It’s been a while since a big-budget adaptation last did this.
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The Hollywood Reporter shared the news, also stating the big-budget project will begin shooting this fall in Australia.
Though Quinn-Toye has no film credits so far, he’s appeared on television, getting credits on BBC Three’s Badults and one episode of Starz’s Outlander. Apparently, it was his stage work that landed the 21-year-old the role. He’s attended London’s Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts as well as the Dance School of Scotland, and was the main understudy to Tom Holland “in the West End production of Romeo & Juliet.” With that production, he played the role of Paris, a suitor to Juliet.
This is the sort of move that studios dared to do back in the day all the time, and has become rarer and rarer with each passing decade. Sure, star power helps sell risky and/or expensive projects, but you can save that for supporting roles and give young up-and-coming actors a chance to shine and surprise critics and audiences alike by starring in a massive blockbuster.
Voltron is based on the Japanese sci-fi series Beast King GoLion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. As a syndicated show, it was named Voltron: Defender of the Universe and was aired 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.”
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