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Mattel’s been making an attempt on and off for years to get a He-Man film off the bottom, with Amazon MGM pitching in to assist again in Could. Months Nicolas Galitzine lande the titular function, Riverdale star Camila Mendes has been added to play one among his key allies.
Per Deadline, the Riverdale alum will play Teela, a captain of the royal guard and shut buddy of He-Man’s alter-ego, Prince Adam. (And relying on the present, she finally turns into his love curiosity.) Within the 1987 movie, she was performed by Chelsea movie, and has been voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Melissa Benoist, and Kimberly Brooks within the more moderen animated exhibits. The Hollywood Reporter notes Mendes’ casting is pretty current, and he or she received the function towards Black Adam’s Quintessa Swindell, Barbie’s Alexandra Shipp, and Clara Rugaard (Black Mirror). It’s been a busy 2024 for Mendes: she’s starred in three films (and govt produced two of them), and likewise lately landed a lead function in Sony’s upcoming reboot of I Know What You Did Final Summer season.
Particulars on the upcoming movie—titled Masters of the Universe, identical to the ’87 film—are presently at nighttime. However the movie is alleged to take care of the overall idea of the sequence, whereby Adam of Eternia makes use of the Energy Sword to shapeshift into the heroic hunk and battle Skeletor and his armies of evil. Travis Knight, greatest recognized for Bumblebee and Laika’s Kubo & the Two Strings, will direct the image.
Masters of the Universe will launch in theaters on June 5, 2026.
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