"Relativity Media has option the feature film rights to Voltron from World Event Prods. and is planning a live-action, big-screen version of the 1984 animated series 'Voltron: Defender of the Universe'. Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Richard Suckle, who brought the project to Relativity, will oversee its transition to the screen. Thomas Dean Donnelly (Conan the Barbarian) and Joshua Oppenheimer (Sahara) are writing the screenplay about five young pilots in a battalion of ultra-high-tech Robot Lions, powerful vessels with the ability to join together to form a fearsome mega-weapon known as “Voltron.”
The original series was based on the Japanese anime properties Beast King GoLion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV and aired in the United States for two years, beginning in 1984. Since then, it’s developed a cult following, selling more than 300,000 DVDs and spinning off the series Voltron Force on NickToons."
SEE: The Hollywood Reporter
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