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Universal Inherits DreamWorks' Live-Action Voltron Project With David Hayter Writing
posted on by Egan Loo
The entertainment news website Deadline reported on Friday that NBCUniversal's recent David Hayter, the co-writer of the live-action X-Men and Watchmen films and the English voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games, is writing a script for the project.
According to Deadline, the project is still in development, and Universal will make decisions on the project when it gets a script draft.
Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. Both Golion and the first Voltron story centered on 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 combined series three decades ago, the franchise spawned three series produced outside Japan: the 3D CG January 20.
The titular robot also appeared in several commercials, including Robotech.
New Regency, a Kazuo Nakamura "may possess rights" related to Golion and thus the first Voltron series.
At the time that New Regency dropped the project in 2008, the Variety entertainment news source announced in 2011 that Relativity Media optioned the rights to make a live-action film adaptation with Atlus Productions.
Beast King GoLion anime on DVD in 2008.
