Live Action Voltron movie starring Henry Cavill has already finished production!

[Skipper]

I've never understood Americans' fascination with Voltron. It's just one of many Japanese robot anime, and not even one of the best. From what I see, even Japanese people are a little perplexed by how much of a pop icon it is in the US.

edit: It was even one of the first posts I wrote here

What’s up with the fascination about Voltron?

(I really wanted add this question to a Voltron-themed thread but I didn't find a recent one) Hi everyone! I'm really fascinated(?) by the fact that Voltron is such a cornerstone of the American pop culture. It's constantly mentioned in memes, by comedians, it had a Netflix remake. I just want...

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[Skipper]

Wasn't the vehicle team set after the lions series? I was told that decades ago and never had reason not to believe it.
Yep.

EDIT: I didn't see all the episodes of either series.

You haven't missed anything. In the '70s, '80s, and early '90s, Italy was the country that imported the most anime to the West, and I've seen almost all the robot anime of the time. I assure you, these weren't the best at all; quite the opposite. Perhaps some of the camp fun came from the American adaptation, where no one ever died, but they simply "slept" for a long time.

"Lightspeed Electroid Albegas" was clearly aimed at younger viewers (younger than the average robot anime viewer...). I remember watching a few episodes when I was a kid and being bored.

Edit: a good review of Albegas:

Lightspeed Electroid Albegas – Three actual teenager save the world

I wrote a first reaction post to Albegas before Mecha March 2023. At that time, there were only a couple episodes for this show available on YouTube. After discotek released Albegas on blu-ray, It …

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I liked this part:

I don’t have as much to say about Lightspeed Electroid Albegas. It just isn’t nearly as complex or has that much wrong with it. Albegas just exist and that is okay.

 

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[DonIago]

Wasn't the vehicle team set after the lions series? I was told that decades ago and never had reason not to believe it.

EDIT: I didn't see all the episodes of either series.

My recollections are more than a bit hazy, but in terms of watching the Americanized versions I know there were two characters (one from each series) who were related, and I want to say there may have even been a crossover (I'm really not sure about that though), so they were set mostly at the same time period? I think the finale of the vehicle series was shown before the finale of the lions series (maybe the latter had more episodes)?

 

[Marc]

My recollections are more than a bit hazy, but in terms of watching the Americanized versions I know there were two characters (one from each series) who were related, and I want to say there may have even been a crossover (I'm really not sure about that though), so they were set mostly at the same time period? I think the finale of the vehicle series was shown before the finale of the lions series (maybe the latter had more episodes)?

In Australia we got the vehicle force Voltron first.

Wasn't a full cross over episode but yes there was a family relation between one the lion pilots and the one of the vehicle force and the "cross over" was in the form of a letter explaining what was happening.

Which to my thinking would for the in-universe chronology would have the two series taking place simultaneously.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Even though I know the true origins of Voltron in Japan, I always considered my hometown of Saint Louis to be Voltron's hometown as well because that is where World Events Productions is headquartered. If you were a kid in Saint Louis during the 80s, you knew Voltron or knew someone who did.

It was the success of Lion Voltron that led WEP to bring forth Vehicle Voltron, but the latter didn't catch fire like the former. Even the local Saint Louis TV station that WEP had close ties to eventually banished Vehicle Voltron to like 2 AM on Sunday mornings. Even so, WEP still eventually commissioned a totally original double-length episode called Voltron: Fleet of Doom that finally brought both Voltrons together.

 

[Aragorn]

Voltron: Fleet of Doom was the crossover movie. Mostly repurposed footage, but because these were two unrelated shows, Toei Animation had to create some additional footage to make the crossover possible.

 

[DonIago]

Part of me would like to have both series on disc. And part of me is well-aware that I'd probably watch each of them once, reminisce for a moment on how innocent a child I was, and then never watch them again.

If they had commentary tracks or such, though...

The vehicle Voltron on at least one occasion didn't shy away from a pyrrhic victory where the heroes "won" but only after so much damage had been inflicted upon a planet that it was destroyed anyway.

Meanwhile, even as a kid I got so damn tired of Lion Voltron using the blazing sword for everything. It was a treat when he defeated This Week's Villain any...other...way...

Lion Voltron had some interesting worldbuilding though. It seemed as though there was some insinuation that Voltron had actually been self-aware at some point before he was split into the lions. If that wasn't the case, who were the original pilots? I was also glad that while Sven was taken off the team early on, he did make the occasional appearance afterward.

 

[Aragorn]

Part of me would like to have both series on disc. And part of me is well-aware that I'd probably watch each of them once, reminisce for a moment on how innocent a child I was, and then never watch them again.

The whole OG thing is on Roku if you don't mind ads.

 

[Noname Given]

The whole OG thing is on Roku if you don't mind ads.

And you can find he original Japanese version of Go Lion (which was what they used for Lion Voltron) with English Subtitles on Crunchyroll too.

 

[DonIago]

The whole OG thing is on Roku if you don't mind ads.

I'm not sure I want to trample all over that part of my childhood...

 

[korblborp]

Okay, to all of the Voltron fans in here, which "team" are you on: pro-cats, or pro-vehicles? I ask because in some social media circles, the pro-cat crowd seem to believe that end of the series was the Voltron, while others favored the more space-operatic version with the vehicles.

i didn't even know there WERE vehicles until i bought some comics in the oughts that incorporated them, so lion force; and the follow-on cg cartoon and Legendary Defender both stuck with lion force too...

cartoon network only played the lions during OG toonami, as far as i can remember, and i had't seen it before then. never did watch go lion when it and voltron were both on netflix, either... or the dairugger series, for that matter...

 

[StarTrek1701]

Transformers got their first movie 20 years ago, Voltron's coming out, but nobody gives a fuck about Macross/Robotech.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Transformers got their first movie 20 years ago, Voltron's coming out, but nobody gives a fuck about Macross/Robotech.

Mainly because very few Robotech fans think a movie will actually happen. It's been in Development Hell for 20 years, had a ton of writers and directors come and go, and it's still no closer to being actually made. A great deal of the Robotech fanbase has simply grown tired of waiting and moved on.

 

[Aragorn]

The vehicles are the reason the show got canceled.

 

[Skipper]

Just read a review of the original "Armored Fleet Dairugger XV." It looks like it was actually good?! (Obviously, we're not talking about the dumbed-down version for American audiences. )

(#MechaMarch2023) Armored Fleet Dairugger XV

A Second Voltron Series and Localization Stuff Yeah, this series immediately followed Beast King Go Lion which became Lion Voltron in the United States. Dairugger was localized in the west as Vehic…

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[tharpdevenport]

Robotech fans just need patience. Spaceballs fans -- by the time 2027 rolls around -- will have waited forty years for Spaceballs 2.

Star Trek fans waited almost a decade for a film.

"Samurai Jack" fans waited about thirteen years for a final season to tie the show up, that was never even expected to be done.

And more examples to be had.

 

[Noname Given]

Transformers got their first movie 20 years ago, Voltron's coming out, but nobody gives a fuck about Macross/Robotech.

Actually, it has quite a fan following, but Harmony Gold has held the U.S. rights with an iron grip to the point that for many decades they would allow NOTHING Macross related to come over to the states as there was a group thinking they could continue their version.

I think an agreement was reached to allow stuff a couple of years ago when the license renewal came up; and you have some Macross stuff available in the U.S. through Netflix now.

As for a live action film; it's been in development hell at Sony Pictures since 2015.

Sony Pictures plans to make Robotech into a live-action film franchise

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[C.E. Evans]

Robotech fans just need patience.

IMO, I suspect half the fanbase couldn't care less about a live-action movie. They would rather see a continuation of the original series, but since Harmony Gold decided to put all their eggs in one basket, it probably won't happen until the live-action movie happens. To some, the movie is one big albatross that's just been sitting around in the way since 2007.