Live-Action Voltron Movie Casts Daniel Quinn-Toye to Film This Fall – News

Live-Action Voltron Movie Casts Daniel Quinn-Toye to Film This Fall – News

Hollywood Reporter: Red Notice’s Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing the film’s Australian shoot

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Entertainment news source The Hollywood Reporter posted on Wednesday that Amazon MGM Studios is pushing live action Voltron project (which calls it a feature film) and has cast Daniel Quinn-Toye as the lead. Quinn-Toye acted as Tom Holland‘s understudy and as Paris in the West End production of Romeo and Juliet last spring. Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice, We’re the Millers, Central Intelligence, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) is directing the film, which will begin shooting in Australia this fall. The Hollywood Reporter noted that the project is still auditioning for a female lead.

Amazon was in talks for live-action rights Voltron in 2022, by the way Warner Bros.Universal and several other studios.

Thurber is also co-writing the screenplay with Ellen Shanman and producing the project with Todd Lieberman of Hidden Pictures and David Hoberman of Hobie Films (Beauty and the Beast 2017) and World Events Productions’ Bob Koplar (Voltron: Legendary Defender).

World Events Productions, Ltd. (WEP) and the late Peter O’Keefe adapted the first in 1984-1985 Voltron TV series of two Toei animation Robot anime: King of the beasts Golion And Tank fleet Dairugger XV. Both Golion and the first Voltron The story revolves around young pilots who fight 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 spawned three television series produced outside Japan: the 3D-CG Voltron: The Third Dimension In 1998 the 2D Voltron force in 2011 and DreamWorks And Netflix‘S Voltron: Legendary Defender in 2016.

The eighth and final season of the Voltron: Legendary Defender The animated series premiered on Netflix in December 2018. Netflix streams 12 episodes of the original Voltron Series under the title Voltron 84.

The Hollywood Reporter had reported that Netflix is not one of the companies applying for the upcoming live-action film project.

The studios had previously attempted to develop a Hollywood live-action project for the film franchise 2007 and then 2012, but neither project progressed.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter (Bory’s Kit)