Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Tuesday that Amazon is “in talks” for the rights to a live-action Voltron project. Warner Bros., Universal, and several other studios were also bidding for the live-action project rights late last month.
Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice) would co-write the script with Ellen Shanman, and Thurber would also direct. Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman (Beauty and the Beast 2017), and World Events Productions’ Bob Koplar (Voltron: Legendary Defender) would produce the project.
World Events Productions, Ltd. (WEP) and the late Peter O’Keefe adapted the first 1984-1985 Voltron television series from two Toei Animation robot anime: King of Beasts Golion and 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…
