GI Joe 2 director Jon Chu in talks to helm Masters of the Universe

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GI Joe 2 director Jon Chu in talks to helm Masters of the Universe

It’s been decades since the original Masters of the Universe live action movie and the franchise is still alive, so why not see what modern digital effects can do for He-Man. Apparently in talks to direct the new Masters of the Universe film is Jon Chu, whose most recent job was directing GI Joe: Retaliation.

Talks are just getting underway with Chu, who is in the middle of a 3D conversion on G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and is preparing to shoot a couple of new scenes for the film, which was pushed to a March 29, 2013 release by Paramount. The Masters film revolves around He-Man, a prince who transforms into a warrior and becomes the last hope for a magical world that has been ravaged by the sinister Skeletor.

The property has been around for years, as several studios tried to rectify the Cannon Films 1987 flopper that starred Dolph Lungdren as He-Man and Frank Langella as Skeletor. It has been more successful as an animated property. Escape Artists sparked to a strong script turned in by the writing team of Alex Litvak and Mike Finch. Litvak scripted The Three Musketeers and Five Against A Bullet, and Finch scripted Exclusively Yours. The scribes developed the script under the title Grayskull, but it has gone back to the Mattel brand.

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