Deadline reports that director John M. Chu has entered talks to direct a live action adaptation of
Masters Of The Universe for Sony Pictures and Escape Artists. He is currently hard at work on the 3D conversion of his latest picture,
G.I. Joe: Retaliation. That film was originally set to be released last month before being pushed back to March 29th, 2013. The site reports that it will revolve 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." Alex Litvak (
The Three Musketeers) and Mike Finch (
Exclusively Yours penned the script under the title
Grayskull, although Mattel - the toy company who own the brand that the film will be based on - are now said to be revising it.
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