‘GI Joe: Retaliation’ Director Jon M. Chu In Talks To Direct ‘Masters Of The Universe’

By the power of grayskull! Deadline is reporting that Jon M. Chu, the director of the troubled and delayed GI Joe: Retaliation, is in early talks to direct Masters of The Universe. The movie is set up at Sony Pictures and would be a live-action movie based on the Mattel toy-line  He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Escape Artists entertainment is signed on as producers and is said to have “a strong script turned in by the writing team of Alex Litvak and Mike Finch”. No other details are currently known, but I’m just hoping I get to see some Battle Cat and Orko this time around and that it’s better than 1987’s Dolph Lundgren version.

I think we all  (or at least any kid from the 80’s will) remember that version of Masters of The Universe. I’m sure some people try to forget that one still exists. I loved it as a kid but then again I was 4 years old when it came out so I didn’t know any better. I still love the movie, only now I love it for all the wrong reasons. It’s so bad that it’s good…although Frank Langella was pretty badass as Skeletor!