Voltron forms again. Amazon-MGM Studios has confirmed that its upcoming live-action film Voltron will star in a young newcomer named Daniel Quinn-Towey.
The Hollywood Reporter shared the news, saying the big-budget project will begin filming in Australia this fall.
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Although Quinn-Towey has not appeared in any films so far, he has appeared on television, having an episode in BBC Three’s Badults and Starz’s Outlander. Apparently, it was his stage work that landed the 21-year-old the role. He studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Scottish Dance School, and was the principal understudy in Tom Holland’s West End production of Romeo and Juliet. In this work, he played the role of Paris, Juliet’s suitor.
This is a move the studio has been brave enough to make in the past, and has become increasingly rare over the past decade. Sure, star power helps sell risky and/or expensive projects, but you can leave that to supporting actors and give young, up-and-coming actors a chance to wow critics and audiences and give them a boost by starring in a blockbuster movie. Critics and audiences were pleasantly surprised.
Sitting in the director’s chair is Rawson Marshall Thurber, the man behind the Netflix hit Red Notice (though you can ask around, most people won’t remember it), which stars Dwayne Johnson , Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot starring. Amazon’s Voltron project has been in the works for some time, but it didn’t get off the ground until early 2022. Mei Cinema.
“Voltron” is adapted from the Japanese science fiction series “Beast King GoLion” and “Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV”. As a syndicated show, it was titled Voltron: Defenders of the Universe and aired in the mid-1980s. “The story centers on five young pilots from a battalion called the Robot Lions, vehicles that come together to form a giant robot called Voltron.”
Over the years, more shows have been produced and aired regularly, and the live-action movie was a tentative project that was proposed again and again without much success, so this adaptation (similar in many ways to Amazon’s upcoming film , after much trouble, about Masters of the Universe) was a long time coming.
