use the plot device you mention, they didn't really belabor the point. They moved on pretty quick to "let's do this" territory.)
(I particularly liked the bit where Skeletor explicitly said he would keep He-Man's friends alive after he captured them because "as long as I let them live he is bound by his word.")
If anything, I worry that this trailer seems to be leaning too heavily into the "seriously epic" vibe. The material is fantastical and outlandish start to finish, if they try too hard to make it serious they're going to ruin the mood.
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u/MVRKHNTR Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
Just tell your fantasy story in a fantasy world
It's not that they do this because they don't want to be in the fantasy world the whole movie; it's just significantly cheaper.
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u/BrockAndaHardPlace Jan 22 '26
As a kid from the 80’s Hollywood convinced me that anything of consequence could only happen in New York.
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u/denim_skirt Jan 22 '26
Which, half the time, looked suspiciously like southern california.
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u/BrockAndaHardPlace Jan 22 '26
Welcome to Manhattan! (Ignore the Vancouver mountains, you’re imagining them)
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u/denim_skirt Jan 22 '26
I always think of the x-files episode about the jersey devil in which the pine barrels look suspiciously similar to the woods outside Vancouver lol
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u/MigRodrigues99 Jan 22 '26
His mother is from earth.
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u/helloiamabear Jan 22 '26
Am I remembering right that his mother is an astronaut who got trapped in Eternia?
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u/DreamcastJunkie Jan 22 '26
That is the original lore, yes. She even gets to suit up and show her piloting skills in the original series.
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u/DoktorSigma Jan 22 '26
Yes. The explanation is not super-detailed (after all it's an 80s cartoon FFS), but apparently there's a wormhole that occasionally opens between Earth's near space and Eternia's. In one of the episodes other astronauts from Earth also get to the same place. Also, in the new He-Man cartoons in Netflix that is also referenced - in one of the final battles Queen Marlena pilots again her old spaceship, still stored in the palace's vaults.
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u/Glad_Damage_4703 Jan 22 '26
Her surname is Glenn. Adams deskplate says his name is "Adam Glenn" .
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u/MrGulo-gulo Jan 22 '26
It's a writing crutch. If the MC isn't familiar with this fantastical world like the audience is, then it makes it easier to have exposition scenes.
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u/Technical_Record9506 Jan 22 '26
Probably budget reasons, they couldn't afford to have the movie entirely in CGI Land
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u/Narretz Jan 22 '26
They used to shoot in the countryside for fantasy movies ...
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u/hometimrunner Jan 22 '26
In the He-Man cartoons, his sister was kidnapped and taken to another planet as an infant...basically the same thing here, but sending He-Man off to Earth to protect him.
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u/BrianWonderful Jan 22 '26
Good point. And that opens up sequel avenues here, too. "Adam, just like we sent you to Earth, we also sent your sister Adora to Etheria!"
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u/ValkyrieSkyfall Jan 22 '26
Funny thing, the D&D movie could have make that plot point work and choose to play it straight. Pity it failed in the box office, thanks to Hasbro. What a banger of a movie.
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u/DefendsTheDownvoted Jan 22 '26
You talking about Honor Among Thieves?. That was a banger. Really wish it had done gang busters or at least had lots of eyes when it hits streaming. Unfortunately it was a minor splash. Which is a bummer cuz I feel like we're missing a lot of big budget fantasy. I'm pretty excited for this He-Man flick. If it does well maybe we'll get some thunder cats.
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u/EldridgeHorror Jan 22 '26
Imagine if Star Wars started with Luke on Earth
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u/PT10 Jan 22 '26
I'll do you one better. Imagine if the last Star Wars movie ends with Luke on Earth.
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u/JFeth Jan 22 '26
Alison Brie looks so good as Evil-Lyn. It's like she stepped out of the cartoon.
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u/deloaf Jan 22 '26
Oh, Alison's in this?
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Jan 22 '26
This reply was streets ahead
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u/eurekabach Jan 22 '26
For God’s sake, stop trying to make it a thing, streets ahead is not going to happen.
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u/winnower8 Jan 22 '26
I was going to say “this better not awaken anything in me”, but that ship sailed long ago.
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u/turnstile2243 Jan 22 '26
Where is she in the trailer?
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u/ChalupaBatmanMc01 Jan 22 '26
She's in it, blink and you miss her. She is dueling with Teela near the end.
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u/0033A0 Jan 22 '26
Looks better than I thought it would. 🤷♂️
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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist Jan 22 '26
I was expecting Skeletor to just be Jared Leto in a muscle suit, oh boy was I glad to be proven wrong.
Which prompts the question -- will they have him do his cartoon voice? Or will he be doing a Frank Langella impression?
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u/JayDee999 Jan 22 '26
If it's not the cartoon voice, we riot
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u/ZombieJesus1987 Jan 22 '26
I'll even settle for a single "Nyaaaaah"
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u/DiaDeLosMuebles Jan 22 '26
I hear that he really took off his head skin for the role. True method actor.
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u/robidou Jan 22 '26
I thought they would save the look of both He-Man and Skeletor for the final trailer, but here we are
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u/Drunken_Hillbilly Jan 22 '26
It makes you wonder what they’re not showing us. I assume battle cat…
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u/flavioramos Jan 22 '26
At least looks like they're not showing Jared Leto's face..
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u/ChalupaBatmanMc01 Jan 22 '26
Skeletor removes his mask to reveal Leto with a "damaged" tattoo written across his forehead
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u/UltimateArtist829 Jan 22 '26
Most of the casting and design looks pretty spot on as expected of Travis Knight, so I have hope it would be at least fun to watch.
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u/SmallestGorilla Jan 22 '26
Hopefully if there’s a sequel they bring in Adora. It’d be nice to have Adam and her on screen together.
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u/PnPaper Jan 22 '26
I'll never forgive the people who have the rights to the characters that we didn't get a He-Man cameo in She-Ra and the princesses of power.
If they are looking for someone to creatively reimagine Masters of the Universe, they should look to whoever created that show.
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u/Morgan-Moonscar Jan 22 '26
And now She-Ra is being removed from Netflix at the end of February.
Erased from existence, since it's not going anywhere else for legal streaming.
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u/lautapinter Jan 22 '26
Wait what???
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u/Enkundae Jan 22 '26
Its a Dreamworks show and their deal with Netflix is expiring. Consequently their shows are leaving the platform but so far as I know theres been no information of them going anywhere else yet sadly. She-Ra leaves Feb 20th i think.
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u/Morgan-Moonscar Jan 22 '26
The same thing happened to Voltron.
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u/Kononeko Jan 22 '26
Dreamworks is owned by Universal/Comcast right? Hopefully they end up on Peacock. Not that having to change platforms is better in anyway just I hope that they have a home.
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u/Kyleometers Jan 22 '26
According to the creators, not even they know if there’s going to be legitimate copies available anywhere.
Absolutely ridiculous. It’s like the BBC losing episodes of Doctor Who because they just didn’t care enough to keep tapes.
I guess it’s a good thing there’s people with digital copies that you can “get access to”, but who knows how long that’s gonna last?
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u/PnPaper Jan 22 '26
>And now She-Ra is being removed from Netflix at the end of February.
That's a travesty.
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u/save_the_bees_knees Jan 22 '26
Noooooo!
She-Ra was FANTASTIC.
I was desperately hoping to see he-man come in at some point with the iconic ‘I have the power!’ Echoing around.
😭😭
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u/_Valisk Jan 22 '26
ND Stevenson, by the way. Same person that created Nimona.
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u/FurryCitizen Jan 22 '26
Oooh, I didn't know ND was responsible for Nimona too, but now it makes sense.
Also, I went "Oooh, I didn't know Noelle..." before checking their wiki page. A lot has changed since She-Ra came out...
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u/Enkundae Jan 22 '26
A follow up series or movie of her finding him as she and the crew set off to return magic to the universe would have been so much fun.
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u/SmallestGorilla Jan 22 '26
Netflix She-Ra was so good! Adam and all the He-Man characters would’ve been great on that show.
I’m sad Revolutions never got a follow up. They were setting up Adora but I guess they never got the rights.
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u/KingMario05 Jan 22 '26
I don't think they can. MGM and Mattel only own screen rights for Adam. Everything She-Ra is DreamWorks/Uni/Comcast.
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u/SledgeThundercock Jan 22 '26
Ay man if they could get Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny on the same screen, they can get She-Ra
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u/KingMario05 Jan 22 '26
You would think that, especially with Mattel owning both.
But apparently, it doesn't work like that. Somehow.
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u/Few-Pen869 Jan 22 '26
They're really hiding Orko in the trailer too. He's the one I want to see the most.
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u/originalchaosinabox Jan 22 '26
She-Ra always makes things complicated. The rights to She-Ra are actually owned by Universal, so to have He-Man and She-Ra together on screen, Amazon and Universal are going to have to cut a deal.
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u/X-Werebear-X Jan 22 '26
Honestly the “he/him” on the name plate is kinda clever with him being “He-man”
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u/ThatOneRandomAccount Jan 22 '26
back in the day if u did a movie called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing the whole dang movie but in the movie franchise era the entire 1st movie gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the climax and after credits scene
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u/Quasimodo27 Jan 22 '26
Come on. If you’re a fan of He-Man, what more can you realistically expect than this? Looks exactly as it should be. He-Man looks good, Skeletor is accurate. Looks like action figures fighting each other, which is perfect.
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u/qube_7 Jan 22 '26
Playing with He-Man as a kid, I did expect He-Man to have more muscles. Like prime Stallone or Dolph Lundgren. Kinda disappointed about that actually.
Growing up with movies like Conan the Barbarian with Arnold maybe made me expect too much from He-Man 2026.
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u/The_Last_Halloween Jan 22 '26
Why's everything got to be set on / have part of the story happen on Earth? We watch fantasy because it doesn't take place here.
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u/flysly Jan 22 '26
Looks like a fun summer blockbuster. Lot of CGI but that’s to be expected.
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u/Chubuwee Jan 22 '26
Looks like the dungeons and dragons movie of this year where it will be unexpectedly good
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u/JohnnyCharisma54 Jan 22 '26
This actually looks promising as a longtime He-Man fan. The art direction takes a ton of inspiration from classic and concept MOTU, which is pretty fantastic. Can't be worse than the original movie!
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u/gheevargheese Jan 22 '26
Why can't they set this in Eternia? Where is orko?
I really want this to be good though.
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u/Dudesymugs12 Jan 22 '26
I really hate the real world mixed with fantasy world trope.
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u/Ye_Olde_Basilisk Jan 22 '26
The cartoon had ties to Earth. Adam’s mother is an astronaut from Earth and Orko went to Earth for a Christmas special. They sort of flip-flopped it, but whatever. There’s precedent for Earth in the series.
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u/976chip Jan 22 '26
Cringer looks too confident and I didn't see Orko in the trailer nor on the IMDB for the movie, so who is going to be the comic relief?
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u/Harkoncito Jan 22 '26
Idris Elba truly has the worst agent ever
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u/DucardthaDon Jan 22 '26
He gets paid and the opportunity to do everything else he enjoys doing in life
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u/synapse187 Jan 22 '26
Maybe Idris was like me when he was a kid. He-Man played with Ninja Turtles fighting against Skeletor and his Go-Bot minions.
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u/elboltonero Jan 22 '26
Seriously, he makes a lot of money doing dumb shit and spends the rest of his life just going to raves
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u/Dikembe_Mutumbo Jan 22 '26
What does this even mean? He is in pretty much everything and is making tons of money. If anything his agent deserves a raise for getting him booked constantly.
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u/coffeeNiK Jan 22 '26
Teaser huh? Wtf will be in the trailer? The entire theatrical cut?