Voltron Headed For The Big Screen

An anonymous reader writes "Following the success of the Transformers movie, Hollywood is preparing to make another live-action film featuring giant robots from the 1980s: 'Voltron: Defender of the Universe'. The script, by Justin Marks, is described as '...a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico. Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.' Let's go, Voltron force!"

Original

[Bibz]

My god, I can't believed that I found the PowerRangers original when they came out... It's the "same" thing as Voltron!

Re:Voltron is Japanese..

[Bombula]

they don't understand how to do a deep plot involving robots

You mean like a giant alien robot made out of five smaller robots shaped like lions that wields a sword?

But...Voltron got SERVED!

[SCHecklerX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVswFzaYcCM [youtube.com]

Re:Good old Holywood

[CastrTroy]

Gabe and Tycho saw it coming the whole time. Here's 2 approriate comics

Part 1 [penny-arcade.com]
Part 2 [penny-arcade.com]

For some reason...

[david.given]

...I can't get this sequence from ReBoot [youtube.com] out of my mind when reading the story...

Re:Voltron is Japanese..

[Chineseyes]

I dub thee Comic Book Guy [wikipedia.org].

Go forth and overstate the seriousness of children's cartoons wherever you shall go. Be a menace to all those who may decry the merits of such entertainment for this is your calling!!

What's next???

[Ctrl-Z]

What could possibly follow up a Voltron movie? Thundercats?

Re:Original

[garett_spencley]

I used to watch Voltron when I was around 4 or 5 years old. I had the toy robot that you could assemble / dissemble etc.

Around the age of 11 or so the Power Rangers became "huge". Being a young, impressionable kid with no free will I watched it after school with my friends even though I thought it was "total crap". Anyway at that time I had completely forgotten about Voltron yet I KNEW that it was a rip-off of something that I used to watch as a young(er) child.

I remember absolutely loving Voltron and for years I tried to figure out what that cartoon I used to watch as a kid with the cat-like vehicles that could assemble into one. Every person I described it to, in hopes that they would remember, could only think of "power rangers!" to which I'd respond "no definitely NOT the power rangers ... it was a cartoon!" and they'd just think "err... transformers ? :\"

It was actually thanks to this /. article that I've discovered ... it was Voltron! :) ... and now, thanks to another poster, I know why the Power Rangers was so similar. Some days it pays it to slack on work and just hang out on /.

Shit my boss is calling me ... oh well, he'll understand when I tell him "it was Voltron!"

Re:Original

[Capt James McCarthy]

Screw that, it's all a copy of the Banana Splits. Just with different a different agenda.

Re:Good old Holywood

[Bazar]

I think its also worth mentioning the Perry Bible Fellowship's take of Guntron!

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF186-Guntron_Alliance_ Force.png#172 [pbfcomics.com]

If you don't get it, you clearly don't remember voltron

Re:Original

[elh_inny]

I highly recommend seeing the Robot Chicken remake:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OGNCWxWTGFg [youtube.com]

Re:Original

[Dogtanian]

Some days it pays it to slack on work and just hang out on /. Shit my boss is calling me ... oh well, he'll understand when I tell him "it was Voltron!"

Oddest response to "You're fired, you lazy sonofabitch!" ever...

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Re:Obligatory

[Stormwatch]

You're doing it wrong. It is:

>:3

JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR!

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