by Venkman on geektyrant.com

After Warner Bros. dropped the ball on ‘He-Man’ and the ‘Masters of the Universe’ Producer Joel Silver just couldn’t get it together, for one reason or another. So, Mattel took back the rights and sold them to Sony. Now that Sony has it they are going to start from scratch.

Sony and Escape Artists’ will now start developing ‘He-Man’ for Columbia Pictures. Unfortunately this producing team has developed some pretty bad films in the past. So it looks like this will be their first fantasy action film. Before the film was described as being as epic as ‘Lord of the Rings’.

John Stevenson was previously attached to direct the film, but if they are starting from scratch he may not be involved any longer. Justin Marks and Evan Daugherty both wrote great versions of the script for Warner Bros. The WB will retain the rights to those scripts, so Sony is going to have to find a new writer.

To read more HERE

Is it a good thing that it’s now at Sony Pictures? I’m not sure – somehow I also wish this would have worked out at Warner Bros. Everything seemed so promising. But now who knows what we are going to get from that team. What do you think – will it be okay with Sony?