Against All Odds, the He-Man Movie Might Not Suck
Those wily Latinos at Latino Review have gotten their hands on a copy of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe script, for the live-action version greenlit after Transformers made a zillion bucks. LR’s El Mayimbe loved it, and gives an incredibly positive review of it, mainly for nothing having anything to do with Earth and by appropriately mixing the magic and technology that made MOTU so great. I’m a huge He-Fanboy, and am totally pleased by all the detailed revealed here (feel free to check it out yourself here, but recognize it’s chock full of potential spoilers).
It’s worth noting that the He-Man script was done by Justin Marks, whose Green-Arrow-in-jail script Supermax has comic fans engorged with pleasure. IESB also announced that Supermax has been renamed Green Arrow and is now suddenly part of WB’s summer 2009 schedule, after Iron Man proved lesser known superhero flicks could make a jillion dollars. Anyways, Justin Marks is a true nerd hero, and if you see him, tell him so. That is all.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.