Henry Cavill Joins Amazon MGM Voltron Film Forged

Simply final week, io9 ran a post titled “The Voltron Film Is Really Taking place and Casting Has Begun.” Little did we all know that casting for the Amazon MGM movie would contain former Superman, former Witcher, and forever Warhammer fan Henry Cavill in any type of bold-faced context. However as we speak, that’s the information: Cavill is gonna star in Voltron.

The Hollywood Reporter bought the inside track, noting Cavill “has come aboard to topline within the live-action characteristic primarily based on the mecha anime that Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing.” Thurber’s most up-to-date movie was 2021’s Crimson Discover.

That earlier io9 submit about Voltron film casting was on the event of newcomer Daniel Quinn-Toye nabbing a starring position—reverse Cavill, we now know, although up to now there’s been no phrase on the remainder of the forged. Additionally a thriller: what Thurber’s tackle Voltron can be like, past it happening in dwell motion.

As THR reminds us, “Voltron is predicated on the Japanese sci-fi sequence Beast King GoLion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. World Occasions edited and dubbed the sequence as a syndicated present, naming it Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which ran within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. The premise centered on 5 younger pilots in a battalion named the Robotic Lions, that are automobiles that be part of collectively to type a mega-robot often known as Voltron.”

Presumably Quinn-Toye can be portraying a kind of younger pilots. Any guesses on who Cavill is likely to be taking part in, please share within the feedback.

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