Voltron Movie
by Evil Liv | Published on July 18th, 2007, 8:48 pm | Arts
Okay it's been proven that the eighties "can" be cool. Michael Bay did it with Transformers, so I'm wondering what about "my" childhood favorite: Barbie? You know? Robotic woman with cool weapons attached to the Barbie Porsche who saves the world?
Ok... that ain't going to happen and actually I was much more into GEM then Barbie.
But my other favorite might? Voltron. Yes for all you He-Man fans, all your GI-JOE freaks, you suck. Because Voltron was the coolest ever.
So I thought I'd look it up, and indeed... Voltron is coming to a screen near you in 2008. Let's just hope it's not too childish. Let's hope it's done justice. If it isn't, lets hope to God we can come beat the crap out of the director with the black lion, until he bleeds from the armpit.
What's interesting is many are suggesting this movie by J-J abrams which we saw before Transformers, (the alluded to Cloverfield movie) is actually Voltron. Now that would be interesting, but obviously too good to be true.
One blog claims the script is definitely a "post-apocalyptic movie". While this website claims to have read the script:
AN ENORMOUS METTALIC FOOT comes crashing down out of nowhere, crushing one of the soldiers in it’s wake. Where there was once a man, there’s now some kind of enormous robotic leg, stretching up higher and higher to reveal a colossal robotic form.
Fifty-feet tall, a horrible hybrid of metal parts, complete with some kind of awful face and glowing red eyes, staring down at them. We’re not sure if this is alien or man-made, but it’s terrifying.
Our gang makes it to the desert outskirts of a military compound after being chased by a Robeast.
Allura disappears into the compound with one of the blue keys, and reemerges in a giant machine in the shape of a colossal, 50 foot tall Lion, assembled entirely out of Earth bound parts. A C-130H tailgate has been used for the mouth, complete with traffic spikes for the teeth. The glass dome of an A6E Intruder cockpit has been soldered onto the head. All of this stands on top of four legs, refashioned from four construction excavator claws.
It’s called a LIONBOT. A hack-assembled masterpiece. A mech you can build in your backyard.
It’s safe to say that the lion-bot tears the Robeast’s head off and whups it’s ass.
Dozens of families are cheering behind them.
Pidge runs into a tool shed of some kind and see hundreds of sketches in varying languages, some schematic, some artistic, some downright incomprehensible. Hieroglyphic annotations. Translations from some ancient source. Heavy schematics. All of them depicting five lion-bots. One series depicts five lions merging together, re-configuring into a different from altogether. Like a step by step diagram of how they build a HUMANOID FIGURE. What’s more, the figure carries a sword.
The construction of the Mayan Pyramids, hundreds of years ago. And the Egyptian pyramids in Giza. Thousands of years ago. Five points connecting to the heavens. Notice a pattern? Five interlocking sequences completing a single unit. Five keys. We find out is that the histories of Planet Earth and Planet Arus have been linked for thousands of years.
The machines belong to an alien civilization that grows by consumption. The five keys were their life source. An energy so complex and so powerful that the keys exert their own free will. That brought them to Earth twelve thousand years ago. All that was built here on Earth, was built for the keys.
Buy all five pair and hope to god they form some kind of giant robot to protect you from the ass kicking you will no doubt receive. 
