Amazon MGM Studios’ giant robot
Voltron movie is getting a man of steel.
Henry Cavill, the Superman actor and star of
The Witcher, has come aboard to topline in the live-action feature based on the mecha anime that Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing.
The actor joins Daniel Quinn-Toye,
the newcomer who impressed the studio and director with his West End work opposite Tom Holland, in leading the roll call.
Voltron is based on the Japanese sci-fi series
Beast King GoLion and
Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. World Events edited and dubbed the series as a syndicated show, naming it
Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which ran in the mid-1980s. The premise centered on five young pilots in a battalion named the Robot Lions, which are vehicles that join together to form a mega-robot known as Voltron.
The plot details for the new version is unclear. Thurber wrote the script with Ellen Shanman.
