Update: March 28, 2013
Jon Chu Says MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Won't Be Campy
Jon M. Chu: "We're still in the beginning stages, designing a ton, and this is sort of the most fun phase, because we get to do a bunch of different designs of the world, and the costumes, and make a lot of mistakes, as much as we can, so we know where we shouldn't go, and where we should be headed, in terms of the tone and the look of the movie."
"We're going for slightly more serious, and I wouldn't say "serious" as a dark tone you don't necessarily want He-Man to be in, but it's not campy. We're not going campy. It's sort of an origin story of how He-Man came to be, and to me that gives you a lot of opportunity to create real culture in this world. What is Eternia really like, what are the cultures, what are the languages they're speaking, what are Snake Men, what are Beast Men, what are all these things, and how do they exist in this world? So we're taking a real look at creating life on this planet, on this world, that hopefully will translate."
"And again, we're in a very early designing phase of it, the script is great, but we're still very early at figuring out exactly how theatrical we go, and how real we go, and how dark we can take it. It's a little too early to tell [on how they'll cast the dual roles of He-Man and Prince Adam]. We're playing with the technique of how we'll actually pull that off."
Jon M. Chu Assures Fans MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Reboot Won't Be Campy
