Hollywood Reporter: Red Notice's Rawson Marshall Thurber directed the Australian shoot
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Entertainment news source The Hollywood Reporter reported on Wednesday that Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with a live-action Voltron project (described as a feature film), and has cast Daniel Quinn-Toye as the lead actor. Quinn-Toye was a student of Tom Holland and played Paris in the West End production of Romeo & Juliet this past spring. Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice, We're the Millers, Central Intelligence, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) will direct the film and will begin filming in Australia this fall. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the project is still auditioning for the female lead.
Amazon is in talks to acquire live-action film rights to Voltron in 2022, along with Warner Bros., Universal and several other studios.
Thurber also co-wrote the script with Ellen Shanman and produced the project with Hidden Pictures' Todd Lieberman, Hobie Films' David Hoberman (2017's Beauty and the Beast) and World Events Productions' Bob Koplar (Voltron: Legendary Defender).
World Events Productions, Ltd. (WEP) and the late Peter O'Keefe adapted the first 1984-1985 Voltron television series from two Toei Animation robot anime: King of Beasts Golion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. Both Golion and the first Voltron story focus on young pilots fighting against an empire of alien conquerors – with the help of five mechanized lions that combine to form a robot.
Since the first series, the franchise has spawned three television series produced outside of Japan: 3D CG Voltron: The Third Dimension in 1998, 2D Voltron Force in 2011, and DreamWorks' Voltron: Legendary Defender and Netflix in 2016
The eighth and final season of the animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender premiered on Netflix in December 2018. Netflix is streaming 12 episodes of the original Voltron series under the title Voltron 84.
Studios previously attempted a live-action Hollywood project for the series in 2007 and then in 2012, but neither project went forward.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter (Borys Kit)